We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Sangfor SSL VPN 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 F5 GTM/BIGIP DNS (Global Traffic Manager) is a valuable feature. This feature allows for DNS load balancing, which means that high availability and load sharing can be done across services locally, as well as across datacenters with advanced capabilities."
"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."
"I like that F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a product that comes with valuable features, but what stands out from all features is load balancing."
"We are fond of the load balancing feature for DNS and servers."
"I've worked a little bit with iRules and it is amazing."
"LTM's most valuable features include application security, data collection, and parameter-level rules."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"It supports APIs and virtual additions for cloud and VMware."
"The most valuable feature is our ability to limit access by user, IP address, or MAC address."
"The platform is easy to use."
"Sangfor SSL VPN provides secure encryption for communication."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of the product is very easy."
"Sangfor SSL VPN is a secure and user-friendly solution."
"They need to improve the interface and some of the functionalities."
"An area for improvement in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is that it's a high-priced product."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"In terms of native integrations, there is a lot of instability. Also, integration is not robust with F5."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. It would be ideal if it was more reasonable."
"For integration with other AWS environments, we do some tie-ins with some autoscaling groups. This has been challenging for us. We have had issues, where when autoscaling groups scale up, there are some instances which are not showing up in the proper size. Then, those IPs would get registered with F5, but never get released. Therefore, we are ending up with a whole bunch of ghosted IPs."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager could improve by having an FNI feature for a single source to multi-domain load balancing."
"The technical support team takes around two months to respond to queries. It is very time-consuming."
"I think Sangfor can provide a web-based SSL VPN version."
"No solution is perfect, so there is room for improvement."
"In redundancy mode, when the firewall goes off, the VPN should be able to connect to the secondary firewall automatically."
"Sangfor SSL VPN should provide advanced protection against ransomware and better data analysis."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Sangfor SSL VPN is ranked 7th in SSL VPN with 5 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Sangfor SSL VPN 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 Sangfor SSL VPN writes "A secure and user-friendly solution that is simple to implement and configure". 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 Sangfor SSL VPN is most compared with Sangfor EasyConnect, Peplink SpeedFusion, OpenVPN Access Server, AWS Direct Connect and Fortinet FortiClient.
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