We performed a comparison between Airlock and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."Our customers are more than satisfied with the user experience provided by the product."
"It is the perfect solution when you have high workloads in your IT environment."
"Routing and load balancing are its most valuable features."
"F5 BIG-IP is used with good applications and functions as an application firewall with additional features. We will not use any feature or any service unless there is a business case and there is a need for implementation."
"F5 Big-IP Local Traffic Manager has better modular features especially LTM, which according to the clients, is very beneficial. Most of the users opt for a combination of big IP LTM and WAF which helps them to leverage application load balancing and enhance application security many-fold."
"The capability is at a seven or eight out of ten."
"The load balancing function, the monitors that you can create, and iRules programmability are most valuable."
"The F5 GTM/BIGIP DNS (Global Traffic Manager) is a valuable feature. This feature allows for DNS load balancing, which means that high availability and load sharing can be done across services locally, as well as across datacenters with advanced capabilities."
"The most helpful thing is that it's open-source. It's very easy to program and customize."
"The tool must be simplified."
"Fixing bugs."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"The synchronization does works fairly well. However, if I were to make changes, I would make it easier to start the sync process."
"We would like to have integration into encryption and PKI integration with SafeNet. That is probably the key component in using External PKIs, letting people bring their PKIs with them."
"The UI could be improved."
"In terms of native integrations, there is a lot of instability. Also, integration is not robust with F5."
"The solution could improve the documentation."
"There is a need for a more modular version to concentrate on the current monolithic structure of both the virtual and hardware versions."
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Airlock is ranked 22nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 1 review while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Airlock is rated 10.0, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Airlock writes "Provides endless features and can be adapted to every single application that exists in the world". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". Airlock is most compared with AWS WAF, Human Defense Platform, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC.
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