We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and F5 VIPRION (EOL) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."It is an easy way to build application policies (graphical)."
"It provides first-tier firewalling, for you application. And it provides server load-balancing, it provides optimization, and it provides a proxy feature, where your users cannot directly access your server. It acts as a fully proxy architecture. It has client-side and server-side connections, both, and they're separate."
"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 most helpful thing is that it's open-source. It's very easy to program and customize."
"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."
"The initial setup is easy."
"BIG-IP LTM is completely stable, and its performance is good."
"The most valuable feature is the vertical scaling of the application infrastructure."
"There are several levels of module so a company can upgrade if necessary."
"The solution itself is perfect. It's easy to configure and we haven't had any initial issues with the hardware or power supply."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL upload."
"The deployment can take some time because you can do a lot of configuring to meet the needs of the use cases for clients."
"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."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"The initial setup can take a long time."
"In terms of native integrations, there is a lot of instability. Also, integration is not robust with F5."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"A more intuitive interface would be helpful."
"Fixing bugs."
"The pricing for this solution should be reduced so that it can be more competitive."
"It's hard to scale down the solution. You need to buy another product in order to do this."
"It's unfortunate that the network firewall isn't really a next generation firewall."
"The initial setup is complex but it is manageable."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while F5 VIPRION (EOL) doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while F5 VIPRION (EOL) is rated 8.6. 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 F5 VIPRION (EOL) writes "Excellent for internal business core applications and has the ability to scale up as necessary ". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas F5 VIPRION (EOL) is most compared with .
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