We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), OpenVPN Access Server, and Safe-T Secure Application Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."It is stable."
"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."
"One of the best features of the solution is the operating system."
"The stability is excellent."
"it has TCP LAN and WAN optimization features. It has has caching."
"If I were to choose one key feature in particular, perhaps it would be the iRule feature. It’s a really versatile tool."
"LTM's most valuable features include application security, data collection, and parameter-level rules."
"We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to balance traffic."
"OpenVPN Access Server is very stable."
"Provided the easiest UX for our end-users and had the greatest interoperability with all the operating systems we used, including but not limited to: iOS, Android, OS X, Windows, and Linux."
"OpenVPN Access Server provides remote secure access."
"The compatibility with almost any Linux operating system, and how easy it is to write scripts and generate keys for people to use and log in. I found it easy to deploy quickly."
"It was very easy to set up users."
"Highly configurable. You can create your own custom client installer and can rebrand the server-side program."
"OpenVPN Access Server allows us to establish a secure connection to an IP address that would otherwise be inaccessible without using a VPN."
"It is open-source and free to use."
"the security level is very high. After we tested it and checked all the security aspects of the product, we found that it's highly secure."
"It's easy to use over the web. A user who is not in the office can use it and securely insert files."
"If you want a very flexible system that you can easily integrate, and develop interfaces for it or plug-ins to other application environments, it's probably the most flexible"
"Safe-T is very good for users because it has plug-in for Outlook."
"Certificate management needs improvement. I would like automated deployment of new certificates without manual intervention to be in the next release of this product."
"I would like to see better integration."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. It would be ideal if it was more reasonable."
"Cloud native integration should be provided."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"The SharePoint SSO part has some room for improvement."
"They need to improve the interface and some of the functionalities."
"I'd like the solution to have more access points and more speed."
"The stability of the OpenVPN Access Server has room for improvement."
"Open VPN Access Server could be more user-friendly."
"There sometimes is an incompatibility between some VPNs."
"It would be nice with all these features, if they could send some examples of each one; just small sample scripts to look at and say, "Oh okay, I could expand on this." That would help us a lot."
"The logs should be made easier to read."
"There was one annoying feature where we had to disable and enable the user. I cannot remember what it was exactly, but I think it was for a password lockout. It would be nice if there was a checkbox, or something, in the web interface to allow you to unlock a user whose password was locked."
"I would like to see a simpler interface, so that we can make the connection between the local network using the LAN IP."
"One important thing that we haven't found in this product is the ability to provide a read-only view for documents. Also, the ability for the customer to add annotations to these documents."
"The Outlook agent is not working well for installing it in the entire office."
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