We performed a comparison between Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management and Citrix NetScaler based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."We use the HDX protocol, a high-performing component of the Citrix solutions. We also use provisioning to generate VM and NetScaler ADC solutions to propose access to applications for our customers."
"Enables a Web service that offers persistent client-server connections, IP restriction, URL rewrite (such as remove "/assets/" path from client-side URL path), and cache for CSS or JS files... You can easily use the GUI to set up all these requirements on the same network device within 20-30 minutes. (If you do the same steps on CLI, it might take less time.)"
"It is a stable solution. It crashed only once, four years ago...There is a return on investment using the solution."
"Citrix NetScaler offers robust security features, including SmartAccess and customizable policies, making it a reliable choice for safeguarding user data."
"We appreciate that this solution facilitates our access to Citrix internet."
"The most valuable feature is the content switching."
"The load balancing feature of this solution is very good."
"The solution is easy to work with and manage."
"The load balancing feature and the fact that you can do context switching in the WAF are the most valuable. We majorly use it for load balancing, but we also use it for context switching in the WAF. It is also robust and very easy to work with and manage."
"We discussed problems with the network products with the Indian teams. The support center for network products is located in India. There are language barriers and issues with the time difference, so we sometimes face restrictions when dealing with this team."
"The SLB could be better, and they should improve it."
"We would like the licensing model for this product to be improved, as it isn't currently very transparent. There isn't a standard package available, and each extra feature creates an additional cost."
"It was challenging explaining to customers that it's no longer NetScaler but ADC, and now it's not just ADC but also the rebranding from NetScaler."
"If one device or switch fails, the failover to another device is not seamless which is painful."
"It does not have a sandbox cloud service and antivirus. It should have on-prem or cloud sandboxing and antivirus."
"We had some bugs in the previous firmware. These were not big issues, but more testing on the firmware would be key to happier customers."
"The main areas for improvement would be around documentation and support. If a feature can be used in two or three ways, show that feature being used in all of those ways. Documentation seems to only cover the primary use case and leaves you to either run through trial and error or consult the user community. In terms of support, I have never actually had them solve any of my issues. I have always solved them myself and then provided the resolution to support."
"The licensing model and technical support of the solution could be improved."
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Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is ranked 19th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) while Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews. Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is rated 8.0, while Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management writes "It's a robust and proven solution that we've been working with for many years". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Simple implementation, reliable, and good dashboards". Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is most compared with , whereas Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Loadbalancer.org.
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