We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and SonicWall Netextender based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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's technical support is very good."
"Stability-wise, it is a very good solution."
"The solution is quite transparent."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use, management, and support."
"The solution is very stable."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the management portal."
"A reliable and stable solution for remote network access."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is integrated with domain controller, SSO and MFA."
"The most valuable feature for the Netextender is the ease with which we can integrate it with SAML."
"I found nothing of value in this solution."
"The solution provides high availability."
"It allows us to work remotely."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"NetExtender works very well. I never had an issue with it, and it has been working well for me. In terms of management, you have good control over the destination. You can use NetExtender to set the policy and the static route for a client. You can modify it based on what your client needs or can access. You have good control over routing."
"The product has two-factor authentication."
"My company opted for this solution because it can individually perform. Basically, we don't require load balancers and all those additional feature sets or additional devices that might be required. The solution can handle the certificate, DNS queries, and all that stuff individually."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The solution does not give us options if the connectivity to one server is not available."
"Enhancing the client certificate deployment process could be a valuable improvement, ensuring smoother and more reliable certificate renewal experiences in the future."
"The solution's configuration could be made easier."
"The administration should be improved."
"The Secure Plus Connect product could be improved with many enhancements in any price license, especially for licensing. Cisco could simplify the licensing; it could make it easier to order and use the features."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN doesn't support the configuration of multiple VPNs."
"The graphical interface is old and needs to improve."
"Improvements could be made in terms of connectivity for applications."
"There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender."
"They need to rewrite the software to make it a usable product."
"The product does not work well."
"The Netextender application itself doesn't really look pretty, however, we can still use it. We don't care what it looks like. That said, if they did a cosmetic update, that would be fine."
"The UI could be a little better."
"The initial setup of SonicWall Netextender is straightforward. The only issue we encountered was with relocating the VPN appliance. If we needed to move it from an on-premise to an on-cloud architecture, we had to start over and redeploy it from scratch. Unfortunately, it is not portable and any changes to its physical location often result in the need for a fresh deployment to ensure everything functions properly."
"Right now, you have to load each license on to an appliance. You can't pool across multiple appliances. So, you end up having to do a lot of administrative work to recover if an internet provider goes down, and you cannot leverage it as easily into a DR solution."
"The solution takes up a lot of bandwidth."
Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 9th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 47 reviews while SonicWall Netextender is ranked 15th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 11 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while SonicWall Netextender is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS SSL VPN writes "The solution is very stable and scalable, but it is expensive, and the configuration is complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall Netextender writes "An affordable and stable solution that is easy to use and provides two-factor authentication". Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Zyxel VPN Client, Ivanti Connect Secure and Appgate SDP, whereas SonicWall Netextender is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, SonicWall Mobile Connect, SonicWall Connect Tunnel, Fortinet FortiClient and NetMotion Mobility. See our Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. SonicWall Netextender report.
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