Exinda Initial Setup

EH
Director of Network Services at a university with 201-500 employees

This solution was already in place when I took it. There was already a lot there. 

Its updates are really straightforward and managing it is also really straightforward and simple. I have really no complaints there. The only thing that you really have to do is rack it, connect it, and do the setup. Outside of that, there is creating the policies, which is really straightforward.

If I have a new appliance, I can unboxed it and set it up. then be up and running in a day. It is pretty straightforward. As you go, you watch the traffic and build policies around what you see. 

Virtually no staff is required for day-to-day maintenance. Now and then, I'll look in there, and I'll say, "Oh, yeah. Well, there's an update." So, I plan now around after hours to install updates because I will need to reboot the thing. Aside from that, there's not really a whole lot of maintenance on the appliance itself. It's more just watching the policies, e.g., you can watch a real-time monitor. 

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it_user143976 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer & Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Straightforward is one of the things that Exinda does very well. In addition to wizards, there is onboard context sensitive help. There is also built in intelligence. Exinda will suggest policies based on traffic patterns and current usage.

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MJ
Senior Engineer, Team Lead, Network Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The setup is straightforward now, because we've put a script into the Exinda. So we just dump the config into the Exinda and it pretty much configures most of the stuff for us. But that's because we've put that effort into making it work fast. It's faster to configure an Exinda than, say, a XipLink or a Riverbed, in my opinion. And once you get it scripted, it makes things a lot easier.

To deploy the first one, before we had it scripted, it took us about a month. Now, with the script, it takes about 30 minutes. It only takes one person to deploy it. 

The script itself is just a basic satellite config. It has some basic satellite rules. It uses one-way shaping traffic. It does things like that for our network. It uses our DNS servers and all of that information, so we don't have to double-handle things and type everything in twice.

In terms of deployment and maintenance, we have a number of people who are all trained in different things. We have field techs who are trained in deployment and we have support engineers who are trained to support it. Overall, about 20 people are involved.

The number of end-users varies, because we have an island that uses. At one point there were 60,000 people on one island. And then there are cruise boats that can have 20,000 people. The total number of users might be close to 100,000.

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GL
Head of Networks at a recruiting/HR firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The setup is very straightforward. It's literally just plug-and-play. That is one of its key benefits. You just plug it in, in-line, and it works. It doesn't require any other network configuration to get it working, apart from the management connection. It's pretty simple.

Our original deployment took a couple of hours.

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DM
Associate Director at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. We worked on it for about a day.

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DL
Sales Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It is pretty easy to set up but sometimes companies require more complex setups. Exinda is an optimization solution and it has a lot of features for that but I'm not so familiar with them. It can be complex to deploy but only because of the customer's needs. 

The setup will take a minimum of an hour. You need that time to configure it and set up the default settings. 

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BD
Network Engineer at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Straightforward everything was spelled out and easy to figure out.

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it_user140670 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Support -Security at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Yes, the details of the shaping setup was referenced by another Exinda shaper we had on site. View full review »
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