What has more name recognition for WAN acceleration Cisco? or Citrix?

What has more name recognition for WAN acceleration Cisco? or Citrix?
When you think about acclerating your WAN. What are the first 4 names that come to mind. What order do you list them in?
1. Citrix
2. Cisco
3.
4.
Have you used any of these, what has your experience been

F5 Citrix Cisco Akamai

F5 Networks also makes a WAN acceleration product which is competitive. Nevertheless, having participated in meetings and discussions with Cisco, F5 Networks, and Riverbed I have found the best featured product being Riverbed's Steelhead. Of course, if you are already using F5 Networks BigIPs, you may just want to look at F5 Networks offering

Most of the list is according to last year Gartner:
1. Riverbed.
2. Cisco (former Actona)
3. Citrix
4. Expand Networks
5. Tacit
6. F5
7. BlueCoat

1) Riverbed
2) Juniper
3) Cisco
4) Others Citrix still has some marketing to do to make the Orbital products (which were a fairly small player in the space) become as well known as some of the other players. Bluecoat and F5 win because of other known products that provide a name in the same sort of space (caching and load-balancing products) Cisco of course has the benefit of large router market share. It's about being seen to be in the right market space, and Citrix is still seen as a software tool (especially by end customers), rather than an WAN acceleration supplier

Cisco obviously has more name recognition in the networking arena, though the WAN Scaler is heating up some discussions in my neck of the networking world. Once again though, it depends on your requirements when choosing the best option. Networking is definately not a one size fits all scenario

Cisco WAAS Citrix Riverbed Packeteer 1st - Make sure the solution deploy will not be "in-line" that is make sure it supports wccp v2. With this said, Packeteer is ruled out. 2nd - Make sure there is as little as possible of administrative overhead to deploy and maintain this soluion. This could possibly rule out Cisco; I'm sure they would disagree however. I've recommended Citrix, but alas this was Orbital data until a recent aquisition by Citrix. Anyhow, these folks are taking on ICA as well as TCP for compression and acceleration and making a desktop agent that will allow clients /laptops servers to participate in the techniques as well. Great for full meshing.

1. Riverbed 2. Blue Coat 3. Cisco 4. Expand 5. Juniper 6. Packeteer..... etc, etc..... What else do you need? These are Vendors with acceleration solutions...Citrix environments can still benefit from this technology? Thin client vs fat vs bandwidth limitations. You want cost effective - ask me about Riverbed !

We resell for Riverbed and they are definitely the technology leader and the one to beat. They are moving up very quickly. You can check this out on your own. They are extremely effective with Microsoft shops due to the overhead on basic network functions.

Having tested/worked with most of the products in the market there is really no clear cut number 2, but the leader is beyond a doubt Riverbed.

Well, name recognition is one thing... The word Cisco is known by everyone, even if they don't know what a computer is. The real question is, does name recognition matter when your job is on the line? Or does the viability of the solution matter? Because Cisco has more name recognition does that mean it's better than another solution which has less name recognition? To rate in order of my choice if someone put a gun to my head:
1. RiverBed
2. F5
3. Juniper
4. Citrix
5. Cisco
I know that F5's Road map for their WanJet looks really god for next quarter, I'm interested to see how they stack up after that. RiverBed has always been a strong player, as they should be it's their core business. Juniper is pretty good at this as well. Gartner does a good job at comparing these guys. If I was in an environment with an F5 presence I would have to suggest WanJet, especially with where their road map is going. Dennis mentioned Citrix ICA. Citrix did a fine job on the ICA protocol. With the exception of doing some header compression I doubt even Citrix could further optimize ICA. If they could, hopefully it would be done on the presentation server end and not the WanScaler end.