We performed a comparison between NordLayer and OpenVPN Access Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenVPN, Fortinet, Cisco and others in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"The solution is convenient and easy."
"Provides privacy and cryptography for my network communication."
"The most valuable thing about OpenVPN Access Server is its ease of use."
"OpenVPN Access Server is a simple and easy-to-use solution that I can use myself without anybody's help."
"The most valuable feature is that I can access my local network remotely and avoid doing all the port forwarding and redirections, and so on."
"Highly configurable. You can create your own custom client installer and can rebrand the server-side program."
"The features I have found to be most valuable are the levels of encryption I can enact and the compression I can apply to improve throughput."
"The solution is secure and user-friendly."
"The initial setup was easy."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The tool is not perfectly stable."
"If someone's key is not working, or if we had to remove someone's permission from it, or maybe an employee left the company and we had to take their key out, that seemed a little bit more complicated than it had to be."
"I'd like to have more control over the users when they are accessing the network."
"One improvement I would like to see in OpenVPN is better adaptability in certain geographical areas."
"The upgrade path from older versions was more difficult than we wanted to tackle, so we ran an older version of the software for longer than I wanted. Patching, updating, and migrating to newer versions was a problem for us. That said, we were on a rather old version that I inherited yet it worked rock solid."
"The connections could be faster and more stable."
"I would like to see a GUI or Web UI to manage users. Today these features are in the Pro Edition or are done by scripts."
"They should make the solution more secure by adding some firewall functionalities."
"The product’s connectivity is very slow. It could be faster."
NordLayer is ranked 23rd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 1 review while OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 45 reviews. NordLayer is rated 8.0, while OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NordLayer writes "A convenient and easy tool with an incredibly high number of dialing points". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenVPN Access Server writes "An easy-to-use tool with which its users can access networks from home or external locations". NordLayer is most compared with Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Cloudflare Access, Twingate and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, whereas OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN and Barracuda SSL VPN.
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