We performed a comparison between A10 Networks Lightning ADC and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 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."It allows you to secure the application while balancing the connections for many other customers, reducing CPU usage and server load."
"What I like about Lightning ADC, is that instead of having a big appliance sitting in front of the Kubernetes cluster, Lightning can pretty much go inside of Kubernetes."
"Our clients appreciate that this is a security enabled solution."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"Great load balancing."
"It offers features Kemp doesn't provide. For example, there are predefined templates for handling Office 365. You can download them for automatic configuration."
"The capability is at a seven or eight out of ten."
"There is a lot of documentation available."
"This is a solution that does what it's supposed to do at the price point."
"The product is very stable. We put a decent amount of stress on it given our load."
"ASM for WAF."
"We would like to see some improvement in the rapidity with which we can customize security facts within the solution."
"The support from A10 should be improved."
"A10 documentation is not as open and accessible as AWS and Azure documentation is."
"F5 could improve the rule-setting capabilities in the GUI, and they need to simplify web management. For example, the menus in the Citrix GUI are easier to navigate, with a clean structure and layout."
"I would like to see improvement in the manageability and easier setup."
"The pricing could always be better. It's a bit expensive."
"Fixing bugs."
"Its scalability and deployment should be better. It should be more scalable, and it should be easier to deploy."
"The product is expensive."
"Native support for containers should be added to future releases, as this is the future of load balancing."
"The price for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is very high. This aspect could be improved."
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A10 Networks Lightning ADC is ranked 16th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 3 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. A10 Networks Lightning ADC is rated 7.0, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of A10 Networks Lightning ADC writes "Efficient application security while optimizing connections". 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". A10 Networks Lightning ADC is most compared with A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Kemp LoadMaster, 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 A10 Networks Lightning ADC vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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