We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and SecureLink 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 has TCP LAN and WAN optimization features. It has has caching."
"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 stability is excellent."
"We are using Application Security Manager (ASM) as a web application firewall, where there is a security signature to avoid a web level breach."
"The most valuable feature I found is iRules."
"The main reason that we suggest this product to our clients is the great integration with other security tools, such as IBM Guardium."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is synchronizing the limited access for partners or sub-contractors."
"It would possibly help to get more training, even better in local languages."
"The analytics should provide insight into latency across various traffic routes and virtual servers."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"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."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is sometimes a bit cumbersome to deal with some builds, although that's gotten significantly better over the years."
"It's a very expensive solution."
"While the licensing is good through the AWS Marketplace, it is more expensive than what you could buy yourself."
"Currently, the product offers everything we need. I can't recall any features that may be lacking."
"The security features offered in SecureLink are not enough."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while SecureLink is ranked 38th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while SecureLink 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 SecureLink writes "Efficient technical support with good synchronization features, but it needs better security". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas SecureLink is most compared with Citrix Gateway, OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks.
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