Array APV Series and Akamai Ion compete in the application delivery and performance optimization space. Akamai Ion tends to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features.
Features: Array APV Series focuses on load balancing, SSL offloading, and traffic management for enhanced security. Akamai Ion provides a robust content delivery network, advanced web performance optimizations, and audience targeting for better global content delivery.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Array APV Series offers a straightforward deployment model with reliable support, making it suitable for rapid setup. Akamai Ion has a more intricate deployment process reflecting its advanced functionalities, but provides comprehensive support.
Pricing and ROI: Array APV Series is noted for cost-effective entry points and clear ROI in network management. Akamai Ion, while higher in setup costs, is seen as a good investment for firms prioritizing performance scalability and extended CDN capabilities due to its higher perceived ROI.
Ion, Akamai’s flagship performance solution, is a suite of intelligent performance optimizations and controls that helps deliver superior web, iOS, and Android app experiences. Built on the SLA-backed availability of the globally distributed Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, Ion continuously monitors real user behavior — applying best-practice performance optimizations automatically — and adapting in real time to content, user behavior, and connectivity changes.
Array’s APV Series provides the availability, scalability, performance, security and control to keep applications and servers running optimally. Local and global server load balancing, as well as link load balancing, ensure the highest levels of resiliency for your applications, while connection multiplexing, SSL intercept and SSL offload, caching and compression work together to deliver the fastest end-user experience possible. Array ADCs are available as physical or virtual appliances, or on popular public clouds.
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