We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Universal Access Gateways solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."For our use case, it was scalable. There were at least 25 end users using this solution from remote locations. And once the connection was established, there weren't any complaints."
"I didn't have any hiccups or issues with it."
"The stability of the solution is perfect."
"The technical support is very responsive and fast"
"It's easy to use. Also, the deployment part is perfect."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very stable. If I were to rate it out of ten, I would give stability a nine."
"It's a stable solution while it's running. We don't have to work on it a lot. There are not many bugs, so it's easy to use if you deploy successfully. You can be sure of an uninterrupted solution for quite a long time. Citrix is a good product."
"We enjoy its overall ease of use."
"The detail that you have available when setting up iRules."
"I've worked a little bit with iRules and it is amazing."
"We like is how they integrate nicely with the Oracle PeopleSoft application."
"It is a fast and available solution."
"The solution is easy to install. It's a straightforward process."
"It is a stable product from a stable company. Recently, they have been more focused on security as well."
"BIG-IP can do anything. It's like a Swiss Army knife."
"The initial connection could be faster. That handshake takes a few seconds sometimes. That could be better and improved upon."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Its interface could be made a lot easier. It is very kludgy."
"As an organization, our initiative is to move to the cloud, Citrix Gateway needs to improve its cloud capabilities and make the cloud solution more robust."
"If there is an increase in the customer infrastructure, it is not stable."
"I would like to see improved logging because it doesn't keep much information for the session monitoring or historical sessions."
"While connectivity is not something that is under Citrix's control, if the connectivity is spotty, it can be difficult."
"The major issue is price. I would also like them to make other aspects more accessible."
"We need best-practice information. They have something called DevCentral and a blog. But we want something from F5 itself regarding how to tackle the false-positive configurations. If you go into detail with so many configurations it will find so many false positives from the moment it is enabled that it will quickly impact your applications, and it will not work."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"The pricing could always be better. It's a bit expensive."
"I would like to see better integration."
"We would like to see load balancing between the cloud and the on-premise, a straightforward deployment feature."
"It would possibly help to get more training, even better in local languages."
"If we decide to migrate to the cloud, I don't think that BIG-IP is a good solution and we probably won't use it."
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Citrix Gateway is ranked 1st in Universal Access Gateways with 33 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". 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". Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Ivanti Connect Secure, 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 Citrix Gateway vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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