We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Fortinet FortiADC 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."The combination of ADC and WAN is good."
"The most valuable feature is being able to manipulate the iRules, so you can send traffic to different avenues."
"The detail that you have available when setting up iRules."
"One of the greatest things about F5 Load Balancer is that it provides additional capability for handling huge workloads and routing them to an SAP or non-SAP application. It is capable of supporting a large amount of user workload and application connectivity workload. This was the main reason why we chose F5."
"The most valuable features are DNS, APM, and ASM. Additionally, it is easy to use and you have a lot of flexibility to use the solution within a network."
"The stability is excellent."
"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 most valuable feature I found is iRules."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Improvements should enable customers to build a tailor-made solution in the future through a service portal."
"The pricing could always be better. It's a bit expensive."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"Technical support could be improved."
"They could improve the product's ease of use. There is some confusion how to operate it."
"I'm not very sure about the security with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). We have our own private data center, but we are going to migrate our private data center into the Azure cloud environment. Security will then be a major concern when we migrate our own whole infrastructure to the public cloud."
"The user interface of F5 BIG-IP LTM is old and could improve."
"An expensive solution for the minimal features we use."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8. 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 Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy, whereas Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Fortinet FortiADC report.
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