We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."From a security standpoint, It is a comprehensive solution in a single box."
"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."
"Manageability and visibility are good."
"I like the monitoring ability as it enables me to identify when an internal (load-balanced) resource is having issues before it becomes a problem in production."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its load balancing."
"Content Switching provides flexibility for routing traffic as desired to designated real servers. It also provides good geo capabilities through its GSLB feature."
"This solution allows the user to easily scale out application delivery, and provides secure remote access."
"It is simple for both IT specialists and customers."
"The most valuable feature is being able to manipulate the iRules, so you can send traffic to different avenues."
"We are using Application Security Manager (ASM) as a web application firewall, where there is a security signature to avoid a web level breach."
"It has made it a single entry point for all users, verging across all the VPCs. It is more of an SSO solution versus multitier user loggin."
"The most valuable features are the WAF and the big IP."
"Load balancing generally brings high availability and a bigger ability to scale out. In some cases, it brings security, depending on how it is configured."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure."
"What we like best about this solution is its stability. It is extremely stable."
"One of the best features of the solution is the operating system."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The features that mitigate attacks are very valuable."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"The product offers high availability."
"Mastering it requires significant learning and training due to its complexity."
"We would like to see some fairly large scale improvement in the configuration process for this solution."
"The technical support could be better. Whenever I contacted support, I rarely got the solution that we needed. And most of the time, I finished fixing the problem by looking on the internet or by finding documents about the problem on Google."
"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."
"It was challenging explaining to customers that it's no longer NetScaler but ADC, and now it's not just ADC but also the rebranding from NetScaler."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the user interface because sometimes it can be complicated."
"Development team's response time could be better."
"The licensing model and technical support of the solution could be improved."
"We need best-practice information. They have something called DevCentral and a blog. But we want something from F5 itself regarding how to tackle the false-positive configurations. If you go into detail with so many configurations it will find so many false positives from the moment it is enabled that it will quickly impact your applications, and it will not work."
"A more hybrid approach would be beneficial for users."
"BIG-IP LTM is taking a long time to mature in cloud environments. They plan to improve cloud integration in the next version, but it isn't out yet. It's essential because more companies are moving to the cloud these days and using things like Kubernetes or microservices. F5 needs to improve in that direction, and they are."
"Performance: Using the product, applications are jittery."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is sometimes a bit cumbersome to deal with some builds, although that's gotten significantly better over the years."
"The ASM administration is quite complex. The topic itself is pretty complex, so it is not easy to provide a nice, clean interface. There are a lot of references and dependencies in-between the different subareas."
"We would like to have integration into encryption and PKI integration with SafeNet. That is probably the key component in using External PKIs, letting people bring their PKIs with them."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"It can be improved by combining the web application firewall (WAF) facility."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
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