Riverbed SteelConnect Reviews

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 17 2020

Analytics feature is very granular and comprehensive, although complicated to use

What is most valuable?

The analytics is the most valuable feature because it was very granular and very comprehensive, although a little complicated to use. If you're really interested in knowing what's happening on your network, it's a very good solution. That was the .NET Profiler part of the solution.

What needs improvement?

The routing scalability needs improvement. We have run into a lot of limitations and also primarily from a routine perspective, things like RSPs line support. It was supportive but not really supportive.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

You have to pay more if you want the analytics part and for the licenses for the Flow Gateway .NET Profiler.

What other advice do I have?

It's like an SD-WAN project basically. You really need to make sure that the product matches the needs of what the customer's trying to achieve and their overall strategy to meet their core business requirements. I think a certain customer made a mistake in choosing this solution because a large… more»

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What is Riverbed SteelConnect?

Riverbed SteelConnect is the cornerstone of Riverbed’s strategy for next-generation, application-defined enterprise networking. SteelConnect is a complete SD-WAN system for securely connecting users and the business to the applications they need, wherever they reside—on a remote LAN, in a data center, or in the cloud.

SteelConnect offers several differentiators—ubiquitous and unified connectivity across LAN, WAN and the Cloud; business aligned orchestration for fast, agile, and secure application delivery; and unique cloud-centric workflow, easy menu-driven network design of sites, zones, uplinks, and rules, and centralized, business intent-based policy management—all within a simple graphical user interface—for ease of use and greater business agility.

Riverbed SteelConnect customers

SimplePay, GHD, OpenEye Scientific