We performed a comparison between Steelhead and VMware SD-WAN 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."TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily."
"The most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"Scalable data referencing is a great feature."
"The compression of Riverbed is very powerful. It can also handle large quantities of traffic."
"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."
"It is very easy to install the solution."
"Proactively detects where problems might arise."
"I find the application-aware routing feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable features are the orchestration layer, plug and play capabilities, and also the fact that you can either configure it as a full mesh or hard install."
"It is very simple to configure. When you use the cloud to configure the equipment, it has zero-touch provisioning."
"I love the solution because of its many features like cluster and cloud VPN."
"Increases the performance of applications and is easy to deploy."
"When we upgrade to one of the edges, it goes very smoothly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is manageability."
"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."
"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"
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"The application response time of the solution can be improved."
"Application response time and network performance could be improved."
"The product should offer more integration capabilities."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
"In the future, we would like to have more capacity using this solution as there are limitations on the VCE. For example, only 50 tunnels can be supported currently but we would like to have 200 tunnels using the VeloCloud VCE device."
"Some of the service providers that use VeloCloud as their SD-WAN should be enabled to have better global visibility."
"There are a number of customers we have that require a fully mashed SD-WAN on VeloCloud that is not available currently."
"In an upcoming release, they should allow customers the flexibility to use mobile applications where they can go and check on the information about their networks. A lot of vendors, such as Meraki, have a lot more integration with the use of portals to a mobile application. Having this feature as an alternative to logging into a laptop would be beneficial. If you are a SaaS-based company why not make a mobile application as well. You might not be able to do configurations but at least monitor while away or on vacation."
"The cost of VeloCloud could be lowered."
"The solution is pricey. It could be cheaper."
"The cost is a little bit high."
"I would like for them to upgrade to 5G integration. Our customers have 4G now and the connectivity isn't good. It should be much faster."
Steelhead is ranked 15th in WAN Edge with 22 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 3rd in WAN Edge with 50 reviews. Steelhead is rated 8.2, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Exceptionally stable and reliable but costly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Steelhead is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, WAAS, Citrix SD-WAN and Noction IRP, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Steelhead vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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