We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SSL VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cisco IOS SSL VPN provides fast connectivity and the option to connect through multiple servers."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is reasonably priced, and its technology is flexible."
"The product is great because it is easy and simple."
"The solution is quite transparent."
"The solution's environment is stable and doesn't get disconnected every now and then."
"Stability-wise, it is a very good solution."
"It's a very stable solution and I'd say it works perfectly."
"Cisco certainly has a really strong support team."
"The F5 interface is easy to use."
"We have found the consistency of the application always being the way it is supposed to be as its most valuable feature."
"The scalability of the solution depends on the sizing of the network. Generally, the scalability is quite good."
"The capability is at a seven or eight out of ten."
"It makes the publishing of applications to the Internet safer."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"The Local Traffic Manager (LTM) provides a simple low balance and SSL decryption, in addition to some TCP parameters, for incoming and outgoing traffic to redirect appropriate traffic patterns to appropriate servers."
"BIG-IP LTM is completely stable, and its performance is good."
"Cisco device management is quite difficult. They should work to simplify this."
"The configuration must be improved."
"The solution's graphical user interface is not very user-friendly."
"The solution does not give us options if the connectivity to one server is not available."
"The administration should be improved."
"The configuration is critical and complex."
"I would like Cisco IOS SSL VPN to provide a faster connection."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Certificate management needs improvement. I would like automated deployment of new certificates without manual intervention to be in the next release of this product."
"Lacking in free training to help users understand the product more, so they would know how to correctly use it. Like other vendors and their products, becoming more proactive is an area for improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"An area for improvement in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is that it's a high-priced product."
"Technical support could be faster. It's something I'd like to see them work on in the future."
"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."
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"There are some aspects of F5 BIG-IP that could be improved, the main one being virtual machine support. We have seen that even with the virtual editions, there are some things that we would like to do that are currently not possible with virtual machines."
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Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 1st in SSL VPN with 47 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS SSL VPN writes "The solution is very stable and scalable, but it is expensive, and the configuration is complicated". 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". Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Zyxel VPN Client, Ivanti Connect Secure and Citrix Gateway, 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 Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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