We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Citrix NetScaler based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"The load balancing feature of this solution is very good."
"It's very easy to configure."
"I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product."
"For NetScaler, our major use cases are database load balancing, PowerVPN VPN access gateway, WAF (Web Application Firewall), and content switching."
"The solution is very stable. We don't have any downtime or issues of that nature."
"The most valuable features of Citrix ADC are load balancing and application firewall."
"From a security standpoint, It is a comprehensive solution in a single box."
"Helped us a lot with load balancing."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The licensing model and technical support of the solution could be improved."
"The interface needs to be improved because the competition is coming up with ones that are more eye-catching, straightforward, and sophisticated."
"There are some features which are missing."
"I would like to see multifactor authentication added to this solution to improve the security."
"If one device or switch fails, the failover to another device is not seamless which is painful."
"Mastering it requires significant learning and training due to its complexity."
"The solution can improve their support and send tickets directly to a Citrix ADC engineer in order to avoid having to escalate each support call."
"Does not include security. A web application firewall would be a nice addition."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Loadbalancer.org.
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