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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

What I like the best is the ease of use and the ability to ship white boxes in different locations. Minimal smart-hands needed and having the ability to download configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

There's not much not to like about SteelConnect. It has everything you will need to implement your site or office branches. Steelconnect also has Steelhead optimization built-in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to have a centralized admin portal on the cloud, while taking inventory of the devices. Having built-in optimization and some basic firewall features are also benefits that have been realized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is SteelConnect?

SteelConnect is a complete SD-WAN system for securely connecting users and business to the applications they need, wherever they reside.

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SteelConnect is a complete SD-WAN system for securely connecting users and business to the applications they need, wherever they reside.


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2002
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Passionate Technologist and SD-WAN advocate. Helping the network community to increase their digital performance.

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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"SteelConnect is the best SD-WAN solution"
What I like the best is the ease of use and the ability to ship white boxes in different locations. Minimal smart-hands needed and having the abil...
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Vinayak C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent service"
Time to transfer large files. Connecting is smooth.
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5.0 out of 5
"Next generation product to grow IT business"
The technology used in steel connect is simplifying the Morden requirement IT business. It is going to help customer to focus on their business growth
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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

It can be deployed in different platforms such as Cloud, on-premise and data center. Easy menu-driven network design of sites, zones, uplinks, and rules, and centralized, business intent-based policy management—all within a simple graphical user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

So far I don't see any downside to this technology. I am still enjoying the benefit of this product in our corporate network.

If there are things to be improved as of now, I think it's more on the patch updates. It's not for a negative side but the positive side like continuous patch updates for the lifelong security usage of the customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives us WAN optimization and SD WAN capabilities and identification of different applications over our corporate network via deep packet inspection.

Centralized network management and ability to enforce application path. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

I liked the usefullness of Steelconnect and how it helpedconnect my company with new wifi and for cloud-based management that helped back up my companies stroage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

Although it helped me with my networking services, there are a lot more reliable network companies outher than this with better pricing and options even though this compant is really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SteelConnect:

Look at the comany if it is useful or not before using but it is a really great software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

I dont face any problems with Steel COnnect, but my bandwidth did not expand but i didi not benefit really from using this. My buisness did really like the program though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

The technology used in steel connect is simplifying the Morden requirement IT business. It is going to help customer to focus on their business growth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

have not got anything to dislike, the steel connect is going to change the way organization connects to WAN network to provide support for their data center growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is solving the demand of having network uptime stable and best. And also it is simplifying the design and deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vinayak C.
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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

Time to transfer large files. Connecting is smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

Password protected files transfer not much difference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Multi site connectivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit K.
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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

Automated Provisioning and smooth handling of infra Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

Tech must be better and a lot of improvement on automation needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving challenges of migration of brownfield in a cost-effective manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

It is very stable and user friendly so nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

No downside but i recommend to keep it going Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

It analysis well and the problem catching is cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nagendra M.
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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

Stability of this product is good. easy maintenance. Easy to configure and maintain.

Easily we can login to device via GUI as well CLI, to verify the health of devices, to check the logs and traffic.

Top talkers can be checked easily. In case of any issue, traffic can be by-passed easily so it will not impact any services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

Customer support is something need to improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SteelConnect:

i will recommend others to try this product once as it is easy to deploy and maintain in the network.

Stability of this product is good. easy maintenance. Easy to configure and maintain.

Easily we can login to device via GUI as well CLI, to verify the health of devices, to check the logs and traffic. Top talkers can be checked easily. In case of any issue, traffic can be by-passed easily so it will not impact any services.

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What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

connectivity of remote sites. we have lots of remote sites which is far from data center and we have lots of applications which are very sensitive, this device is very helpful to optimize the services. Easy to configure and maintain. Failover is easy. Stability of this product is good. easy maintenance. Easy to configure and maintain. Easily we can login to device via GUI as well CLI, to verify the health of devices, to check the logs and traffic.Top talkers can be checked easily. In case of any issue, traffic can be by-passed easily so it will not impact any services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

We have found that SteelConnect makes our lives so much easier now that we are starting to migrate some specific applications to the cloud, it simply let us be agile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

The learning curve might be an issue for some people but once you get to play a little bit with it you will start getting all the benefits of this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Currently we are using it as a solution to connect our on-premises systems with the applications we just migrated to AWS, and it works wonderfully Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nathaniel W.
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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

I like the UI of Steelconnect better than any software like it. I also like how simply you can adjust network policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

This program is not as feature rich as what Cisco has to offer, but in my experience you can do almost the same things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Networking for such a complex, large, organization needs a simple solution that anyone can use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SteelConnect?

Allows single-click creation,Fully automates secure connectivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SteelConnect?

It's not as good as other softwares, but will be in do time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SteelConnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quickly respond to the needs of your business with application-centric Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.