We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC 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."Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"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 most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"The device blocks threats and allows legitimate users to work correctly."
"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."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"Fortinet has some drawbacks, and it can be a bit challenging to scale."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
"I had a terrible experience with Fortinet support. I only used support once when I bought the solution. I got no response for two days. However, I believe that it's no longer the case. Fortinet solutions have problems when they're launched. For example, we had issues with Fortinet's authenticator when it came out. We also had trouble with FortiNAC in the beginning."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"Performance could be improved."
"The user interface can be improved."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"Scalability should be based on customer requirements."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". 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". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and Imperva DDoS, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Radware LinkProof. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. Radware Alteon report.
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