We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"The device blocks threats and allows legitimate users to work correctly."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The strength of this solution is the application delivery controller."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"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."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Radware Alteon 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and Barracuda Load Balancer ADC, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. Radware Alteon report.
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