We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiDDoS and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."Among its key features: Detects and mitigates DDoS attacks at L3 to L7; negligible to zero false-positives; Generates and sends reports without the need for an expensive third-party solution."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud DDoS scrubbing capability."
"It is a user-friendly product in terms of monitoring and updating policies."
"We have researched them all, and it's a good solution all around."
"The product allows the users to adjust the thresholds."
"This solution can protect Layer 3, Layer 4 and Layer 7 attacks of applications for us."
"The product's initial setup phase was really easy."
"I find the interface easy to use."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"The strength of this solution is the application delivery controller."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"I would like to see analytics, big data."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly and it can be more affordable."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"Alerts and reporting features must be improved."
"All the thresholds that need to be configured should be included in the default so that user will not forget or misconfigure."
"The primary area for improvement is the on-premises capacity limit, currently fixed at 10 GB."
"The web interface could be much better."
"I find that there have been issues in the past year with the solution hanging. It freezes often."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"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."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
Fortinet FortiDDoS is ranked 16th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. Fortinet FortiDDoS is rated 8.4, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDDoS writes "Offers good technical support but has poor scalability". 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 FortiDDoS is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiWeb and Edgio Global CDN, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy.
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