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."Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"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 most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"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."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"Scalability should be based on customer requirements."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"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."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"The user interface can be improved."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 6th 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, F5 Advanced WAF and Radware LinkProof. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. Radware Alteon report.
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