We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Radware Alteon 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."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 most helpful thing is that it's open-source. It's very easy to program and customize."
"I think F5's tech support may be better than Citrix's because they mainly focus on the ADC product, but Citrix support covers Hypervisor, XenMobile, FAS, and ADC. And from my experience, sometimes, we face some issues that Citrix cannot handle."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"I was able to simply and quickly set up the WAF rules and security, and also set up easily complex policies and rules which gave me some great features to redirect."
"I have Big-IP change and control manager, which give me the roll back option. Therefore, I can view the last things which happened on the device."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is brand image and recognition and the application delivery controller."
"F5 BIG-IP is used with good applications and functions as an application firewall with additional features. We will not use any feature or any service unless there is a business case and there is a need for implementation."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. During the time that I have been using it, it has not undergone a service failure... And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The product offers high availability."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"There are not very many areas for improvement, but the price is high."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"Technical support could be faster. It's something I'd like to see them work on in the future."
"Its price can be better. It is a bit expensive."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"The synchronization does works fairly well. However, if I were to make changes, I would make it easier to start the sync process."
"Not everything is intuitive."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"Performance could be improved."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
"The solution could be more robust."
"The user interface can be improved."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC, HAProxy and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Radware Alteon report.
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Apart from throughout consideration. Radware license charges based on throughput and F5 charges based on features only. For example, if you buy F5 with an appliance throughput of 10g that throughput available on day one, but if it's Radware, you will get a 1gbps license and hardware has 10gbps throughput. You can only use 1gbps on day one. On the load balancing side, both are equal only I rule is the game-changer. A lot of customization is possible with irule.
For ADC both are very good, But in the leader in Gartner of ADC products, the tops rivals are Citrix ADC and F5
They are very good and can do the job but only some major differences to consider are.
Citrix ADC - Has App Expert Wizard which is a GUI ready to use to build simple to complex traffic syntax rule easily. Any admin that has some good background sees this syntax can understand and configure, it is very easy. This is good for a big complex environment or in case your network admin leaves the job and new one comes to take the role.
GUI; Travesing each menu is very easy as they are all in the same pattern with every feature.
F5 - Use the iRule, which does the same job. If you like to write programming code with lots of { { } }, etc, it's ok. But for many admin teams, it may be hard to troubleshoot the traffics rules if the guy who wrote the rule left, not that hard to learn but still harder than GUI.
GUI- F5 GUI is sometimes too complex than needed, sometimes it's left, right, under have to drill down a lot just to get to the simple tasks.
Overall there are both good.