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Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Alternatives

5.0(5 Ratings)
WAN Optimization

Considering alternatives to Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)? See what this market Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 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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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. Blue Coat PacketShaper

By Broadcom

4.3
(6 Ratings)

We have implemented the BlueCoat Packet Shaper 4 month ago in our organization. Our overall experience on average. Not bad or not more good also. First is we are not able to create any user, auto generated report is showing volume (application usage data amount) it should be bandwidth. When we create manual report then its only graph based report so any non technical person (management level) will not understand that.

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Top Alternatives to Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)

  • SteelHead
  • Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Service Router with Application Experience (ISR-AX)
  • Cisco ISR G2
  • Fatpipe WAN optimization
  • CloudBridge (Legacy)
  • Network Orchestrator
  • Sangfor WANO
  • Blue Coat PacketShaper
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