We performed a comparison between A10 Networks Lightning ADC and Akamai Ion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."It allows you to secure the application while balancing the connections for many other customers, reducing CPU usage and server load."
"What I like about Lightning ADC, is that instead of having a big appliance sitting in front of the Kubernetes cluster, Lightning can pretty much go inside of Kubernetes."
"Our clients appreciate that this is a security enabled solution."
"Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"We would like to see some improvement in the rapidity with which we can customize security facts within the solution."
"The support from A10 should be improved."
"A10 documentation is not as open and accessible as AWS and Azure documentation is."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
A10 Networks Lightning ADC is ranked 16th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 3 reviews while Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review. A10 Networks Lightning ADC is rated 7.0, while Akamai Ion is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of A10 Networks Lightning ADC writes "Efficient application security while optimizing connections". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". A10 Networks Lightning ADC is most compared with A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus.
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