We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway 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."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"Provides good performance and speed."
"It's easy to use. Also, the deployment part is perfect."
"The solution is scalable and can go from a very small deployment to handling 10,000 transactions a second."
"The product is straightforward."
"The solution is scalable."
"I didn't have any hiccups or issues with it."
"For our use case, it was scalable. There were at least 25 end users using this solution from remote locations. And once the connection was established, there weren't any complaints."
"We have users in a remote environment that might require to access the service."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature for the Netextender is the ease with which we can integrate it with SAML."
"One of the most valuable features of SonicWall Netextender is the integration of VPN accounts with Microsoft Identity Management, which enables us to enforce secure access through Microsoft Intune and conditional access policies. This helps ensure that only authorized individuals are able to access the VPN, rather than anyone with knowledge of a password."
"The solution provides high availability."
"The product has two-factor authentication."
"I found nothing of value in this solution."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The solution can be a bit pricey."
"If there is an increase in the customer infrastructure, it is not stable."
"Their VAS product should be more productive because right now, we are using other VAS solutions but not using this one."
"The dashboard or interface should be more clear in reporting issues. Integration with other applications should be more user-friendly."
"Citrix Gateway could improve the speed of the VPN. I sometimes have to wait for 10 to 15 minutes to get connected and other times when I am connected I have to abort, and reconnect."
"The load balancing could be improved."
"As Citrix Gateway is a third party solution, we wish to have one which is more integrated and involves less administration."
"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."
"There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender."
"The UI could be a little better."
"The solution takes up a lot of bandwidth."
"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 product does not work well."
"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."
"The only concern I do have is with the zero trust, and the solution is not coping with the newer technologies as much as it needs to do on that particular factor."
Citrix Gateway is ranked 11th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 34 reviews while SonicWall Netextender is ranked 14th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 11 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while SonicWall Netextender is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". 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". Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Check Point Remote Access VPN, whereas SonicWall Netextender is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, SonicWall Mobile Connect, Fortinet FortiClient, SonicWall Connect Tunnel and NetMotion Mobility. See our Citrix Gateway vs. SonicWall Netextender report.
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