We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), 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)."The solution is very stable."
"I like the ease of use. It's easy to manage. I also like it's ease of use with virtualization technologies with applications."
"I would say the rewriting and redirection functions are must-have's for us."
"It is simple for both IT specialists and customers."
"The solution was very easy to deploy."
"Scalability is great. One of the best features of NetScaler is that it can scale out."
"It is a very stable solution."
"One of the most beneficial features for application delivery is its integration with Citrix Storefront, facilitating user logins and ensuring continuity during data center outages."
"ASM for WAF."
"Currently, it's distributing the load perfectly, as per my understanding of our requirements."
"The product is quite flexible."
"The most helpful thing is that it's open-source. It's very easy to program and customize."
"We enjoy its overall ease of use."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"F5 BIG-IP is used with good applications and functions as an application firewall with additional features. We will not use any feature or any service unless there is a business case and there is a need for implementation."
"It is a very good, flexible solution. It helps us to catch up on flaws in our partner solutions on top of its load balancing feature."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"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 most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"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 am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"The integrated application protection provided by Alteon is very good. It really helps to avoid false positives in some cases. It provides important granularity to avoid a situation in which security or cybersecurity scenarios escape us."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"Mastering it requires significant learning and training due to its complexity."
"The solution could be more secure."
"Maybe creating policies with simple regular expressions."
"It does not have a sandbox cloud service and antivirus. It should have on-prem or cloud sandboxing and antivirus."
"We would like the licensing model for this product to be improved, as it isn't currently very transparent. There isn't a standard package available, and each extra feature creates an additional cost."
"Currently, the support team's responsiveness is lacking, and the technical personnel on calls often seem unfamiliar with the issues or inadequately trained."
"Development team's response time could be better."
"ADC from Citrix has added functionalities from other products and the usability is very difficult for someone who is used to a simpler user interface, it's a little bit of a mess to use."
"Logging is a bit of a problem. Logging and monitoring are only in plain text. You have to search and you have to know what you are searching for to find anything. So of course, monitoring and getting alerts for abnormal situations is hard. There are no tools for monitoring and alerts"
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"Internet and cloud support could be improved."
"The price for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is very high. This aspect could be improved."
"The solution could improve the documentation."
"To improve the product, they could add more load balancing solutions in Kubernetes."
"It would be good to have better traffic and better data. It would be nice to have more granularity to see packets in terms of the header details, the analytics, etc. It would be nice if that was also part of it and to have analytics added to the traffic."
"They need to develop the reporting tools further."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
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