We performed a comparison between Lumen MPLS IP VPN and SonicWall Netextender based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenVPN, Fortinet, Cisco and others in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"It is a robust solution. You can scale it up as per your requirement."
"NetExtender works very well. I never had an issue with it, and it has been working well for me. In terms of management, you have good control over the destination. You can use NetExtender to set the policy and the static route for a client. You can modify it based on what your client needs or can access. You have good control over routing."
"One of the most valuable features of SonicWall Netextender is the integration of VPN accounts with Microsoft Identity Management, which enables us to enforce secure access through Microsoft Intune and conditional access policies. This helps ensure that only authorized individuals are able to access the VPN, rather than anyone with knowledge of a password."
"Employees can have access to the network from home."
"It allows us to work remotely."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"My company opted for this solution because it can individually perform. Basically, we don't require load balancers and all those additional feature sets or additional devices that might be required. The solution can handle the certificate, DNS queries, and all that stuff individually."
"The most valuable feature for the Netextender is the ease with which we can integrate it with SAML."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"It should have better integration with other platforms. With the internet, very few innovations can be there, but there are some solutions that can be integrated into the solutions that we provide"
"There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender."
"Right now, you have to load each license on to an appliance. You can't pool across multiple appliances. So, you end up having to do a lot of administrative work to recover if an internet provider goes down, and you cannot leverage it as easily into a DR solution."
"The UI could be a little better."
"They need to rewrite the software to make it a usable product."
"The product does not work well."
"The Netextender application itself doesn't really look pretty, however, we can still use it. We don't care what it looks like. That said, if they did a cosmetic update, that would be fine."
"The initial setup of SonicWall Netextender is straightforward. The only issue we encountered was with relocating the VPN appliance. If we needed to move it from an on-premise to an on-cloud architecture, we had to start over and redeploy it from scratch. Unfortunately, it is not portable and any changes to its physical location often result in the need for a fresh deployment to ensure everything functions properly."
"The only concern I do have is with the zero trust, and the solution is not coping with the newer technologies as much as it needs to do on that particular factor."
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Lumen MPLS IP VPN is ranked 37th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN while SonicWall Netextender is ranked 15th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 11 reviews. Lumen MPLS IP VPN is rated 10.0, while SonicWall Netextender is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Lumen MPLS IP VPN writes "A robust, scalable, stable, and evolved product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall Netextender writes "An affordable and stable solution that is easy to use and provides two-factor authentication". Lumen MPLS IP VPN is most compared with AWS Direct Connect, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, whereas SonicWall Netextender is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, SonicWall Mobile Connect, SonicWall Connect Tunnel, Fortinet FortiClient and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client.
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