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Akamai Ion vs Radware Alteon

Akamai Ion
3 Ratings
Radware Alteon
1 Rating

Akamai Ion

3 Ratings
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Score 9.7 out of 100

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Radware Alteon

1 Rating
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Score 1 out of 100

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Likelihood to Recommend

Akamai Ion

  • Akamai Ion is excellent if you have the staff to manage the configurations and understand how best to leverage its benefits amidst ongoing Dev work without getting in their way. You'll have to communicate consistently on what the CDN does and does not do as well as drive knowledge sharing sessions on expected behavior or unexpected behavior to help reduce unnecessary troubleshooting from your IT and Dev teams when tickets/issues arise.
  • Akamai Ion is best suited for well equipped and well informed IT or Marketing teams that can leverage the delivery benefits of caching and offload. Doing so will increase customer satisfaction, reduce bounce rates, improve conversion rates as well as drive more time on site.

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Radware Alteon

These devices caused more problems for our company than benefits, I would never recommend these to colleagues.

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Pros

Akamai Ion

  • Ease of management with good UI for making rules and behaviors.
  • There is also an API and Code integration for the advanced Dev-Ops team to use as well.

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Radware Alteon

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Cons

Akamai Ion

  • The learning curve on using a CDN is steep and requires class time. The initial onboarding and integration with the business' DevOps teams should be a bit closer relationship.
  • Global vs. Regional management can be a bit challenging if your account is centralized overseas, and you want a local time-zone account manager on your time.

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Radware Alteon

  • The software web application is beyond terrible, in most of the cases the web was broken or did not have similar functionality the command line interface had.
  • The command line interface wasn't a natural looking interface, it was very fumbled and while it ran on Linux, the interface was all menus and sub-menus.
  • When enabling different pools for different web services, when a new pool was activated, the old pool connections were all reset instead of allowing HTTP sessions to naturally expire.

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Support Rating

Akamai Ion

Akamai Ion 9.0
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  • Support for tickets has gotten better/quicker over the years.
  • Also, there is a wealth of information on the knowledge base, documentation, and there is also a message board too now.

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Radware Alteon

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Alternatives Considered

Akamai Ion

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Radware Alteon

We moved away from Alteon to F5 BigIP LTM and just by swapping out the hardware, we saw 40% speed increase in our applications. Everything else is much improved as well, from the web interface to the command line to the API.

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Return on Investment

Akamai Ion

  • Improved conversion rates.
  • Reduced page load times.

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Radware Alteon

  • While running on these devices, every release caused many interruptions in service and caused thousands of dollars of lost revenue.

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Pricing Details

Akamai Ion

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Radware Alteon

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

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