We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Fortinet FortiADC 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."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"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."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8. 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 Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy.
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