We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is it helps our delivery team to make policies and rules for application."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"It has so many features. First of all, it has a full proxy architecture, it has multiple modules. The best feature is the WAF, the web application firewall module. It also has cashing type capabilities. It has all kinds of load-balancing algorithms based on your IT requirements."
"In terms of stability, it is stable."
"Initial setup is easy and pretty standard."
"Currently, it's distributing the load perfectly, as per my understanding of our requirements."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is IP Intelligence."
"Along with load balancing, we perform a lot of packet inspections, URL rewriting, and SSL interceptions via iRule."
"The three most valuable features that I noticed are the geo-localization of the user, the IP reputation, and the compartmental analysis."
"The UI could be improved."
"A more intuitive interface would be helpful."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"Security and Reporting."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"It is a hardware load balancer, and its installation procedure is more complex than a software load balancer. There are pros and cons of using hardware load balancing. You have to have specific hardware deployed in your data center to activate this load balancer. They never came up with any software-based load balancing solution. It is all hardware-based."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is sometimes a bit cumbersome to deal with some builds, although that's gotten significantly better over the years."
"BIG-IP LTM's sandboxing integration could be improved."
"The area that should be improved is licensing."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) is ranked 33rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) writes "Geo-localization and IP reputation help to keep our clients secure and more available". 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, whereas R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) is most compared with AWS WAF and Akamai App and API Protector.
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