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."
"Scalability is great. One of the best features of NetScaler is that it can scale out."
"I would say the rewriting and redirection functions are must-have's for us."
"It's very easy to configure."
"Manageability and visibility are good."
"Very stable."
"Load balancing, cache redirection, content switching, all connected with traffic management."
"It is a stable solution. It crashed only once, four years ago...There is a return on investment using the solution."
"The load balancing and VPN features are most valuable. AAA authentication is also valuable."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"Quality assurance could improve by ironing out security vulnerabilities before releasing upgrades."
"Citrix should offer a demo or free-trial version of NetScaler. Several other vendors do, but Citrix does not. Pricing should also be more readily available."
"There is room for improvement regarding the pricing policy for Citrix offices."
"Integration with other third party providers and third party applications could be better because it can be a bit complex at present."
"We have issues with the certificates. All authorization processes need certificates, however, every three months we needed to change certificates. This process iss complicated for us because Citrix does not have a not user-friendly interface and does not off user-friendly services. This needs a lot of improvement."
"Reducing the overhead required for AppFlow data collection, specifically for HDX Insight, would be a huge improvement."
"The solution could be more secure."
"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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