We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway and SonicWall SMA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The solution is scalable and can go from a very small deployment to handling 10,000 transactions a second."
"It is easy to set up and is stable. It is scalable as well, depending on the model."
"Most of our customers are using the load balancing feature and also the verification feature is good as well, in my experience."
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"Providing our organization the ability to work remotely was the most valuable feature of Citrix Gateway. I also enjoy that they are always adding features."
"We have users in a remote environment that might require to access the service."
"Just creating that gateway to the storefront for Citrix is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."
"The solution has very flexible configuration."
"What I like best about SonicWall SMA is the relationship between its features and its price, because the solution is both affordable and functional."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is they have IT consultants that know SonicWall."
"Blocklisting and allowlisting are the most beneficial features for network security."
"I think they ask for a fair price."
"The management and the dashboard are the solution's most valuable features."
"The solution is reliable and has good overall performance."
"I like the load balancing capability."
"The performance is good."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"It's extremely complicated and it's not intuitive. The solution requires a lot of training to get going on it."
"Sometimes the input-output has issues."
"I would like to see improved logging because it doesn't keep much information for the session monitoring or historical sessions."
"Citrix Gateway could improve the speed of the VPN. I sometimes have to wait for 10 to 15 minutes to get connected and other times when I am connected I have to abort, and reconnect."
"The solution has unnecessary limitations."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"The product should be more secure."
"Its interface could be made a lot easier. It is very kludgy."
"The timed synchronization between the network appliance needs improvement."
"SonicWall SMA is difficult to use and it does not provide easy access to different parts of the network."
"I'd like to see the product maybe polish keyboards in Bookmark."
"The problem is that when combined with what the client already has, there are two different logins and two different management systems, and these should be consolidated into a single interface."
"This is an expensive solution and I think that the price could be improved."
"The product itself is very good, but Dell needs to work on product visibility in their advertising."
"The solution has 2FA, it will generate a token and send it to an email, but multifactor authentication is not available. I would suggest that there should be MFA integration and provided with the appliance."
"The solution could integrate better with other platforms."
Citrix Gateway is ranked 11th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 33 reviews while SonicWall SMA is ranked 17th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 14 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while SonicWall SMA is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall SMA writes "It allows us to provide CML-based access to any user, but the reporting could be better". Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas SonicWall SMA is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco SD-WAN, SonicWall Netextender, Peplink SpeedFusion and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. See our Citrix Gateway vs. SonicWall SMA report.
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