We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We like is how they integrate nicely with the Oracle PeopleSoft application."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"It supports APIs and virtual additions for cloud and VMware."
"The solution has good load balancing capabilities."
"We have found the consistency of the application always being the way it is supposed to be as its most valuable feature."
"The solution is robust and reliable."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"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."
"I would like to see F-5 implement a regular routing like in other Linux-based devices. When we try and integrate in some complex networks, we have to use some additional routing scenarios from a Layer 3 perspective, then we have some problems. It would be great if this were fixed somehow."
"The solution's initial setup process was quite complex. I"
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"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."
"They need to develop the reporting tools further."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 38th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with . See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Symantec Web Application Firewall report.
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