We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and OpenVPN Access Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Five out of five ROI."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"It allows us to give access to our office network in a safe and secure way to users, no matter which computing platform they use. "
"The initial setup was easy."
"Highly configurable. You can create your own custom client installer and can rebrand the server-side program."
"The setup is easy."
"I like that it's free."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"There is support for multi-factor authentication."
"The features I have found to be most valuable are the levels of encryption I can enact and the compression I can apply to improve throughput."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"Open VPN Access Server could be more user-friendly."
"They may have this already, but it would be nice to be able to get more notifications if a site drops unexpectedly."
"I'd like to have more control over the users when they are accessing the network."
"The interface could be a little bit better in future iterations."
"The product’s connectivity is very slow. It could be faster."
"Working on a faster connection might be a good idea for the product's next release."
"You do need expertise in implementation if you do the initial setup yourself."
"It would be nice with all these features, if they could send some examples of each one; just small sample scripts to look at and say, "Oh okay, I could expand on this." That would help us a lot."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 21st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 9 reviews while OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 45 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenVPN Access Server writes "An easy-to-use tool with which its users can access networks from home or external locations". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Sangfor SSL VPN, whereas OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN and SonicWall Netextender. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. OpenVPN Access Server report.
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