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Radware Alteon Valuable Features

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

I find the best features to be the flexibility and ease of use. The configuration is very straightforward. 

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

The most valuable feature is the support from the engineering team. They quickly resolved a VLAN issue that other vendors could not. The product allows us to manage multiple networks and VLANs into a single box and add numerous web services and farms efficiently. The SSL management and integration capabilities are also standout features.

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AZ
CISO at Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federacion

Alteon's integrated application protection helps us to protect our endpoints and our systems. CloudWAF is user-friendly and can be deployed with ERT. The learning time and processes you need to pass through are easy with CloudWAF.

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Radware Alteon
June 2025
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Vivek Nadiminti - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Engineer Security at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Valuable features of Radware Alteon include global server load balancing, SSL offloading, Layer 7 load balancing, automation and traffic scaling, real-time analytics, and reporting.

Alteon's integrated application protection has helped us. As a state government agency, we face increasing threats and need to secure our critical web applications. 

Our finance websites are the primary targets for DDoS, SQL injections, and other sophisticated attacks. Traditional security is insufficient to defend against the volume and complexity of the attacks. We need protection against attacks on the application and infrastructure layers and DDoS attacks. Alteon offers visibility and actionable insights into each security event. 

Radware has free training available on their website. I've completed a few training courses and found them very helpful for me in my daily work. The basic course covering the UI takes a week, and it was easy to understand. When we're troubleshooting a scenario, we can check the Alteon knowledge base articles. The combination of training and the knowledge base shortens the learning curve. 

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

The round-robin distribution of the load is quite useful. It's fantastic. We've never faced any issues. 

The load balancing technology has improved our service performance.

We are using the server load balancing and then for Internet load balancing. We have two ISPs in my company which provide  the internet. I am using 100 Mbps on one, 100 Mbps on the other. If one is running at 80%, the other is running 60%, I'm getting almost 150%. So instead of using a single link, I'm able to use both.

Since business performance is critical, we like that we can take advantage of high availability.

Since implementing the solution, the performance has increased in my stores. It's helped us serve customers better and faster by at least 25%.

I've seen a 10% improvement in time to value.

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Gaurav-Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at DXC Technology

I like how easy it is to create policies in Alteon. Debugging and SSL offloading are also simple, and the global load-balancing part is good. Load-balancing and SSL offloading are the two features that ensure your virtual services work perfectly. 

You can deploy any application or service in One Arm SLB Configuration. In one-arm mode, both are in the same subnet, so it's effortless to deploy. We can take the application owner in the same IP range and deploy it. Our application should work easily, and it's simple to debug. 

In most cases, we are trying to deploy in one-arm mode, where the IP range is the same. You can also deploy in two-arm mode, where we deploy it two times and use the reverse proxy. Radware Alteon supports both modes. 

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

The most valuable features include the availability with an optional high-availability mode ensuring service continuity because of the resiliency. The interface is really good and easy to navigate, which makes configuring and managing settings quick. The support from Radware is consistently excellent and always available. It has helped reduce troubleshooting time by fifty percent, given everything is in the interface.

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

The best thing about Alteon is its automated threat detection and blocking. The university has resource limitations. I am the only one working for the security section, looking after seven products, including Alteon. The automatic blocking of threats and detections is crucial for us. Because there are a lot of things going on, we sometimes miss or do not see the detections on time. So, the most useful thing for us is to have a WAF that automatically blocks anything unusual or suspicious.

It is efficient and low maintenance. Once you set it up, you do not have to go back and look into it. It gives us peace of mind that if something comes up, it will block that.

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

The most valuable aspect of Alteon is the availability it provides for our services. The availability of services is very important for any company, and especially for us since we are a port with many internet-facing services.

In addition, the solution is very dynamic and easy to manage.

Another excellent feature is the integrated application protection. It is an excellent product with many features that serve to protect our company. The services we provide are of vital importance, so their availability and protection with Alteon are truly important.

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

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 backend 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've used the application performance monitoring features 100,000 times to get backup captures out of it because it's offloading some traffic. It helped several times because I can take a packet capture out of it and analyze it myself. I don't know if the load balancer did anything for me besides allowing me to take those static captures, but it helped in those aspects.

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

I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature.

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

SSL offloading feature is one of the most important features. Traffic distribution is also done very well by Radware.

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

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. In a large infrastructure like ours, there are always failures. But in our case, those failures are usually related to third parties and never due to Alteon Radware.

And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore.

Radware's visualization tool, Vision, also provides a lot of information in case of failures. It has helped us to understand very complex problems in one or two hours. It is very agile.

At the security level, it also contributes a lot. It has many security features and is very elastic and adaptable. If, for example, you have in-house security implemented, or you want to migrate it to the public or private cloud, it's very easy to change the licensing and integrate it.

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

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. It is also easy in terms of overall support. The installation itself was very easy. These are the most likable features about Radware load balancers.

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

At the corporate level, it is a very effective tool and it’s very simple. It shows us reports on the state of health of the services that we have configured, in terms of load balancing.

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

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. We are able to define policies and use techniques to contain these types of situations when they arise. As a security tool, it is very important.

Radware's solutions are very complete, and the integration among some of them—which, in some cases, we have not yet implemented but plan to—has given me peace of mind, knowing we have a robust tool with suitable solutions for all company cybersecurity issues.

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

The best features are the

  • security through the web application firewall
  • functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it
  • ease of administration.

The integrated application protection is very good.

Pretty much every feature is as promised.

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MaverickHurley - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr network arch at Mohawk Industries

The most valuable aspect is the ability to customize the types of load-balancing scenarios needed for customized applications. Some of the load balancers on the market today are strictly out-of-hand load balancers for SSL or HTTP. Radware Alteon is most useful for customizing in-house applications based on ports and protocols.

Another great feature is integrated application protection. There are many features you can activate. Some of them are add-ons, such as WAF protection, DDoS, rate-limiting, and connections-per-second per application.

We also use Radware where we do all the programming.

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

The simplicity of the GUI is what I like the most about Radware Alteon. It provides logs about all of our application's transactions, which allows us to trace problems and identify issues such as TLS problems. The analytics help us pinpoint the root cause of various issues, enabling solutions with given analytics abilities.

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

It's quite a nice solution. It's like F5. They are very good products and are very easy to use. They're very powerful, you can do a lot of things with the scripting, and also even in the interface and the graphic interface, you can configure other things without going to the scripting, to the rules.

The initial setup is easy and it was quick to deploy.

The solution has been very stable.

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

The UI is user-friendly. 

The cloud features are valuable.

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

The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware.

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

I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use.

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

The best thing about Radware is the command line interface which is simple and very user-friendly. This is a very good device because it's easy to configure and easy to troubleshoot. Radware provides numerous guides including configuration, CLI, and troubleshooting. That is a very useful thing to troubleshoot, to configure our Radware devices. 

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RR
Senior consultant Cybersecurity

The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use.

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CarlosLopez - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber security analyst at Fujitsu

The SSL uploading feature is helpful, and every vendor has it. It terminates the full connections and takes care of all the power required for the backend servers to process the SSL load. Radware Alteon also makes our environment and web applications more scalable because the devices are half-sequence and specifically designed to handle web traffic and SSL web traffic.

These devices work as hypervisors on the cluster that we have on-premises. We can run virtual applications and delivery controllers inside them. We can also isolate resources and environments. In addition, Radware Alteon has a helpful scripting engine for automation called AppShape+.

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

The most valuable feature of Radware LinkProof is that it supports link load balance.

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CarlosLopez - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber security analyst at Fujitsu

The error detection system is very valuable. When an error is encountered, the WAF blocks an illegitimate user and sends a message. The message contains a transaction ID that can be matched in the locks of the AppWall. So, it's not hard to investigate these events when people write an incident because some illegitimate user is often trying to use this web that is protected behind the WAF and getting errors.

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

The DGP, routing, L2, and L3 switches are the most valuable features of the Radware LinkProof.

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

This solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application.

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MukulRustagi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Engineer - Security at PureSoftware Ltd

I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable.

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

The simple and well-documented configuration allows us to be able to implement new balancing services at the request of the user with the same conditions and good service that they expect. We can also make changes to services that are already running, as I mentioned before, the graphical interface is very intuitive and you can almost always make the most common changes quickly.

Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service.

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

The link load balancing is a great feature. We use it whenever two or three different links need to be integrated for a customer. When one link goes down, it automatically switches to another. 

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RaynielBadiola - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Secur Links

The solution is very user-friendly and based on my experience handling the Radware app, especially the AppWall, it's a convenient product to use and, to my mind, one of the best AppWall solutions on the market. AppWall can be integrated with different platforms and has an EMS, a mitigation solution that is integrated with their AppWall for communication.

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

At this moment we have only used the web application firewall. We have the bot manager too. The bot manager is useful due to the fact that your service is working in preventing the botnet and doing a lot of transactions. 

We get some firewall reviews on the dashboard and it is useful for looking for alerts or attacks. It can tell you what the users do in the application and how they're using the application.

The initial setup is pretty easy.

The product offers high availability.

The stability of the solution is very good.

You can scale the solution if you need to.

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

The most valuable features are the load-balancing and reverse proxy. Global-loadbalancing as well is valuable.

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RaynielBadiola - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Secur Links

The solution offers good performance and scalability. You can start with minimum requirements of the throughput, and then add your required throughput as your network requirement increases. Increasing from one throughput to a higher-level throughput requires a license upgrade. This is a user-friendly and easily configured ADC product and rates in the top three solutions in its category. 

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

The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting. When you have a problem with a server, it will alert you.

It is useful in many areas, especially for web applications and load balancing. It's something that the customer can see on the internet.

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reviewer1333236 - PeerSpot reviewer
SecOps at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I like the concept of self-service in which I can do everything on my own. 

They are very competitive with the price. Their solution could be successful in other organizations but they're not mature as an API solution. It has a nice dashboard, you can watch clean traffic coming to the end service but the reporting requires more improvement.

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TX
Manager with self employed

The performance and stability are the most valuable features.  

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Samir Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO / Managing Director at Infinity Access Technologies Pvt Ltd

Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure. The hardware is robust. 

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RaynielBadiola - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Secur Links

The features that mitigate attacks are very valuable.

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RB
Consultant at Altran

The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security. 

The hardware is strong, we don't have any failures. 

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it_user854055 - PeerSpot reviewer
Threat Intelligence Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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 support is really good, the training offered is also valuable.

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

Resources per application: You can dedicate to a business-critical app or multiple apps.

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

Radware's application delivery controller (ADC) provides advanced and comprehensive application delivery capabilities, ensuring 24/7 availability.

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TA
Solution Specialist at South Asian Technologies

The most valuable feature of Radware LinkProof for traffic distribution is its DNS management capability. Similar to Linux's feature for managing DNS requests, LinkProof can dynamically redirect traffic by responding to DNS queries with the appropriate IP addresses. This ensures seamless access to applications even if the primary server fails, improving overall reliability and customer experience.

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Buyer's Guide
Radware Alteon
June 2025
Learn what your peers think about Radware Alteon. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
861,170 professionals have used our research since 2012.