We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"Tech support has been very quick to respond to all of the needs that we've had. If you want ad-hoc support. They also provide professional services that you can purchase as well."
"LTM."
"Initial setup was straightforward. We were up and running in three hours."
"It also has an AVR feature: application, visibility, and recording. It's good for customers looking for what is actually happening in their network and where the latency is."
"It supports APIs and virtual additions for cloud and VMware."
"The solution's stability is pretty good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is expensive. Pricing needs to be improved."
"Cloud native integration should be provided."
"It would possibly help to get more training, even better in local languages."
"Logging is a bit of a problem. Logging and monitoring are only in plain text. You have to search and you have to know what you are searching for to find anything. So of course, monitoring and getting alerts for abnormal situations is hard. There are no tools for monitoring and alerts"
"The initial setup can take a long time."
"I would like to see better integration."
"An area for improvement in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is that it's a high-priced product."
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Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC.
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