We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Radware Alteon 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 best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. During the time that I have been using it, it has not undergone a service failure... And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"Scalability should be based on customer requirements."
"The user interface can be improved."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"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."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. 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 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". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, 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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