We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Secure and scalable traffic management solution for applications. Good for bigger environments."
"We like the capability to combine the content switching with the intrusion prevention and adding the security roles, so we can expose certain sub-pieces outside without exposing everything."
"We have multiple solutions we can deploy through the F5."
"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."
"It can determine if the system is going down, then route the traffic somewhere else."
"Routing and load balancing are its most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature I found is iRules."
"It is a very good, flexible solution. It helps us to catch up on flaws in our partner solutions on top of its load balancing feature."
"Since we are using this tool for protection purposes we really appreciate the hybrid security abilities; the main idea here is that we powerful protection our application needs."
"The auto logout feature after three minutes is terrible. I wish they would make that longer, since it is not a feature that we can change."
"The synchronization does works fairly well. However, if I were to make changes, I would make it easier to start the sync process."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. It would be ideal if it was more reasonable."
"I would like to see improvement in the manageability and easier setup."
"They need to improve the interface and some of the functionalities."
"The one gap I saw was that pure LBN integration is a little tricky. The insertion of F5 in LBN is a little tricky. They need to work on something, on products by which they can insert F5 in any sort of cloud environment."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"There is a need for expanded licensing terms and options. There's also a need for improved and more agile customization features. The user needs to be able to manage each policy as required; the functionality needs to empower the user. There should be a complete suite of desktop provider policies available to users. Overall, it needs to be more user-friendly."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is ranked 41st in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is rated 7.0. 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 NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall writes "Offers Application Protection Against Web Attacks". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is most compared with .
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