We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and OpenVPN Access Server 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 is quite transparent."
"It's a very stable solution and I'd say it works perfectly."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is stable, and once we connect, we don't face any issues and can do our work."
"It is highly scalable, speedy, and reliable."
"The solution is very stable."
"It's a stable solution."
"The split panel functionality is much better in the Cisco IOS SSL VPN than in the Aruba VPN."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is reasonably priced, and its technology is flexible."
"Provides privacy and cryptography for my network communication."
"The most valuable feature of OpenVPN is that it is open source. I can do anything with the solution, such as change, build, and collect. Additionally, it is safe to use the solution and there are frequent updates."
"Security is the most valuable feature."
"I like that it's free."
"The compatibility with almost any Linux operating system, and how easy it is to write scripts and generate keys for people to use and log in. I found it easy to deploy quickly."
"OpenVPN Access Server is cheap, and we get to use it ourselves. It is also a stable solution."
"I have found the stability to be good."
"The features I have found to be most valuable are the levels of encryption I can enact and the compression I can apply to improve throughput."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The performance could be improved."
"Cisco has a history of problems with the area of web filtering, because of which my company sometimes had to change the vendor and the appliance."
"They could provide the cloud-based as-a-service model with monthly rental payments."
"The solution's configuration could be made easier."
"The solution needs to integrate password-less technology so that you don't have to remember passwords each time that you log in, which is otherwise tedious. We should be able to log in as long as our system is connected to the internet."
"The product’s dashboard is not good enough."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It can be difficult to find service and at times we cannot connect with the internet easily."
"Needs a better GUI."
"If someone's key is not working, or if we had to remove someone's permission from it, or maybe an employee left the company and we had to take their key out, that seemed a little bit more complicated than it had to be."
"There sometimes is an incompatibility between some VPNs."
"I think right now the GUI part of it is locked out behind the pay wall. It could use something that gives it a very basic, minimal, graphic interface for logging in, for the community version. That would probably be a good step forward."
"I would like to see a simpler interface, so that we can make the connection between the local network using the LAN IP."
"It could include a configuration wizard so that users who do not follow instructions well can configure a connection."
"The server configuration file needs to be improved, it's the biggest problem in the configuration process."
"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."
Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 9th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 47 reviews while OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 45 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4. 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 OpenVPN Access Server writes "An easy-to-use tool with which its users can access networks from home or external locations". Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Zyxel VPN Client, Fortinet FortiClient, Ivanti Connect Secure and Citrix Gateway, whereas 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. See our Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. OpenVPN Access Server report.
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