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."Provides good performance and speed."
"We can maintain our systems using the solution."
"It performs quite well."
"We haven't received any complaints or performance issues so far."
"The technical support is very responsive and fast"
"Most of our customers are using the load balancing feature and also the verification feature is good as well, in my experience."
"The product is straightforward."
"We have users in a remote environment that might require to access the service."
"We are fond of the load balancing feature for DNS and servers."
"NetFlow balancing and traffic balancing are good features."
"Where we are finding the AWS version helpful is when we are trying to scale up new environments. AWS Marketplace helps here a lot."
"I like that F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a product that comes with valuable features, but what stands out from all features is load balancing."
"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."
"The support from F5 BIG-IP LTM is good."
"It also has an AVR feature: application, visibility, and recording. It's good for customers looking for what is actually happening in their network and where the latency is."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Sometimes the input-output has issues."
"Technical support could be improved."
"If the solution had a more advanced DNS, it would be an improvement."
"If there is an increase in the customer infrastructure, it is not stable."
"Its interface could be made a lot easier. It is very kludgy."
"We have experienced issues relating to multi-factor authentication"
"Lacks access through a mobile device."
"Technical support could be improved."
"I would like F5 to incorporate the ability to create your own custom roles and customised permissions within the product set. I have seen many customers wanting to give a certain level of access for the purposes of out-of-hours servicing to out-of-hours staff or teams that fulfill an operations type role."
"Logging is a bit of a problem. Logging and monitoring are only in plain text. You have to search and you have to know what you are searching for to find anything. So of course, monitoring and getting alerts for abnormal situations is hard. There are no tools for monitoring and alerts"
"The solution could improve the documentation."
"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."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"The logging features are too limited and do not give us a solid understanding of what's happening."
"Implementing whitepapers with a lot more applications could easily be added."
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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, Ivanti Connect Secure and Tailscale, 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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