We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Sangfor SSL VPN, and Symantec VIP Access Manager 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 product is quite flexible."
"The load balancing function, the monitors that you can create, and iRules programmability are most valuable."
"I think F5's tech support may be better than Citrix's because they mainly focus on the ADC product, but Citrix support covers Hypervisor, XenMobile, FAS, and ADC. And from my experience, sometimes, we face some issues that Citrix cannot handle."
"Traffic Learning is the most valuable feature."
"It is stable."
"Good application firewall."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The support from F5 BIG-IP LTM is good."
"Sangfor SSL VPN is a secure and user-friendly solution."
"The platform is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is our ability to limit access by user, IP address, or MAC address."
"Sangfor SSL VPN provides secure encryption for communication."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of the product is very easy."
"Cloud-based service and management."
"The VPN we are using is good and working quite well."
"The product is useful for providing user access from an in-built office server as we follow the work-from-home model."
"It offers more platform support, like Apple, Android, and Microsoft."
"The tool has been very stable, in my experience. Also, I haven't faced any issues or problems with integration or connectivity."
"In this version 9.1, lots of changes are done for the dashboard, User Store etc."
"It's a good tool. It's pretty straightforward."
"The two-factor authentication is most definitely valuable and moves us closer to being able to check off those important boxes for compliance."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is expensive. Pricing needs to be improved."
"Security enhancement should be more user friendly."
"Internet and cloud support could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"The deployment can take some time because you can do a lot of configuring to meet the needs of the use cases for clients."
"In terms of native integrations, there is a lot of instability. Also, integration is not robust with F5."
"There is a need for a more modular version to concentrate on the current monolithic structure of both the virtual and hardware versions."
"We would like to see load balancing between the cloud and the on-premise, a straightforward deployment feature."
"No solution is perfect, so there is room for improvement."
"The technical support team takes around two months to respond to queries. It is very time-consuming."
"In redundancy mode, when the firewall goes off, the VPN should be able to connect to the secondary firewall automatically."
"I think Sangfor can provide a web-based SSL VPN version."
"Sangfor SSL VPN should provide advanced protection against ransomware and better data analysis."
"In the next release, I would like the ability to work offline with remote access."
"I would like to see the solution meet the integration needs at our company...Improving the solution's integration feature would be beneficial."
"If they had dashboards or a report for managers or executives, then it would allow them to see the status and have it make sense to them."
"It is challenging to use when installing a new version."
"It gets out of sync with Active Directory or whatever it might be, whatever the authentication piece is on Active Directory, and they just reset it on the backend. I never have to contact the vendor."
"Every time that I have a new phone or computer, it takes a little longer to deploy it."
"The User Store synchronization part needs to improve. Also, the logs, reports, and dashboard can be improved."
"The gateway server is a RADIUS server, but it lacks the functionality of returning RADIUS attributes other than those that are required for the gateway to authenticate the users."
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