We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Access solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Among its most valuable features is how it quickly and easily connects everyone to the VPN service."
"The team has full visibility of the users that connect allowing them to keep control of who is in the network and what data they are allowing to come in and out."
"It is easy to install the Endpoint Remote Access VPN client to different platforms."
"One of the features that I like most about this software is that it has a very intuitive, simple, and versatile interface that makes it easy to use and configure."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless access."
"Setting policies allow, block, and limit users' access."
"It can improve an organization by providing secure access to resources for traveling employees, which can help to reduce the risk of data breaches or other security incidents."
"It is a scalable solution...The technical support team of the solution is very good."
"Traffic Learning is the most valuable feature."
"One of the best features of the solution is the operating system."
"I've worked a little bit with iRules and it is amazing."
"Stable and scalable network traffic management solution for applications. It has good performance."
"It is a scalable solution."
"F5 BIG-IP is used with good applications and functions as an application firewall with additional features. We will not use any feature or any service unless there is a business case and there is a need for implementation."
"This is a solution that does what it's supposed to do at the price point."
"Good application firewall."
"We would like to implement HTML5 (clientless access) in the product without installing any additional software."
"Bug Fixes and enhancement requests should be remediated earlier."
"When you need to create something, you have to follow many steps and I think that should be simplified."
"Sometimes we have some small problems with Check Point Remote Access VPN. For example, problems with authentication."
"We would like to see support for a layer seven VPN over UDP."
"In my organization, there aren't Linux users, however, I know it has difficulties offering secure access for customers who use this operating system."
"The Compliance software blade is available only for the Windows operating systems family, so no macOS security checks are implemented and performed."
"You have no ability to reserve a total number of licenses. The VPN user licenses are assigned per gateway, and if you enable MEP function is not so easy to size the gateway licenses."
"They could improve the product's ease of use. There is some confusion how to operate it."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"The auto logout feature after three minutes is terrible. I wish they would make that longer, since it is not a feature that we can change."
"In terms of native integrations, there is a lot of instability. Also, integration is not robust with F5."
"The solution is scalable."
"To improve the product, they could add more load balancing solutions in Kubernetes."
"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."
"A lot of functions that are attributed to iRules can actually be simple profile changes. iRules do have a certain performance impact. Therefore, instead of writing simple iRules, they can create certain profiles for classes that will perform the same function."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 4th in Remote Access with 60 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Fortinet FortiClient and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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