Riverbed Steelhead vs. Versa FlexVNF Comparison

Riverbed Steelhead

Versa FlexVNF

Riverbed Steelhead

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4,052 views|3,211 comparisons

Versa FlexVNF

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5,931 views|4,824 comparisons

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Nemo Lin

Directior of product line at China Telecom Global

Can easily be scanned or installed in a virtual environment and has good stability

Versa FlexVNF helps customer uses existing infrastructure to quickly complete the SD-WAN deployment through software appliance. Except for the edge... Read more »

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Pros
"TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily." More Riverbed Steelhead Pros »	"Our organization finds the application routing features extremely useful.""Overall, it's nice and very user friendly. That's what makes it so successful. They give you complicated features but with a very simple user interface, and that's been a big success for them.""The most valuable aspects of the solution are the next-generation firewall features and geo-blocking capabilities.""Their dashboard is also a good point for us and the customer. The solution is very clean and easy." More Versa FlexVNF Pros »
Cons
"Application response time and network performance could be improved." More Riverbed Steelhead Cons »	"The UTM features can be improved. It should offer better functionality.""We are thinking about how to make customers consolidate the loads to an SD-WAN network so that the customers can have bigger chunk from the SD-WAN side so that customers can have critical data be transferred with NPS VPN and non-critical data or some labeled traffic can be transferred by the SD-WAN network. I think it's a very important direction for digital transformation.""The support needs to be improved.""The smaller units lack a lot of functionality.""Another thing that should be improved in Versa are their firewall features." More Versa FlexVNF Cons »

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Information Not Available	"The price is expensive but it makes sense for the market." More Versa FlexVNF Pricing and Cost Advice »

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Questions from the Community
What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises? Top Answer: We just did an assessment for our 47 datacenters around North America. The top two enterprise-level network monitoring solutions were ExtraHop first, Riverbed SteelCenter second. Their negotiated cost… more » Read all 15 answers What do you like most about Riverbed Steelhead? Top Answer: TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily. What needs improvement with Riverbed Steelhead? Top Answer: Application response time and network performance could be improved. Allot, an Israel-based organization, is offering DDoS attack prevention, not mitigation but prevention; threat response. If… more »	What do you like most about Versa FlexVNF? Top Answer: Our organization finds the application routing features extremely useful. What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Versa FlexVNF? Top Answer: The price is consist of several aspects but it makes sense for the market. For the SD-WAN solution, it's not just the pricing for accreditations from the solution side. We need to combine the hardware… more » What needs improvement with Versa FlexVNF? Top Answer: We need to think about how to leverage the MPLS-VPN customers, so to integrate the SD-WAN network. We are thinking about how to make customers consolidate the loads to an SD-WAN network so that the… more » Read all 2 answers
Ranking
14th out of 24 in WAN Edge Views 4,052 Comparisons 3,211 Reviews 0 Average Words per Review 830 Rating N/A	4th out of 24 in WAN Edge Views 5,931 Comparisons 4,824 Reviews 5 Average Words per Review 1,001 Rating 8.0
Popular Comparisons
WAAS vs. Riverbed Steelhead Compared 33% of the time. Citrix SD-WAN vs. Riverbed Steelhead Compared 13% of the time. Silver Peak NX vs. Riverbed Steelhead Compared 12% of the time. Ipanema IpIengine vs. Riverbed Steelhead Compared 11% of the time. Noction IRP vs. Riverbed Steelhead Compared 2% of the time. See more Riverbed Steelhead competitors » + Add more products to compare	Cisco SD-WAN vs. Versa FlexVNF Compared 30% of the time. VeloCloud vs. Versa FlexVNF Compared 28% of the time. Meraki SD-WAN vs. Versa FlexVNF Compared 11% of the time. Fortinet FortiGate vs. Versa FlexVNF Compared 10% of the time. See more Versa FlexVNF competitors » + Add more products to compare
Also Known As
RIverbed Steelhead, Steelhead	FlexVNF
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Overview
Riverbed SteelHead is the industry's #1 optimization solution for accelerated delivery of all applications across the hybrid enterprise. SteelHead also provides better visibility into application and network performance and the end user experience plus control through an application-aware approach to hybrid networking and path selection based on centralized, business intent-based policies for what you want to achieve as a business.	Versa FlexVNF is a multi-service, multi-tenant software platform built from ground up on cloud principles to deliver scale, segmentation, programmability and automation. It provides both networking and security functions in a single software along with service chaining capabilities.
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Sample Customers
Orasure Technologies, Energia Communications Inc., GHD, JLL, Northwest Pipe, Dudek & Associates, Lathrop & Gage, Carilion Clinic	CenturyLink, RCN Business, Colt Technology Services
Top Industries
REVIEWERS Government25% Energy/Utilities Company25% Construction Company8% Media Company8% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Comms Service Provider26% Computer Software Company26% Real Estate/Law Firm6% Financial Services Firm5%	VISITORS READING REVIEWS Comms Service Provider39% Computer Software Company19% Manufacturing Company6% Educational Organization4%
Company Size
REVIEWERS Small Business8% Midsize Enterprise15% Large Enterprise77%	No Data Available

Riverbed Steelhead is ranked 14th in WAN Edge with 1 review while Versa FlexVNF is ranked 4th in WAN Edge with 5 reviews. Riverbed Steelhead is rated 0.0, while Versa FlexVNF is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Riverbed Steelhead writes "Scalable Data Referencing provides LAN-like speed over WAN". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa FlexVNF writes "Excellent integration capabilities, good UI and offers great security features". Riverbed Steelhead is most compared with WAAS, Citrix SD-WAN, Silver Peak NX, Ipanema IpIengine and Noction IRP, whereas Versa FlexVNF is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VeloCloud, Meraki SD-WAN and Fortinet FortiGate.

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