We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
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Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 37th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and WAPPLES.
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