We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"It is a fast and available solution."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure."
"It provides first-tier firewalling, for you application. And it provides server load-balancing, it provides optimization, and it provides a proxy feature, where your users cannot directly access your server. It acts as a fully proxy architecture. It has client-side and server-side connections, both, and they're separate."
"LTM's most valuable features include application security, data collection, and parameter-level rules."
"It is very intuitive, easy to deploy, and manage."
"It helps us recognize sessions from certain IPs that are authorized to manage the application. This is a function we haven't found anywhere else."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is a stable and reliable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the proxy."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"F5 could improve the rule-setting capabilities in the GUI, and they need to simplify web management. For example, the menus in the Citrix GUI are easier to navigate, with a clean structure and layout."
"They need to develop the reporting tools further."
"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."
"If they made it easier for engineers to get F5 training then it would be better."
"The pricing of the product is a bit too high."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"The initial setup can take a long time."
"In terms of pricing, it could be more competitive."
More F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Pricing and Cost Advice →
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". 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". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, 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.
See our list of best Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) vendors.
We monitor all Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
