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Blue Coat PacketShaper Alternatives

4.3(6 Ratings)
WAN Optimization

Considering alternatives to Blue Coat PacketShaper? See what this market Blue Coat PacketShaper users also considered in their purchasing decision. When evaluating different solutions, potential buyers compare competencies in categories such as evaluation and contracting, integration and deployment, service and support, and specific product capabilities.

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1. SteelHead

By Riverbed

4.5
(60 Ratings)

Easy to deploy, impressive results with little need to fine tune.

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2. Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Service Router with Application Experience (ISR-AX)

By Cisco Systems

4.3
(41 Ratings)

We bought a VG420 for one of our newly constructed buildings and Cisco sent us a box packed VG420 which is supposed to be tested and checked before sending to the customer. We we try to configure and tried to use it through us dsp heartbeat timeout errors.

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3. Cisco ISR G2

By Cisco Systems

4.9
(26 Ratings)

We use Cisco ISR's for MPLS cloud backhaul for our Data Centers and Cisco is Rock Solid.

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4. Fatpipe WAN optimization

By FatPipe Networks

4.1
(18 Ratings)

Excellent WAN optimization and Load balancing solutions in the market.

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5. CloudBridge (Legacy)

By Citrix

4.1
(10 Ratings)

Improve the virtual desktop experience to branch-offce and mobile users or accelerate traditional enterprise applications

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Where Blue Coat PacketShaper Scored Higher

  • Easier to integrate and deploy
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6. Network Orchestrator

By Exinda

4.6
(7 Ratings)

Very good QoS feature compare to other similar products. Easy to deploy. Mostly preferred is Virtual Appliance because of configuration pre-requisites which are easily manageable.

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7. Sangfor WANO

By Sangfor Technologies

5
(6 Ratings)

Overall a good product, but it needs to be improved more in few fields.

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8. Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)

By Cisco Systems

5
(5 Ratings)

I had a very positive experience with Cisco WAAS. It is a very good platform for optimising your ISP and your bandwidth usage. Cisco has always been known for its network optimising solutions, but this is one of the best products on the market. Policies can be defined not only on the basis of IP addresses but on the basis of applications as well like Teams, Zoom etc where you need proper bandwidth without any lag. Overall, it is a must product and I am very happy to have it.

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Where Blue Coat PacketShaper Scored Higher

  • Easier to integrate and deploy
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Top Alternatives to Blue Coat PacketShaper

  • SteelHead
  • Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Service Router with Application Experience (ISR-AX)
  • Cisco ISR G2
  • Fatpipe WAN optimization
  • CloudBridge (Legacy)
  • Network Orchestrator
  • Sangfor WANO
  • Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
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