We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"Some of the main features of the solution are it has the ability to integrate with our Active Directory to allow each user to have one less password to have to remember and it has great functionality."
"The product is easy to use."
"I like the ability to share the connections or simply to be able to pass the credentials for a connection to other colleagues without bothering too much about the connection being tracked or about security, because each and every user will require a secret password, so I don't really care about sending the details. It's very secure."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It is easy to handle, you can have it on Windows, Mac, and Linux."
"The solution works very well. You just click and it's working."
"I haven’t experienced any issues and the connection is always stable."
"Easy to deploy and has good NAC integration."
"It is the perfect solution when you have high workloads in your IT environment."
"LTM."
"NetFlow balancing and traffic balancing are good features."
"Traffic Learning is the most valuable feature."
"What we like best about this solution is its stability. It is extremely stable."
"I've worked a little bit with iRules and it is amazing."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is good."
"F5 has many capabilities for load balancing and web application firewall features."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"It should autodetect or monitor it, when I am in the office it goes to the network in the office, or when I'm not at the office, it automatically activates my VPN connection."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client can be improved by having better speed and reliability. However, the speed and reliability are already really good."
"There is a speed limit for VPNs because of the encryption."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client could improve by making a feature to set it apart from other competitors."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client would be perfect if it weren't for the fingerprint feature."
"The solution should not rely on tokens from the mobile application for logins."
"More frequent updates would be ideal."
"The logout should be automized and it should have a reminder that you have logged in into a private network."
"An area for improvement in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is that it's a high-priced product."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager could improve by having an FNI feature for a single source to multi-domain load balancing."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"The management interface is unclear, complex, and not concise. I would like a better user interface."
"The solution is scalable."
"The deployment can take some time because you can do a lot of configuring to meet the needs of the use cases for clients."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"I would like to see improvement in the manageability and easier setup."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 69 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client writes "A stable solution that helps users connect to resources when working from home". 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". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Check Point Remote Access VPN and Aruba Remote Access Points, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and OpenVPN Access Server. See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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