Fortinet FortiADC Valuable Features

Saeid Khanipour Ghobani - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Technology Evaluation Center

The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers. 

Routing protocols are better than those in FortiWeb.

For example, CNN has one website but a lot of web traffic so we need more than one server for high availability and load sharing. The solution allows for load sharing across multiple servers or even multiple data centers where they run as active/active or active/passive. If we lose the primary data center due to natural disaster or a high global load, we can manipulate DNS traffic to the secondary data center.

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Sameer Ghewade - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology at Parag Milk Foods Ltd

Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it. I can perfectly take control of the service provided to the end user. The solution's policy also works on the group level and individual level.

Fortinet FortiADC is easy to operate and has single-handed control.

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Aymar Tala Defo - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Analyst at COLLEGE BOREAL

I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature. 

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Bruno Moreira - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at SigmaTelecom

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.

It can also balance application loads between servers and reroute content. If a public IP address hosts multiple applications, ADC can steer the traffic to the specific server of that application based on the URL that you are calling. If you have servers that respond for one specific application, you can use the ADC to load-balance the sessions between those servers. Which server has the least number of sessions? Which server is responding the fastest? 

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Mohammad Ab.Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Engineer at Snskies

The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications.

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KRISTOF Laenen - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at KLC bvba

The product has flexible and interesting licensing options. If you buy a low-end licensing plan, you get all the features with a lower version. You can buy an expensive version if you need advanced features, including security, web application firewall, etc.

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Seshi Dumpa - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The ease of use is because of the functionality across these devices currently in the market. Most of the features are the same that they are offering with the certificate, be it the offloading options, load-balancing features, which is a provision, and a set of rules that you can implement. That has been kind of a common standard, of course, depending on the money and the grade of the device. Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running needs minimal knowledge is another reason. 

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Mohamed Fouad - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Team Leader at Summit Technology Solution

Fortinet FortiADC is the most affordable appliance you can purchase from any vendor. From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet.

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IJ
Manager BU Network/Security at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5.

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VK
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable features would be content caching and content compression. It also has an inbuilt firewall. I doubt whether any other ADC supports this firewall feature. It also has a web application firewall feature.

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MA
Security Technical Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Fortinet FortiADC’s basic feature is present in all models, providing control over load balancing. Additionally, extra features found in FortiADC include bridging, which enables load balancing for CDB, UDP, and SDP.

The solution includes all the features, as well as support for global traffic management and local traffic management tools. It offers forward compatibility to integrate smoothly with Sandbox environments.

The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily. It has its own antivirus.

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it_user1256058 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager/Division of Computers Systems, Networks, and Maintenance at a non-tech company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading. TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features.

This solution improves security for servers by offering data loss protection.

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OC
Technical Director at AXIOBASE

The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity.

It is easy to manage and easy to configure.

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VV
Engenharia de Pré-Vendas
  • SSL Offloading
  • VM availability
  • L7 load balancing
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MC
Full support analyst at Gruppen

My experience with Fortinet has been very positive. It provides a great layer when it comes to SD-WAN and other security capabilities. It offers many models for a host of environments. 

I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence.

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NC
Tech Writer

Of course the troubleshooting tools. I think the troubleshooting command is easy and useful. Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is.

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AS
Supervisor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is its simplicity.

The interface is user-friendly.

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HH
Operations Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability.

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OS
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I like all the products in the Fortinet family, they are simple to use and you can integrate a virtual server in a couple of minutes. If you have the topology, if you have the network, you can make a virtual server batch in a couple of minutes. It uses the same FortiOS regardless of the product. 

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