We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SSL VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cisco IOS SSL VPN is reasonably priced, and its technology is flexible."
"The solution is very easy to work with. This is its most valuable feature. They also did a good job surrounding how you configure the devices."
"The setup and installation was easy."
"The solution is quite transparent."
"It is a stable solution. In my company, we haven't faced any issues related to the product's stability. I rate the product's stability a ten out of ten."
"Cisco certainly has a really strong support team."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is integrated with domain controller, SSO and MFA."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is an easy-to-use and straightforward solution."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"It is a very good, flexible solution. It helps us to catch up on flaws in our partner solutions on top of its load balancing feature."
"The load balancing function, the monitors that you can create, and iRules programmability are most valuable."
"Load balancing generally brings high availability and a bigger ability to scale out. In some cases, it brings security, depending on how it is configured."
"In my team, we work in a very agile environment and the solutions from BIG-IP, including BIG-IP WAF, suit us well when developing and serving our applications."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We always use technical support and the team helps us very well. They're able to effectively find and fix issues and they respond very quickly."
"Its user interface is very easy to use on a day-to-day basis. It is very user-friendly."
"I have no notes in terms of areas of improvement."
"The pricing is a stumbling block to scaling our utilization of Cisco products and we would prefer to use more of them."
"The solution takes some time to log in because of some unavoidable security barriers, but it would be better if that could happen faster."
"They could provide the cloud-based as-a-service model with monthly rental payments."
"The configuration is critical and complex."
"Multi-factor authentication in Cisco IOS SSL VPN has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"I would like Cisco IOS SSL VPN to provide a faster connection."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN should add a sensor that can authenticate with a fingerprint instead of having to type the username and password every time."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"There are issues with F5 BIG-IP but they are minor issues not affecting production and services. Sometimes the operations and the facility systems fail. However, there is an alert action from the windows. An ordeal for the manager."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"If one virtual portion is unavailable, it can cause issues."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"Right now, there are a lot of products within F5's portfolio. They acquired a couple of companies like NGINX and Volterra. Some features and technologies overlapped when this acquisition occurred. They need to refine it and come up with a single, proper solution. F5 should focus more on zero trust network access (ZTNA).They should be more focused on that framework because the industry is moving towards that. Everyone is talking about SASE and zero trust."
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Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 1st in SSL VPN with 47 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS SSL VPN writes "The solution is very stable and scalable, but it is expensive, and the configuration is complicated". 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 IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Zyxel VPN Client, Ivanti Connect Secure and Citrix Gateway, 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 Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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