We performed a comparison between Nuage Networks and Steelhead based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Fortinet, Cisco, VMware and others in WAN Edge."It is stable and reliable."
"It has good reporting and analytics, that most people can understand without too much difficulty."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is network management. The customer is able to manage their network from home or we can also manage the whole customer network."
"It is very easy to install the solution."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities."
"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."
"TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"Security is an area that could use some work."
"The setup can be complex."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"The solution needs to have alert notifications."
"The application response time of the solution can be improved."
"The product should offer more integration capabilities."
"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."
"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"
"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."
Nuage Networks is ranked 19th in WAN Edge with 4 reviews while Steelhead is ranked 15th in WAN Edge with 22 reviews. Nuage Networks is rated 8.8, while Steelhead is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Nuage Networks writes "Easy to use features, good support, and has the ability to maintain a session when you lose an uplink". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Exceptionally stable and reliable but costly". Nuage Networks is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiGate and VMware SD-WAN, whereas Steelhead is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, WAAS, Citrix SD-WAN and Noction IRP.
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