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Radware Alteon Primary Use Case

reviewer2626179 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Its use case involves protecting our external services in the business.

It is a necessity because of the different security standards that our company has to comply with.

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reviewer2663061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

We use the product for our web services across multiple web farms. It manages SSL load balancing and SSL offload, meaning SSL management is handled at the load balancing level. Additionally, we use it for SSL renewal and management, which simplifies the process rather than managing each individual server or farm.

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CISO at Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federacion

Radware technology ensures the availability of all our applications. I represent a government institution that administers elections, so we have several critical systems that must stay online. In addition to Alteon, we use CloudWAF, CloudDDoS, and FireProof. 

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Vivek Nadiminti - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Engineer Security at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We're an agency of a state government in India, and our primary use case of Radware Alteon in our organization is for load balancing and application protection.

We have to load-balance among multiple departments within the state government. Around 12 people manage Alteon, and the solution covers roughly 20 departments. 

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Ajay Tyagi - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have six to seven servers behind the scenes and a single IP. We use this product as a server load balancer.

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Gaurav-Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at DXC Technology

We use Alteon to load-balance application traffic.

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HI
IT Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We primarily use Radware Alteon for load balancing our servers to ensure there are no bottlenecks and to have resiliency in place.

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Ayesha Lata - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Solutions Engineer at Fiji National University

We use Alteon to secure our main web applications against web-based attacks such as SQL injections and DDoS attacks. We have around 36 VIPs on Radware, and we protect all our published sites, including those for FNU.

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JorgeBlanco - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Analyst at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

We use it for balancing all of our services and our servers.

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reviewer2157408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use Alteon as a web application firewall and also for load balancing. It has an integrated firewall inside of Alteon that we use for our public-facing web servers. The Alteon hardware is deployed at one location, but we use virtualized appliances in our DR environment. The company has around 5,000 employees and about 150,000 customers. We have about $7 billion in revenue annually. 

They have different lines of the same series. I believe we're on 6024, so ours is an older line. We can't get some of the features because it doesn't have the hardware to support them. However, the code is seamless across the platforms. The D Line is the new one.

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Bikash Kumar Dash - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Operation Manager at Fluentgrid

We are using Radware Alteon in our data center as a link load balancer, service load balancer, and ADC.

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reviewer2209827 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Alteon is used in our environment for the application traffic from the customers. The traffic is coming from outside the network. It then comes to the firewall. From the firewall, it goes to the load balancer which sends the traffic to different application servers in a distributed environment.

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CC
Ingeniero de telecomunicaciones senior at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use Alteon for application load balancing, channel balancing, and high availability of applications through LDT in the cloud.

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reviewer2102988 - PeerSpot reviewer
EVP, Chief Digital officer and head of Cybersecurity at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We are a data center company, and we need load balancers at our end so that the load is balanced. These are network load balancers, and they are helping us to balance the overall traffic at our end. Because we are a data center company, we host a lot of customers. We host more than 800 customers in our data center, and that itself is a big use case. Earlier, we were using it only in one data center, but now, we are using it in two data centers, so we have two load balancers, one at each site, and we are about to configure global load balancing between both of them.

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Boris Monterrosa - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

We use it as a source for the delivery of services and we have many applications. It is the core of our business in terms of supporting those applications.

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Humberto Castillo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Coordinator at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

We implement the load balancer for everything related to the input and output of connectivity services to or from the internet. We have two channels of connectivity to the internet through which we publish services.

With load-balancing, we have the ability to receive traffic using both channels, through Alteon, and when one of them is affected, we're able to access the internet through the other. We already have that part configured.

We also use it for security issues regarding the WAF, trying and applying policies for companies, so that our web applications published to the internet are covered by that security layer.

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reviewer2244450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees

We have deployed Alteon to our cluster to provide load balancing of the applications. We also utilize the security functionality, which is a WAF on top of the load balancing.

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MaverickHurley - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr network arch at Mohawk Industries

We use it to load balance all of our applications within our data center and our EDI solutions.

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SB
Infrastructure Network and Security Specialist at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

I am using Radware Alteon as a load balancer. It's used to simplify balancing connections between servers for a larger application in my organization. This allows me to manipulate many applications to better serve my organization.

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Santiago Castro - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at a sports company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is basically used for load balancing. We do build for load balancing as well. We have several load balancers in the physical and cloud space. We started using it for GTM and also use it for some iRules scripting and to modify the SDP draft.

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RT
Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We use Radware Alteon for data protection and security compliance.

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Maverick Hurley - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect-Network Services-Global at Crown Castle USA

We are using Radware Alteon as a web application farm for all of our on-premise websites and as a reverse proxy.

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TN
Senior Network Engineer at a cloud solution provider with 201-500 employees

We use it as a load balancer.

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Imran Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at Orange Business Services

We use Alteon to load balance our client traffic between different servers. We provide client support for deploying, configuring and troubleshooting. 

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RR
Senior consultant Cybersecurity

My organization used the solution as a load balancer to balance the traffic on our application servers.

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CarlosLopez - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber security analyst at Fujitsu

The vendor usually overloads the devices with a lot of functionality. The strength of this solution is the application delivery controller. The best functions are load-balancing services and multiple backend servers.

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Saurabh-Pal - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Radware LinkProof is used for link load balancing. Whenever many servers are connected with Radware LinkProof, users can use their logins to use a firewall. And when a firewall is unavailable, Radware LinkProof automatically switches to another firewall.

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CarlosLopez - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber security analyst at Fujitsu

Our primary use case for the solution is protection. We have just one web application protected behind this AppWall, and it is automatic with the default configuration. This device periodically downloads new threat signatures from Radware, and most of the time, we let the device AppWall handle the traffic and block the threats that it thinks are ahead.

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reviewer2168895 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The solution is used for load balancing.

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Preshit Lanjekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Network SME at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I use this product as a web application firewall.

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Alberto Guerrero - PeerSpot reviewer
Jefe de implementaciones de Datos at RETO Industrial S.A. de. C.V.

We use Alteon Radware to balance web page services hosted on real and virtual servers, these government portals must be available 100% of the time and must be accessible from the internet and intranet. In addition to the fact that we can add an extra layer of security (due to the use of virtual IP address and proxy IP address) When there is an impact on any of the servers, we receive an alert notification and we can attend to the impact on that server, for the end-user, this is indistinct since the service is not affected.

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Saurabh-Pal - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

This is an appliance device and its primary use case is for server load balancing and gate load balancing. I'm an engineer and we install and configure this solution for our customers. I'm a system integrator and our company is based in India. 

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RaynielBadiola - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Secur Links

We implement this product for application security, to protect servers from attacks. We are the local distributor of this solution in the Philippines and I'm the technical manager.

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Cybersecurity Architect at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

At this moment we have the home web page at the enterprise with an application firewall. We have 21 applications that we need to upload to the cloud. At this moment we have only one, and we working in the next three months to upload at least five more applications.

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reviewer1245708 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of consulting at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

I am a consultant, and I have customers who purchase Alteon Box. I help them with the design and architecture. The primary use case is mainly for load balancing internal applications, for internal-facing customers, as well as external customers on the internet.

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RaynielBadiola - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Secur Links

This product is a load balancer and it can link load balance to multiple ISPs. If one ISP goes down, it will automatically be redirected to the next available ISP.

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reviewer1415232 - PeerSpot reviewer
SOC Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We use this solution for web application load balancing.

We use it because we have several servers and we needed to distribute the traffic.

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Technical Specialist - Network & Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We use it for inbound traffic. We have web access portals. 

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TX
Manager with self employed

My primary use case is for outbound traffic link load balancing.

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RaynielBadiola - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Secur Links

The solution basically protects the web applications of our customers.

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RB
Consultant at Altran

Our primary use case of this solution is for security for the data center. We have a private on-prem deployment model.

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GL
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Load balancing data traffic.

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RT
Sr system engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

A Radware Alteon load balancer is a hardware device that acts as a reverse proxy and distributes network or application traffic across a number of servers. Load balancers are used to increase capacity (high-availability) and reliability of application. Load balancers ensure reliability and availability by monitoring the health of applications, and only sending requests to servers and applications that can respond in a timely manner. They improve the overall performance of applications by maintaining application and network sessions, as well as by performing application-specific tasks.

Load balancers are generally grouped into two categories: layer 4 and layer 7. Layer 4 load balancers act on data found in the network and transport layer protocols like TCP/IP, FTP, and UDP. Layer7 load balancers distribute requests based on data found in application layer protocols like HTTPS, HTTP. 

Requests are received by both types of load balancers and they are distributed to a particular server based on a configuration algorithm.

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TA
Solution Specialist at South Asian Technologies

I use Radware LinkProof to optimize our network by balancing multiple WAN links. It ensures uninterrupted access to applications by automatically redirecting traffic from failed or congested links.

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Buyer's Guide
Radware Alteon
June 2025
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