We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange 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 brand image and recognition and the application delivery controller."
"It is a stable product from a stable company. Recently, they have been more focused on security as well."
"Our experience has been very good, in terms of performance, and securing our application infrastructure."
"The solution is robust and reliable."
"It improves the overall performance of applications by decreasing the burden on servers associated with managing and maintaining applications and network sessions, as well as by performing application-specific tasks."
"The most valuable feature is the F5 LTM (Local Traffic Manager). This is the part of the product most organisations will be using most. It provides the core functionality to be able to load balance services and the means and the intelligence to be able to load balance based on advanced logic, e.g., TCL scripting."
"Great load balancing."
"Traffic Learning is the most valuable feature."
"Sandboxing, DLP, and SSL inspection engine are the most valuable features of Zscaler SASE."
"The most valuable feature of Zscaler Private Access is the categorization of the dynamic URLs which keeps the customer's environment protected. The threats and the malware are correctly categorized."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Private Access are its ability to integrate with multiple IDPs and application segmentation."
"The VPN is great for the stability on offer and for the cloud updates and insights you can get."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Private Access are reliability, scalability, and availability."
"SASE's most valuable features are proxy and content filtering."
"I like the web filtering capabilities."
"The solution offers a simplified network infrastructure and security functions and it enables secure remote access for the users"
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"I would like F5 to incorporate the ability to create your own custom roles and customised permissions within the product set. I have seen many customers wanting to give a certain level of access for the purposes of out-of-hours servicing to out-of-hours staff or teams that fulfill an operations type role."
"It would possibly help to get more training, even better in local languages."
"Improvements should enable customers to build a tailor-made solution in the future through a service portal."
"The web interface could be better."
"Implementing whitepapers with a lot more applications could easily be added."
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"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."
"There is some issue while accessing the portal. It takes too long."
"We'd like to have two-factor authentication that is quite simple."
"Zscaler Private Access's reporting is poor. We should have more insight into the reports regarding what is blocked and allowed."
"The pricing for Private Access seems to be on the expensive side, and I believe they should consider making it more competitive with other solutions."
"There is improvement in enhancing proper manageability, policies, and logs. So, log management could be improved."
"SCMP support would be one of the biggest improvements in my opinion. More speed improvements are also required."
"It has a limitation, if you are creating a rule or something for a web application or something, you could only add five users, not more than that. Five or four users are only included in a rule. If you want to create a rule for more than five or four users, you have to go through other methods, not particularly with the application. Working within the application with this method would be quite easy as compared to listing a URL or a normal IP address."
"We often face performance and latency issues with Zscaler SASE."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is ranked 1st in ZTNA as a Service with 34 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is rated 8.4. 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 Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange writes "Allows for strict access control, granting access to specific applications at a URL level rather than at the physical IP level". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and Barracuda Load Balancer ADC, whereas Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Axis Security, Cloudflare Access and Perimeter 81.
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