We performed a comparison between Cradlepoint NetCloud and Steelhead based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of this solution is the automatic failover."
"Cradlepoint NetCloud is very stable."
"It is easy to set up and requires a single administrator to maintain it."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"The most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities."
"Scalable data referencing is a great feature."
"It is very easy to install the solution."
"TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily."
"SteelHead works from the application. I use it to optimize traffic from Amazon. It is mainly used for customers who need to increase the traffic to 33K. For other users, it has been more of an operation."
"The compression of Riverbed is very powerful. It can also handle large quantities of traffic."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"In our situation, the initial setup was complex."
"It is missing important settings options."
"The performance of group-based clouds should be enhanced."
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"The application response time of the solution can be improved."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
"Steelhead's handling of encrypted traffic could be improved because it requires some complex configuration to optimize encrypted traffic, especially when working with Microsoft protocols for mail servers and VPN services"
"The solution needs to have alert notifications."
"I would like to see improvement in the solution’s configuration and protocol aspects. We have got some configurations that are not set. I would also like to simplify the call detection of some protocols."
"Application response time and network performance could be improved."
"If we load a primary firewall, the secondary firewall usually handles all the active connections, but in Riverbed, this isn't the case. We lose all the active connections at the moment of failure."
Cradlepoint NetCloud is ranked 18th in WAN Edge with 3 reviews while Steelhead is ranked 15th in WAN Edge with 22 reviews. Cradlepoint NetCloud is rated 7.0, while Steelhead is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cradlepoint NetCloud writes "Simple to install and reliable, but technical support should improve their response time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Exceptionally stable and reliable but costly". Cradlepoint NetCloud is most compared with Peplink SpeedFusion, Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco SD-WAN and VMware SD-WAN, whereas Steelhead is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, WAAS, Citrix SD-WAN and Noction IRP. See our Cradlepoint NetCloud vs. Steelhead report.
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