We performed a comparison between Huawei Enterprise Routers 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."Overall we have found the solution to be satisfactory."
"I use the product to connect to various access points to extend my network."
"There is a lot of information available about routers and how to configure Huawei Routers right now."
"The most valuable features for us are NAT, ATS, server capabilities, VPN tunneling, and management."
"The product is easy to improve and deploy in terms of configuration for engineers and technical executives."
"We use the solution for point-to-point connectivity, aggregation, and radio connectivity on mTLS."
"The product has valuable support services."
"The scalability is good."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"It is very easy to install the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities."
"TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily."
"Scalable data referencing is a great feature."
"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."
"Steelhead is stable, and it can even help you avoid service interruption in the event of a power outage. If your hardware fails, technical support will replace your device quickly."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see better bandwidth management, more granular web filtering, and portal authentication."
"The product’s performance could be better."
"Syntax in the implementation process could be easier to understand for a new user or someone who doesn’t have prior experience using the product."
"Essentially, they need to open their licensing model such that when a customer buys a device, they have a full view of all of the available licenses for it."
"They should include features like IPS for security and response."
"There is not much of a technical team for Huawei available in Pakistan as compared to Cisco with respect to very complex networks."
"It would be better if local storage management was more flexible, so that unused data could be easily removed."
"We have found we have to restart the routers or reconfigured them a lot of the time, this issue should improve. The quality of the hardware needs to be more durable."
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"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 application response time of the solution can be improved."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
"The solution needs to have alert notifications."
"The product should offer more integration capabilities."
"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."
"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."
Huawei Enterprise Routers is ranked 8th in WAN Edge with 23 reviews while Steelhead is ranked 15th in WAN Edge with 22 reviews. Huawei Enterprise Routers is rated 7.8, while Steelhead is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei Enterprise Routers writes "A stable and easy-to-manage solution with good security and firewalls". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Exceptionally stable and reliable but costly". Huawei Enterprise Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Cisco Enterprise Routers, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco SD-WAN and Juniper MX Series Routers, whereas Steelhead is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, WAAS, Citrix SD-WAN and Noction IRP. See our Huawei Enterprise Routers vs. Steelhead report.
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