We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC 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."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."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"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."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate 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."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"Fortinet has some drawbacks, and it can be a bit challenging to scale."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Radware Alteon 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 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". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and Imperva DDoS, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Radware LinkProof. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. Radware Alteon report.
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