# WAN Optimization Reviews **Vendor:** Cisco **Category:** [WAN Optimization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/wan-optimization) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About WAN Optimization Accelerate your applications and optimize quality of experience for your users. ## WAN Optimization Reviews ### 1. Improves Network Performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shoeb a. | Junior Network Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** It helps to overcome Latency and minimize packet loss and will also increase network throughput. Virtualization of the network is also done when WAN optimizing. **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** It will take really high costs when setting up of WAN, there will also be security issues as it is a wide area network. And also there will be lot of maintanance issues. **Recommendations to others considering WAN Optimization:** Yes i would like to recommend this for other organizations which are having large environment. we can manage and setup the environment from one place and the configuration can be pushed to the device based on the profiles created. Also the managing the network issues would be easily done based on the automated process defined. **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** we can prioritize intended traffic on WAN itself and also we can diversify the routes. Also we can analyze the traffic based on sources and patterns. Issues will be autoresolved based on our configuration. ### 2. Amazing architectural solution. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Basudev K. | Associate Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** The best thing about cisco is its security and the tools and techniques provided by cisco to deliver the service. And amazing server optimisation and the added advantage is secure VPN. **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** Its complicated structure cannot be understood easily and require a trained workforce to handle it. And getting a CISCO WAN trained specialist is quite a tiresome job. So if cisco can provide any KT regarding every technology it will be helpful. **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building services for end-user for their specific requirement, and building solutions for the organisation as well. And used to secure the network without compromising the performance. ### 3. Cisco Wan optimization solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nilkanth P. | Sr Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2022 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** It help to improve throughout and priority for most valuable application, bandwidth optimization, reduced latency **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** Nothing as such as dislike about wan optimization **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Latency reduction and improve throughput applications performance ### 4. Speedy Connection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** Cisco makes quality systems and provides great results. Our network at the office is excellent, and rarely are there any connectivity issues. Highly recommended brand and products **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** My only critique of Cisco is the subscription services they pair with some of their hardware, when it shouldn't be needed. Other than that they are top notch in my opinion. **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our network is organized, fast, and reliable. If we were to have the opposite it would cause us to have problems daily. Thankfully there are products that can smooth out things like wireless networks ### 5. Cisco WAN Optimization is very Effective **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** Its performance and TCP Optimization Mechanisms it uses to enhance WAN traffic. **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** The solution sometimes is costly and complicated in some scenarios, hard to maintain and troubleshoot. **Recommendations to others considering WAN Optimization:** As a consultant, we advise our customers to go with Cisco SD-WAN as this feature plus other added features exists by default. Still, for some old traditional WAN Customers, we advise them to go with Cisco WAAS. **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the low bandwidth WAN links, enhancing the performance and speed of WAN traffic. ### 6. Cisco SD Wan review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yasir I. | Principal Network Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** Granularity and Details from the outputs **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** Rather complex than competitors. Need to knee in depth technology **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Brown outs and resiliency ### 7. Cisco wan opt review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** It is very helpfull for overcoming of latency,packet loss and increase the throughput **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** O dont like the licensing model. I dislike having to buy term based de support. **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did not faced a big problem. But olur network application experience has increased via Wan opt. ### 8. Excellent application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amyia_ M. | Medical Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2021 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** System operation used for daily work and safety **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** At time it can run slow, but that could be due to the amount of users **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/a ### 9. SDWAN solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** Easy of use and the user interface. All graphs and dashboards are simplified and helpfull. **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** The installation process is too complicated and takes a long time. **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Optimizing the WAN infrastructure is more and more important for all applications we are using.We increased our productivity by 20% ### 10. The product is very stable and works well" **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2021 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** All graphs and dashboards are simplified and helpfull &Traffic Shaping and Data Caching. **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** The solution sometimes is costly and complicated in some scenarios. **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Excellent monitoring capabilities of live devices to track usage and map traffic. ### 11. Efficient way to allocate traffic for critical applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2021 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** Traffic Shaping and Data Caching . No monopolizing of traffic by one or few applications **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** WAN Optimazation improves individual connection . To make an significant impact would have to be coupled with SD-WAN **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring all traffic classes get oportunities to send data ### 12. Quality of service for the management of the priority of the data. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Susan J. | Information Technology Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2019 **What do you like best about WAN Optimization?** We use all the CISCO equipment for routers, firewalls and switches. IBM provides all of our management needs, as well as the hosting of our servers in their data centers. **What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?** Consolidate the functions of the sd-wan + voice gateway in the same hardware. The voice gateway is a key feature for us, as well as for sd-wan. Reduce the cost of the solution. Sometimes the business is not strong enough to invest in it, which breaks our strategy. **Recommendations to others considering WAN Optimization:** The bands that support a lot of traffic allow excellent use by visitors. **What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Excellent monitoring capabilities to track usage and map traffic. ## WAN Optimization Discussions - [What is functionality of Riverbed SteelHead solution?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/wan-optimization-what-is-functionality-of-riverbed-steelhead-solution) - [How do I optimize WAN bandwidth?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-optimize-wan-bandwidth) - [Why do we need WAN optimization?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-do-we-need-wan-optimization) - [What does WAN optimization do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-wan-optimization-do) - [View WAN Optimization pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/wan-optimization/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-04+10%3A21%3A26+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=187ea662-0921-447c-86c8-4e70dfc62b11&secure%5Btoken%5D=ff941e3132e3c5c60423c4976974b5da77d9f82a1de4724ba754b38f9a6d8ed2&format=llm_user) ## WAN Optimization Features **Network** - Traffic Overview - Cost - ROI - Bandwidth **Application Performance** - Response Times - Traffic Optimization - Application Issues - Increase Productivity - Improved Performance ## Top WAN Optimization Alternatives - [Barracuda CloudGen Firewall](https://www.g2.com/products/barracuda-cloudgen-firewall/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (51 reviews) - [Riverbed SteelHead](https://www.g2.com/products/riverbed-steelhead/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (10 reviews) - [Windstream OfficeSuite UC](https://www.g2.com/products/windstream-officesuite-uc/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (27 reviews)