We performed a comparison between OpenVPN Access Server and Sangfor SSL VPN 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 most valuable feature is stability."
"The most valuable thing about OpenVPN Access Server is its ease of use."
"The product’s adaptability is valuable."
"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."
"It is open-source and free to use."
"OpenVPN Access Server allows us to establish a secure connection to an IP address that would otherwise be inaccessible without using a VPN."
"Highly configurable. You can create your own custom client installer and can rebrand the server-side program."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The most valuable feature is our ability to limit access by user, IP address, or MAC address."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of the product is very easy."
"Sangfor SSL VPN is a secure and user-friendly solution."
"Sangfor SSL VPN provides secure encryption for communication."
"The platform is easy to use."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"It would be nice with all these features, if they could send some examples of each one; just small sample scripts to look at and say, "Oh okay, I could expand on this." That would help us a lot."
"The high availability deployment is not very straightforward. They can make it simpler. OpenVPN does not support some of the additional protocols that Pulse Secure and Cisco AnyConnect support. They can include support for these additional protocols."
"We occasionally have internet issues which affect stability."
"When there are too many concurrent users trying to connect at the same time, there may be a bit of a bottleneck."
"It is not scalable."
"One improvement I would like to see in OpenVPN is better adaptability in certain geographical areas."
"They should make the solution more secure by adding some firewall functionalities."
"There sometimes is an incompatibility between some VPNs."
"I think Sangfor can provide a web-based SSL VPN version."
"The technical support team takes around two months to respond to queries. It is very time-consuming."
"In redundancy mode, when the firewall goes off, the VPN should be able to connect to the secondary firewall automatically."
"No solution is perfect, so there is room for improvement."
"Sangfor SSL VPN should provide advanced protection against ransomware and better data analysis."
OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 44 reviews while Sangfor SSL VPN is ranked 16th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 5 reviews. OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4, while Sangfor SSL VPN is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor SSL VPN writes "A secure and user-friendly solution that is simple to implement and configure". OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN and SonicWall Netextender, whereas Sangfor SSL VPN is most compared with Sangfor EasyConnect, Peplink SpeedFusion, AWS Direct Connect, Symantec VIP Access Manager and Hillstone E-Series. See our OpenVPN Access Server vs. Sangfor SSL VPN report.
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