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."BIG-IP LTM's most valuable feature is that it allows you to seamlessly add more servers without impacting your application's configuration."
"The solution has good load balancing capabilities."
"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 combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"It improves the overall performance of applications by decreasing the burden on servers associated with managing and maintaining applications and network sessions, as well as by performing application-specific tasks."
"The Local Traffic Manager (LTM) provides a simple low balance and SSL decryption, in addition to some TCP parameters, for incoming and outgoing traffic to redirect appropriate traffic patterns to appropriate servers."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"The features that mitigate attacks are very valuable."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"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."
"The most valuable aspect is the ability to customize the types of load-balancing scenarios needed for customized applications. Some of the load balancers on the market today are strictly out-of-hand load balancers for SSL or HTTP. Radware Alteon is most useful for customizing in-house applications based on ports and protocols."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"Its price can be better. It is a bit expensive."
"The solution is scalable."
"The logging features are too limited and do not give us a solid understanding of what's happening."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager could improve by having an FNI feature for a single source to multi-domain load balancing."
"BIG-IP LTM's sandboxing integration could be improved."
"For integration with other AWS environments, we do some tie-ins with some autoscaling groups. This has been challenging for us. We have had issues, where when autoscaling groups scale up, there are some instances which are not showing up in the proper size. Then, those IPs would get registered with F5, but never get released. Therefore, we are ending up with a whole bunch of ghosted IPs."
"There is a need for a more modular version to concentrate on the current monolithic structure of both the virtual and hardware versions."
"In terms of native integrations, there is a lot of instability. Also, integration is not robust with F5."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"Performance could be improved."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
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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 Barracuda Web Application Firewall. 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.