We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Wallarm NG WAF 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 iRule feature is very useful for inspecting HTTP. Sometimes, we use it for modifying the headers of the HTTP."
"Tech support has been very quick to respond to all of the needs that we've had. If you want ad-hoc support. They also provide professional services that you can purchase as well."
"it has TCP LAN and WAN optimization features. It has has caching."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is good."
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"The product is quite flexible."
"The most valuable feature is being able to manipulate the iRules, so you can send traffic to different avenues."
"Bandwidth optimization and capacity awareness of the bandwidth are valuable features. Its video streaming capabilities are also very useful."
"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and could be improved."
"To improve the product, they could add more load balancing solutions in Kubernetes."
"Improvements should enable customers to build a tailor-made solution in the future through a service portal."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"The ASM administration is quite complex. The topic itself is pretty complex, so it is not easy to provide a nice, clean interface. There are a lot of references and dependencies in-between the different subareas."
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"The SharePoint SSO part has some room for improvement."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"The biggest problem for us was the stability and speed using the first version of Wallarm. Now, it is fine."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Wallarm NG WAF is ranked 33rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Wallarm NG WAF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wallarm NG WAF writes "Active threat detection and adaptive rules are the most valuable for us". 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 Wallarm NG WAF is most compared with Salt Security, Noname Security, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF and Cloudflare.
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