SANGFOR technologies ADC

Sangfor Technologies

Sangfor Technologies ADC provides cyber security, enterprise cloud, endpoint protection, enterprise security to protect & optimize your network & IT.

SKUDONET

SKUDONET® began its public release in October 2010, and we have not stopped refining security, scalability, and high availability technology ever since.

Sangfor’s Strengths

• Has products tailored to meet specific needs in the Chinese Market such as language localizations.
• Can meet common ADC requirements in terms of functionality and performance at an attractive price point.
• Sangfor Technologies ADC offers an integrated solution with the most relevant ADC features.
• Has shown consistent investment in its ADC products, improving security and GSLB features while expanding the capacity of its hardware portfolio.

SKUDONET’s Strengths

• Disruptive vision with a stable growth as challengers in the ADC market, with an agile team and engaged community.
• Innovation driven with Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud).
• Very high cost-effective solutions without limitation products and services, suitable for both midsize organizations and large enterprises.
• Investment in R&D to deliver a technology driven by easiness, performance and security.
• Is a complete ADC (Application Delivery Controller) that could manage all kinds of network protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP/S, SCTP, SIP, T/FTP, …) but also with a combination of all of them simultaneously and multiport capabilities; and it’s not oriented to licensed features.
• Its operating system is fully optimized for networking so it is capable to move in layer 7 more than 140 thousand concurrent users and in layer 4 more than 10 million concurrent users with only 2 dedicated cores.
• Ability to create configuration backups, easy cluster configuration, automatic replication from one node to another and stateful cluster with real time sessions replications that permits a failover between nodes without losing any connection.
• Provides an integrated IPDS security system with real time black hole lists, DoS protection, black/white listing and protection of the most common network attacks.
• Provides a very UX graphic interface for both operators and network engineers in Angular 2 technology.
• Automation capabilities thanks to it’s fully programmable REST+JSON API.

Sangfor’s Weaknesses

• The roadmap lags behind most competitors in terms of addressing experimental or not fully defined initiatives.
• Sangfor Technologies ADC has a small footprint and limited channel reach outside of China and SouthEast Asia.
• Does not offer low friction light weight versions of its ADC software and has not yet integrated its software into the marketplace of popular cloud providers.

SKUDONET’s Weaknesses

•  Young brand as an open source company and yet to develop a big influence than other more established vendors.
•  Needs to develop a broader partnership network.