We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and Sangfor SSL VPN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SSL 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 feature I find most valuable, is the management portal."
"The product's most valuable features are security, stability, and troubleshooting capabilities."
"The solution is very reliable."
"The product's setup phase was easy."
"The user interface is user-friendly."
"Cisco certainly has a really strong support team."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN provides fast connectivity and the option to connect through multiple servers."
"The product is great because it is easy and simple."
"The platform is easy to use."
"Sangfor SSL VPN is a secure and user-friendly solution."
"Sangfor SSL VPN provides secure encryption for communication."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of the product is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is our ability to limit access by user, IP address, or MAC address."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"When many people are using the internet at home, which is usually right after dinner, this type of service is a little bit hard to use. The internet becomes quite slow, and sometimes, I have to stop using this application. I am not sure if this issue is because of the application or my internet provider."
"I think the administration can be improved to include web interfaces."
"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."
"The product's RPA tools need enhancement for simplified business process automation."
"In addition to Cisco, we work with other solutions on behalf of our customers, such as Fortinet for FortiGate, but this latter solution can achieve the same results at a lower price."
"The pricing is a stumbling block to scaling our utilization of Cisco products and we would prefer to use more of them."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN doesn't support the configuration of multiple VPNs."
"The company sets the policies for the default location, and destination, which the VPN connects. If there is a problem with one of those locations, which happens sometimes when I travel I need to have an option to select a different available location. Currently, I am unable to see that from a user's point of view."
"I think Sangfor can provide a web-based SSL VPN version."
"Sangfor SSL VPN should provide advanced protection against ransomware and better data analysis."
"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."
"The technical support team takes around two months to respond to queries. It is very time-consuming."
Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 1st in SSL VPN with 47 reviews while Sangfor SSL VPN is ranked 7th in SSL VPN with 5 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while Sangfor SSL VPN 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 Sangfor SSL VPN writes "A secure and user-friendly solution that is simple to implement and configure". Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Zyxel VPN Client, Ivanti Connect Secure and SonicWall Netextender, whereas Sangfor SSL VPN is most compared with Sangfor EasyConnect, Peplink SpeedFusion, AWS Direct Connect and OpenVPN Access Server. See our Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. Sangfor SSL VPN report.
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