Steelhead Scalability

Chaudhary Muhammad Moez Manzar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at Arwen Tech

Steelhead is quite scalable. If a customer wants to add another site, like opening a new branch office in a third city, it is a straightforward process. You just need one more box with the necessary license. Setting it up involves creating two rules - one in the existing HQ device and another in the new remote office. This scalability makes it easy to expand the network without significant issues.

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it_user408528 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Technical Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees

None, the licenses were easy to deploy to upgrade and new appliances were just a drop in replacement. We scaled this up from an initial PoC to a fully fledged production appliance without any issues.

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Djurre Woudstra - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a legal firm with 201-500 employees

The scalability is not the best. If you find that you have outgrown the capacity of your appliance you are forced to repurchase the license and the appliance with very little discount even if your appliance is still under contract.

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it_user413427 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There have been no issues it scaling it for our need.

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Akhilesh Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at M.Tech

The solution is scalable, I've deployed it for more than 20,000 users.

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JO
Network Support Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees

Currently what we have in the system can not support the software-defined networks, so I won't say it's scalable. However, newer iterations might be.

We currently have about 2,000 users on the solution.

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it_user410316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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it_user153501 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user403923 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a construction company with 51-200 employees

I did not deal much with scaling as the network didn't grow while I was there, but we did have the Riverbed CMC (I believe is the acronym - central management console?) Having this would have made scaling easy, I assume.

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it_user413271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues with the scalability.

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it_user421521 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a government

We have had no issues

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it_user426486 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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

It is easily scalable. I have implemented it in SMBs and in enterprise-level companies.

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it_user421560 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues scaling it for our needs.

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it_user146331 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Operations Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user421635 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Infrastructure and Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The device mostly comes with a standard configuration with no options to upgrade the hardware. This means that we need to go ahead with a new or high end model in case the infra changes happen.

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it_user413307 - PeerSpot reviewer
Validation Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues with scaling it for our needs.

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it_user421509 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Administrator at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

We had issues upgrading when we wanted to scale.

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Steelhead
March 2024
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