We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Fortinet FortiADC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy.
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