We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Global load balancing between data centers."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN."
"HTTP analysis and action. We have a lot of custom web applications that sometimes require custom header insertions. Some of these custom apps are external and, via the content switching, we can use one IP and leverage various back-end web app servers."
"High availability, performance, and security are the main pillars. It enhances the security for accessing the applications."
"I would say the rewriting and redirection functions are must-have's for us."
"The program is easy to install and to set up."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The most valuable feature is load balancing."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"They can improve the scalability and the multi-tenancy feature. We recently tried to configure an authentication, and we ran into some issues while using the web-based GUI. It was very slow when you log in with your credentials in the web-based GUI. Each time we clicked on the menu, it tried to do the authentication. It works properly in the console."
"We would like to see some fairly large scale improvement in the configuration process for this solution."
"Manageability and adaptability can also be challenging for end customers."
"The main areas for improvement would be around documentation and support. If a feature can be used in two or three ways, show that feature being used in all of those ways. Documentation seems to only cover the primary use case and leaves you to either run through trial and error or consult the user community. In terms of support, I have never actually had them solve any of my issues. I have always solved them myself and then provided the resolution to support."
"We had some bugs in the previous firmware. These were not big issues, but more testing on the firmware would be key to happier customers."
"Maybe creating policies with simple regular expressions."
"It can be difficult to setup."
"The GUI should be improved."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"Performance could be improved."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"The user interface can be improved."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC, HAProxy and NGINX Plus. See our Citrix NetScaler vs. Radware Alteon report.
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