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."Along with load balancing, we perform a lot of packet inspections, URL rewriting, and SSL interceptions via iRule."
"Traffic Learning is the most valuable feature."
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"The main reason that we suggest this product to our clients is the great integration with other security tools, such as IBM Guardium."
"LTM's most valuable features include application security, data collection, and parameter-level rules."
"The detail that you have available when setting up iRules."
"iRule feature is useful."
"The most valuable feature is being able to manipulate the iRules, so you can send traffic to different avenues."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The solution's hardware quality needs improvement."
"Implementing whitepapers with a lot more applications could easily be added."
"There is a need for a more modular version to concentrate on the current monolithic structure of both the virtual and hardware versions."
"If they made it easier for engineers to get F5 training then it would be better."
"In terms of pricing, it could be more competitive."
"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."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and could be improved."
"F5 BIG-IP LTM can improve on the SSL loading which includes the authentication of certificates. Although, most of these issues have been solved there are still some issue that persists."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"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."
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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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