We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Citrix NetScaler based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"One feature that works really well is the SSL VPN. It's very easy to set up and you can go very granular with it. You can define what user groups get what kind of access and the management overhead is very low."
"This solution increases the backend network service performance, which is one of the things that we like the most."
"We use the solution's IP Reputation and bot protection features."
"The flexibility in configuration options is impressive."
"Easy, user-friendly setup with content switching and integrated caching features."
"SSL Offload"
"The web application firewalling component is a powerful feature."
"Global load balancing between data centers."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"I think there is always room for improvement in this type of solutions. For example, I think the GUI should be easy to understand."
"Overall the price of Citrix ADC could be more competitive."
"We have issues with the certificates. All authorization processes need certificates, however, every three months we needed to change certificates. This process iss complicated for us because Citrix does not have a not user-friendly interface and does not off user-friendly services. This needs a lot of improvement."
"Integration with other third party providers and third party applications could be better because it can be a bit complex at present."
"The setup for Citrix NetScaler has room for improvement. It could be easier."
"I will try to migrate all the tools to the cloud because there is more lab and more VPN scalability available in the cloud. It is not available on-premises."
"Currently, it is not easy to use the configuration capabilities of the product."
"Getting to use some of the advanced tools, even with the assistance of Citrix support, can be challenging."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Loadbalancer.org.
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