The Riverbed Experience - Day 1
The install of the Riverbed hardware was unbelievably simple. Within 10 minutes I had the first box setup (with Riverbed’s help) and installed in the rack. We pre-configured the other three boxes and send them out to the specific sites.
The Juniper Experience - Day 1
Juniper’s WXC boxes had a fairly simple setup process as well. The downside to the Juniper setup was while there was a wizard, there are around 23 steps to set it up. These steps were simple but were still unneccesary screens to click through. In addition, the screens were not as intuitive as the Steelhead’s screens. In Junper’s defense, the WXC was able to offer a much better selection of QOS settings than the Riverbed appliance. This could be very helpful in today’s networks especially if you are planning an MPLS meshed network soon.
