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I mainly use F5 Distributed Cloud Services for WAF, Web Application Firewall. I have been generally satisfied with F5 Distributed Cloud Services in my company.

We are a small company and we don't have many sites, so we have approximately six sites under this WAF, which is nothing too heavy. We have never had problems with F5 Distributed Cloud Services and they are doing a very good job. I can give them even a 10.

I am currently using F5 Distributed Cloud Services in my company as a CISO as a Service.

Distributed Services are valuable. I am dealing with F5 Distributed Cloud Services cloud and Cloud WAF. Technically, I am almost not touching F5 Distributed Cloud Services because I have a colleague that is actually taking care of it. However, we are using it for the company I work for. I am an external consultant.

It is a good option. I think F5 Distributed Cloud Services is the best option on the market.

Regarding the real-time intelligence feature of F5 Distributed Cloud Services, we don't use it and we don't need it. Right now, there is nothing else we need from F5 Distributed Cloud Services. However, I don't know what we might need in the future. We are a small company and we don't have many sites, so we have approximately six sites under this WAF, which is nothing too heavy.

I think we have been using F5 Distributed Cloud Services for something around four years.

Regarding F5 Distributed Cloud Services, it seems to work well. If we would have issues, we would probably open case tickets or service tickets. Right now it is working well and we didn't have any problems. We did have a few configuration questions, but other than this, everything seems to work okay.

The company itself has something around 60 people, but for F5 Distributed Cloud Services, only one person configures it. There is no need for more.

F5's technical support is okay. I used to be an integrator for F5 and I used to work a lot with them. When working with any other support company, F5 are not easy to work with, especially as an integrator that moves from company to company where each company uses F5. When you have a service, you open a service case, and you need to not let too much time pass between checking the file because otherwise, they are closing it. Most of the companies I work with are doing the same. F5 gives you around two weeks and if you are not answering, they are closing the case, so you need to be really quick and work with the customer quickly.

I work in another place and I used to work with Radware in the past, but I stopped immediately because it wasn't very good. Right now in another place, I am checking Citrix WAF. It doesn't seem very strong to me, but this is unlike cloud services that are in the cloud as a SaaS service. I am talking about local services, and I worked a lot with local WAF such as F5 ASM.

I wasn't the one that deployed F5 Distributed Cloud Services, but my colleague that did it didn't seem to have a lot of problems. This person is a kind of a genius, so he doesn't say much.

I know that we purchased F5 Distributed Cloud Services from an integrator.

I am still working with F5 products and also with Palo Alto at the moment. I am working with both Palo Alto and F5. I happen to deal with a firewall only. I did not work with other WAFs before F5. Lately, we don't use other WAFs here. We have approximately six sites that are relatively small sites. I would rate this product a 10.

My main use case for Uplynk is live channels around the clock. Since we're in the television business, we're constantly showcasing shows, and it's a continuous operation.

Uplynk's best features are its stability and its capacity to handle high volumes of traffic. The stability that stands out most to me is the ability to handle traffic spikes, which I would say is the best feature.

Uplynk has positively impacted our organization by bringing us more viewership. It does not glitch and stays stable during spikes in viewership. We've seen approximately a 15 to 20 percent increase in viewership because there's no lag and nothing fails. It's constant, so viewership increased. It allowed our viewers to have trust in what we were providing due to the software.

To improve Uplynk, it should be made more user-friendly, as it takes a lot of moving pieces to make it work. Uplynk is very complex software with many moving pieces. If you're a big company, Uplynk is for you. If you're a small company, consider YouTube Stream and similar software because you're not at the scale yet to be using Uplynk.

I have been using Uplynk for a few years, but my company has been using it for probably ten years.

Uplynk is very stable. Uplynk's scalability is very high and very well scalable.

Uplynk's customer support is amazing, especially when you run into problems. They know everything about their product and they're always willing to support and stay on top of it with you to ensure that you're able to fix the issue at hand.

I wasn't a part of the pricing, setup cost, and licensing discussions, but from what I heard from my colleagues, they said it was really good and it was fair, so they went with that.

Uplynk is deployed in my organization on-premises and is fully on-site.

Uplynk supports our business continuity or disaster recovery plans because it's really well protected and it doesn't lag or crash when there's a spike in all areas. Uplynk helps us comply with regulatory requirements in our industry by keeping us live.

Uplynk integrates really well with other systems or tools we use. You need a whole team to really run Uplynk because there are so many moving pieces, the code, the app, and other components. My experience with Uplynk's analytics or reporting capabilities is that they are especially helpful to update the teams and our stakeholders.

I would describe Uplynk's flexibility or customization options as really easy, really customizable, and it integrates in many areas. Uplynk helps me deliver content to different devices or platforms by allowing us to upload on and stay live on tablets, computers, and televisions. It allows us to stay live to get those viewerships.

Uplynk is a software that saves time, but you need a solid team to run Uplynk to ensure viewership and everything is moving because there are many pieces to keep. I advise others looking into using Uplynk that it takes many different areas: coding, integration, APIs, and all that. It takes a team to run it, and you need to be a big company. If you're streaming and doing all that at a big scale, use it. If you're on a smaller scale, Uplynk is going to be really hard for you to manage. It's not something that's simple; just use the ones that are basic out there if you're an influencer and things like that. I would rate this product a nine overall.