Radware Alteon Reviews

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.

When our companies separated, we converted an F5 config to Radware, which is much easier to operate overall. The upgrades were smooth with F5, but Alteon works better for our small team. Operationally, the care and feeding process is more straightforward, and it's easier to learn how to use the load balancer side of the tool. The AppWall portion is a little more complicated, but the load balancer is effortless to learn. 

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.

Our services are protected, and I have not seen any breaches that would impact our systems. The systems are stable, and I can very clearly see all of the malicious actors outside trying to access our systems.

It helps with troubleshooting immensely because the solution protects not only from threat actors outside of our business but also from internal actors or partner clients accessing our systems. Those requests are also validated inside Radware Alteon. I can see client partners or users accessing some systems in the wrong way or any misconfiguration inside our systems. Radware Alteon prevents our systems from breaking down because of those wrong requests. It has saved at least 40% to 50% time.

The integrated application protection on the other side of the load balancer is great. There is the caveat that it is not easily pre-configurable on that side, but everything after that is easy. When the services are up and running, the feedback, the insight, and the forensics of the happenings inside are very easy to understand and work with. The system automatically suggests what needs to be configured and what can be mitigated or refined in configuration. All of those are making my day easier.

Its implementation time took about half a year, and it took us about a year and a half to realize its benefits.

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.

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.

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. 

We began seeing benefits immediately. This technology is necessary for availability in IT. Alteon helps us troubleshoot issues. It provides us statistics on application, server, and load balancer response that we can use to identify problems or latency. 

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

Alteon makes it easier and quicker to spin up services when other departments come to us to deploy applications.

And its analytics have helped us save time, at least an hour or two in a typical scenario, when it comes to troubleshooting.

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. 

Our agency launched several programs recently. For example, they're encouraging people to plant trees, and they need to upload a picture of the tree to the portal within a given window. Our previous load-balancing system failed to overcome that challenge. 

We needed improved application performance and availability during peak traffic. Traffic needed to be distributed evenly across data centers to prevent overloading and provide visibility into real-time performance and metrics. The government agency chose Alteon for its advanced load-balancing and application optimization features. There were immediate benefits in load-balancing and application performance.

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

The delivery has become faster. The user experience has improved. 

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

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.

Another benefit of using Alteon is the support that Radware, as a company, provides. They are very fast and that is key because the availability of our exposed services is always very important to us.

We realized these benefits immediately, with highly available servers without service interruptions. We have two servers, which, thanks to the virtual services that Alteon has, can be quickly balanced. Our services are always up. The time-to-value was almost immediate. The high availability of services helps avoid losses and any instability that might result in intermittent services.

We have high availability for both our servers and services, thanks to the virtual service that Alteon manages. We have two Alteon teams internally, so if one data center suddenly has a problem, the other data center still functions. That means we have an immediate solution. When one is not there, the other immediately takes control.

We go to the analytics, to the graphs and to the logs, where we can identify problems and failures. We have it configured to send us notifications and alerts when a service is slow or does not respond for some time. With the alerts and the logs, we are able to further verify the graph of the services and their states of health. That helps us a lot to quickly find out if we have a problem and find solutions. We can save 80 percent of the time it used to take to investigate a case because it makes it much easier and simpler for us to find an issue.