We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Fortinet FortiDDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud DDoS scrubbing capability."
"This solution can protect Layer 3, Layer 4 and Layer 7 attacks of applications for us."
"We have researched them all, and it's a good solution all around."
"The solution is very user-friendly and very easy to use."
"It is a user-friendly product in terms of monitoring and updating policies."
"The solution already has security profiles and it can protect from DDoS attacks and other kinds of attacks."
"I find the interface easy to use."
"The product's initial setup phase was really easy."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I find that there have been issues in the past year with the solution hanging. It freezes often."
"Alerts and reporting features must be improved."
"All the thresholds that need to be configured should be included in the default so that user will not forget or misconfigure."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly and it can be more affordable."
"The only thing they need to do is to automate it. Today, you must create tools that do not require the use of an expert or anyone with special skills."
"I would like to see analytics, big data."
"The web interface could be much better."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Fortinet FortiDDoS is ranked 16th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiDDoS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDDoS writes "Offers good technical support but has poor scalability". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy, whereas Fortinet FortiDDoS is most compared with Arbor DDoS, VMware NSX, Radware DefensePro, Fortinet FortiWeb and Imperva DDoS.
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