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."For desktop application management, I recommend the NetScaler edition. This product is like a Swiss army knife. Citrix NetScaler ADC supports the education front-end."
"The GSLB feature allows us to move services between data centers. We can do this in either a planned or unplanned manner. We have experienced service provider outages at our primary data center and GSLB will kick in to automatically modify DNS records to point to a secondary data center (active/passive). We also make use of GeoIP information to point clients to the closest data center for accessing applications."
"The NetScaler appliance has provided a lot of customers with greater high availability for their enterprise applications within a single site and across multiple locations."
"The solution is easy to work with and manage."
"This solution allows the user to easily scale out application delivery, and provides secure remote access."
"Citrix Netscaler makes it easy to provide services to end users, offering better visibility into user sessions compared to VMware. However, instability in network or machine can cause headaches as it's hard to pinpoint issues. SSL offload feature enhances security posture by providing secure connectivity between end users and backend systems. We use additional Azure remote security solutions for comprehensive protection."
"Scalability is great. One of the best features of NetScaler is that it can scale out."
"I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The most valuable aspect is the ability to customize the types of load-balancing scenarios needed for customized applications. Some of the load balancers on the market today are strictly out-of-hand load balancers for SSL or HTTP. Radware Alteon is most useful for customizing in-house applications based on ports and protocols."
"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."
"It does not have a sandbox cloud service and antivirus. It should have on-prem or cloud sandboxing and antivirus."
"I would like to see support for scripting, like "iRule", which gives you the option to implement any configuration which is not available out of the box."
"The technical support could be improved. They do not respond or assist customers in a timely manner."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the user interface because sometimes it can be complicated."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The product provides some templates to integrate with applications like MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, SAP Enterprise Portal, and others. However, the last update for these templates was 2013 (lots of applications are running on versions newer then 2013)."
"Mastering it requires significant learning and training due to its complexity."
"I think there is always room for improvement in this type of solutions. For example, I think the GUI should be easy to understand."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"The user interface can be improved."
"A feature that I would like to see included in the next version might be a better analysis when working with crypt issues. Right now, it is very manual; you load it into Alteon and it runs. It would be interesting to see a more dynamic process."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"Performance could be improved."
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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