We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), and SonicWall SMA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Citrix, SonicWall, Cisco and others in Universal Access Gateways."It is easy to set up and is stable. It is scalable as well, depending on the model."
"It performs quite well."
"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."
"The session monitoring capability is good."
"Just creating that gateway to the storefront for Citrix is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."
"The solution is scalable and can go from a very small deployment to handling 10,000 transactions a second."
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"What I find most valuable about this solution, is that it runs seamlessly."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"In my team, we work in a very agile environment and the solutions from BIG-IP, including BIG-IP WAF, suit us well when developing and serving our applications."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"We like the capability to combine the content switching with the intrusion prevention and adding the security roles, so we can expose certain sub-pieces outside without exposing everything."
"The most valuable features are DNS, APM, and ASM. Additionally, it is easy to use and you have a lot of flexibility to use the solution within a network."
"It improves the overall performance of applications by decreasing the burden on servers associated with managing and maintaining applications and network sessions, as well as by performing application-specific tasks."
"The support from F5 BIG-IP LTM is good."
"Routing and load balancing are its most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is they have IT consultants that know SonicWall."
"The solution is reliable and has good overall performance."
"What I like best about SonicWall SMA is the relationship between its features and its price, because the solution is both affordable and functional."
"I think they ask for a fair price."
"I am very satisfied with the technical support."
"It is faster than other security options when using remote connections."
"Secure Mobile Access (SMA) is easy to configure and the deployment is straightforward. However, this is mostly because of the AWS setup."
"This solution has many options for remote desktop and access."
"Sometimes the input-output has issues."
"We are currently looking at automation. It would be good if there is some way to automate it in a fast way. It should be easy to automate. It also has some security issues."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"The solution can be a bit pricey."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"I'd like to see support for reverse proxy and more security features."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Its interface could be made a lot easier. It is very kludgy."
"Improvements should enable customers to build a tailor-made solution in the future through a service portal."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"Logging is a bit of a problem. Logging and monitoring are only in plain text. You have to search and you have to know what you are searching for to find anything. So of course, monitoring and getting alerts for abnormal situations is hard. There are no tools for monitoring and alerts"
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"Technical support could be improved."
"In terms of pricing, it could be more competitive."
"Lacking in free training to help users understand the product more, so they would know how to correctly use it. Like other vendors and their products, becoming more proactive is an area for improvement."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is expensive. Pricing needs to be improved."
"SonicWall SMA is difficult to use and it does not provide easy access to different parts of the network."
"The solution could integrate better with other platforms."
"The only thing that they could try to improve is the support for enterprise customers. Normally enterprises and SMBs can create a ticket, but for enterprises, SonicWall SMA needs to provide a global view, and this is what's currently missing. It's not even a question of timing. It's a question of the global vision because currently, it's lacking. They concentrate on the topic, but not on the means and not on the global picture. In most cases, there's something wrong with the integration of SonicWall SMA with other products, so that could also be improved."
"This is an expensive solution and I think that the price could be improved."
"The problem is that when combined with what the client already has, there are two different logins and two different management systems, and these should be consolidated into a single interface."
"The product itself is very good, but Dell needs to work on product visibility in their advertising."
"The product's technical support services could be improved."
"SonicWall's reporting isn't good. Reports should be part of a data plan. The login mechanism should be improved. It would be helpful if the client could use an agent to log in. An agent-server model would improve the performance of the RDB, which consumes a lot of bandwidth."
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