We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best feature of Citrix is its track record of stability in its features."
"The load balancing is one of the most valuable features."
"Most of the functions are user-friendly and great."
"The load balancing and VPN features are most valuable. AAA authentication is also valuable."
"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."
"Its flexibility, agility, and robustness are the most valuable. Its management and implementation are also quite easy."
"I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product."
"It is a stable solution. It crashed only once, four years ago...There is a return on investment using the solution."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The strength of this solution is the application delivery controller."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"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 interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"I would like to see support for scripting, like "iRule", which gives you the option to implement any configuration which is not available out of the box."
"Currently, it is not easy to use the configuration capabilities of the product."
"An area for improvement would be the difficulty in finding information about standard licensing costs over the internet. They should provide some reference prices on the net to be quickly referred to."
"We would like to see some fairly large scale improvement in the configuration process for this solution."
"I think there is always room for improvement in this type of solutions. For example, I think the GUI should be easy to understand."
"Citrix should improve the documentation. It is not really clear how to set up many features to our advantage. When we setup Citrix NetScaler ADC, we have to figure it out by ourselves without a lot of documentation."
"Technical support could be improved."
"I would like to see multifactor authentication added to this solution to improve the security."
"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 the loading documentation improved."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"Performance could be improved."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". 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". Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC, HAProxy and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our Citrix NetScaler vs. Radware Alteon report.
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