We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and SonicWall Netextender based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"It is easy to scale."
"We have plans to increase the usage of this solution, it can scale well."
"The solution is secure and has a lot of benefits."
"The solution provides seamless connectivity to the VPN without delay."
"It is reliable and easy to configure, and the Cisco Firewall can last for many years."
"The solution provides secure and easy access to corporate network resources."
"Configuration policy, posture assessment, and other things can be done in great detail."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is the one-click VPN connection. Additionally, the performance is good."
"I found nothing of value in this solution."
"Employees can have access to the network from home."
"The most valuable feature for the Netextender is the ease with which we can integrate it with SAML."
"NetExtender works very well. I never had an issue with it, and it has been working well for me. In terms of management, you have good control over the destination. You can use NetExtender to set the policy and the static route for a client. You can modify it based on what your client needs or can access. You have good control over routing."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It allows us to work remotely."
"You do need technical expertise to set up the product."
"When using Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client when my laptop goes into sleep mode the VPN wants me to enter the password again. I should not have to enter the information again. If the laptop is on and it is not switched off, the password should be in the VPN saved and secured."
"The solution could offer tighter integration with endpoint protection to make it easier to use when routing security applications from other vendors."
"We don't have the correct visibility to see the quantity of licenses we are consuming or not consuming."
"In the next release, Cisco should add a chat feature."
"The support could be more proactive in their recommendations. I noticed that the Cisco support agents tend to leave customers to do what they need to do in many ways, and you can choose how you want to do it. However, it would be great if they could proactively be involved in best practices and let other customers know how most people are doing it."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client could improve by making a feature to set it apart from other competitors."
"It would be good to have some improvements to the quality of service."
"The Netextender application itself doesn't really look pretty, however, we can still use it. We don't care what it looks like. That said, if they did a cosmetic update, that would be fine."
"There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender."
"Right now, you have to load each license on to an appliance. You can't pool across multiple appliances. So, you end up having to do a lot of administrative work to recover if an internet provider goes down, and you cannot leverage it as easily into a DR solution."
"The solution takes up a lot of bandwidth."
"SonicWall can be difficult for some people, but I don't find it difficult. Some companies provide a VPN client for free, but you have to pay for NetExtender."
"They need to rewrite the software to make it a usable product."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 4th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 43 reviews while SonicWall Netextender is ranked 11th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 7 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.4, while SonicWall Netextender is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client writes "Easy to use, stable, has no connectivity issues, and allows users to work from home". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall Netextender writes "Hard to set up with lag issues and unhelpful technical support". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Zscaler Private Access, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Cisco IOS SSL VPN and Aruba Remote Access Points, whereas SonicWall Netextender is most compared with SonicWall Connect Tunnel, SonicWall Mobile Connect, OpenVPN Access Server, Fortinet FortiClient and SonicWall SMA. See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. SonicWall Netextender report.
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