F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Scalability

RP
Sr. Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable so I rate scalability an eight out of ten. 

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Nabil Magdy - PeerSpot reviewer
IT security Engineering manager at Banque du Caire

I rate the scalability of F5 BIG-IP AFM an eight out of ten.

We have four units of approximately 20 engineers using this solution in my company.

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RP
Sr. Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

It is scalable. There are 20,000 to 30,000 people who use it on a daily basis. Their roles vary from content editors to content viewers at different levels of the organization. Its usage might increase.

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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
April 2024
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Michael GEgziabher - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Bank of Abyssinia

More than 1,000 users use the solution in our organization.

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William Gonzalez - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Comercial at Ngeek Consulting "Suigeneris Tech"

Advanced Firewall Manager scales well with a flexible SKN architecture, allowing easy capacity and high availability expansion. This scalability extends to hybrid setups, enabling consistent policies and configurations across on-premise and cloud environments through the BigIQ solution. It ensures seamless synchronization for efficient management.

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JM
Head: Cyber and Information Research Centre at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

The solution is scalable, but there are costs involved.

We have approximately 10,000 users using the solution. The solution is being used daily.

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Nazmul Huda - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer, Senior Executive Vice President at Midland Bank Plc

Our organization has 1000 F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) users. It is a scalable platform.

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Ritesh-Bakhru - PeerSpot reviewer
Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

It is a scalable solution. 

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Oleksii Pavlyk - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of the direction of ensuring the security of digital systems, electronic databases and networks at Ukreximbank

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager is a scalable solution. Two administrators from IT use the solution for load balancing, and two administrators from security use it for WAF.

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John Bayangos - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability would be based more on the hardware aspect. I'd rate its ability to scale at a six or seven out of ten, since it is rather fixed. It's still hardware and not fully virtualized, which makes scaling limited. 

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DejanBlagojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at Exclusive-networks

The scalability and cost-effectiveness of the solution is really good. Hardware appliances can forward some crazy amounts of traffic. However, this is not like all other firewalls. Scalability is pretty much somewhere in the middle. You always have some additional models on the same hardware or even in virtual machines. In general, it's not good, and it's not bad. You need to take everything into account.

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OB
Executive of the Telecommunications Area at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability of F5 BIG-IP AFM has been very good.

We have approximately 3,000 users using this solution in my company. If we have another system we will increase our usage.

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HA
Senior Presales Consultant at Innovative Solutions

The solution is scalable. 

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Md. Al Imran Chowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Analyst at Link3 Technologies

The application is scalable.

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SC
Contracted IP Development Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable because it doesn't depend on hardware. If you run this product on a Viprion, it will be scalable, but not too much. If you run the same product with the same version in a standalone device or on a virtual system, you will use the power and scale of the associated device. It's scalable because you are able to use the same product in different hardware. If you buy a powerful server, and you can scale your F5 as a virtual system easily.

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it_user989274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at Datasure Solutions

F5 is also highly scalable. You can easily upgrade from one version to the next or even upgrade the machine. The hardware is scalable. We can and have easily upgraded a deployment either by turning on or applying a license. As for the machine, you can upgrade the physical hardware or you can use a virtual machine because they have a Virtual Machine Edition. The scalability is versatile and straightforward.

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MH
Senior Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

They have many options to scale. They have a very stable, versatile FM, but we rely on the physical units. I can see that it's very scalable. Whatever you want to add, you can add to the same cluster.

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RB
Founder / Senior Security Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is very scalable. Companies should not face issues when they need to expand. 

We have 20 enterprises using the solution currently. They are mostly banks.

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JA
Technology Consultant / Cloud Security Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's not as easy to scale because you have to purchase new hardware to scale up.

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Buyer's Guide
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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