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.
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"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."
"We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to balance traffic."
"It is very intuitive, easy to deploy, and manage."
"BIG-IP can do anything. It's like a Swiss Army knife."
"I think F5's tech support may be better than Citrix's because they mainly focus on the ADC product, but Citrix support covers Hypervisor, XenMobile, FAS, and ADC. And from my experience, sometimes, we face some issues that Citrix cannot handle."
"Traffic Learning is the most valuable feature."
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Currently, the product offers everything we need. I can't recall any features that may be lacking."
"The user experience for dashboards and reports can be improved. They should make dashboards and the reporting system easier for users. They need to add more reports to the dashboard. Currently, for complicated reports, I have to do the customization. It should have more integration with network firewalls to be able to gather all the information required for traffic management."
"Security enhancement should be more user friendly."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"The pricing of the product is a bit too high."
"The deployment can take some time because you can do a lot of configuring to meet the needs of the use cases for clients."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"The solution's initial setup process was quite complex. I"
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"I had a terrible experience with Fortinet support. I only used support once when I bought the solution. I got no response for two days. However, I believe that it's no longer the case. Fortinet solutions have problems when they're launched. For example, we had issues with Fortinet's authenticator when it came out. We also had trouble with FortiNAC in the beginning."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
"Technical support and documentation could both 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, HAProxy and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster, HAProxy and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Fortinet FortiADC report.
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