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Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued) vs. SonicWall WXA 5000

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    Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASilver Peak's WAN Optimization brand and appliances were discontinued after the company's acquisition in 2020 by HPE. Similar capabilities are supplied now under HPE's Aruba brand.N/A

    SonicWall WXA 5000

    N/AN/ASonicWall WXA 5000 is a WAN optimization appliance.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)SonicWall WXA 5000
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    Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)SonicWall WXA 5000
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    This is well suited when you need to deploy a virtual router to provide SD-WAN services across multiple sites. This works great for small businesses since they added firewall services. The price and feature set are also great for mid-sized enterprises due to the ability to manage multiple appliances with templates, central reporting, and ability to provide high availability of the appliances with VRRP.
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    Pros
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    • WAN Acceleration.
    • Improves application performance.
    • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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    Cons
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    • Managing more and more routers can add complexity with templates.
    • Documentation around internal routing protocol they use is confusing.
    • Boost add-on was oversold by pre-sales team and not helpful during testing.
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    They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    We currently have almost all Cisco Meraki and would have loved to keep the product portfolio the same. Silver Peak was far cheaper and offered far more features. A lot of our evaluation showed that NGFW offers SD-WAN but it is not a full-featured deployment. Silver Peak is by and large better at being able to use both links at once, offer failover, QoS, and central reporting.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Able to get rid of MPLS
    • No more router hardware costs
    • Able to use both WAN links instead of one being only failover
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