We performed a comparison between Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We use the HDX protocol, a high-performing component of the Citrix solutions. We also use provisioning to generate VM and NetScaler ADC solutions to propose access to applications for our customers."
"It has made it a single entry point for all users, verging across all the VPCs. It is more of an SSO solution versus multitier user loggin."
"We are using Application Security Manager (ASM) as a web application firewall, where there is a security signature to avoid a web level breach."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"It supports APIs and virtual additions for cloud and VMware."
"I have found F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to be stable."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"It can determine if the system is going down, then route the traffic somewhere else."
"We discussed problems with the network products with the Indian teams. The support center for network products is located in India. There are language barriers and issues with the time difference, so we sometimes face restrictions when dealing with this team."
"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 product is expensive."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"It is a hardware load balancer, and its installation procedure is more complex than a software load balancer. There are pros and cons of using hardware load balancing. You have to have specific hardware deployed in your data center to activate this load balancer. They never came up with any software-based load balancing solution. It is all hardware-based."
"The ASM administration is quite complex. The topic itself is pretty complex, so it is not easy to provide a nice, clean interface. There are a lot of references and dependencies in-between the different subareas."
"Its scalability and deployment should be better. It should be more scalable, and it should be easier to deploy."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"F5 BIG-IP LTM can improve on the SSL loading which includes the authentication of certificates. Although, most of these issues have been solved there are still some issue that persists."
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Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is ranked 19th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is rated 8.0, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management writes "It's a robust and proven solution that we've been working with for many years". 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". Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy.
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