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.
his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application.
Technical Specialist - Network & Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jun 3, 2020
I can say the difference between both high end devices as F5 BIG-IP 4200v and Radware Alteon 5224XL comparission,
1. Layer 4 Throughput of F5 BIG-IP is 10 GBps whereas Radware Alteon is 8 GBps.
2. Layer 4 Connection per second of Radware Alteon is 480000 whereas F5 BIG-IP is F5 BIG-IP is 300000 only.
3. Layer 7 Connection per second of Radware Alteon is 190000 whereas F5 BIG-IP is F5 BIG-IP is 100000 only.
4. SSL Transaction per second wise Radware Alteon is 11200 whereas F5 BIG-IP is F5 BIG-IP is 9000 only.
5. SSL Bulk Throughput of F5 BIG-IP is 8 GBps whereas Radware Alteon is 4.1 GBps only.
6. Compression rate of F5 BIG-IP is 8 GBps whereas Radware Alteon is 3.6 GBps only.
Total Solution System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Jun 4, 2020
For ADC both are very good, But in the leader in Gartner of ADC products, the tops rivals are Citrix ADC and F5
They are very good and can do the job but only some major differences to consider are.
Citrix ADC - Has App Expert Wizard which is a GUI ready to use to build simple to complex traffic syntax rule easily. Any admin that has some good background sees this syntax can understand and configure, it is very easy. This is good for a big complex environment or in case your network admin leaves the job and new one comes to take the role.
GUI; Travesing each menu is very easy as they are all in the same pattern with every feature.
F5 - Use the iRule, which does the same job. If you like to write programming code with lots of { { } }, etc, it's ok. But for many admin teams, it may be hard to troubleshoot the traffics rules if the guy who wrote the rule left, not that hard to learn but still harder than GUI.
GUI- F5 GUI is sometimes too complex than needed, sometimes it's left, right, under have to drill down a lot just to get to the simple tasks.
Overall there are both good.
I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use.
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.
The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly.
The strength of this solution is the application delivery controller.
The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware.
The link load balancing is a great feature.
his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application.
The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use.
The solution has been very stable.
I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable.
Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service.
The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting.
The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy.
It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size.
The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security.