We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Ivanti Connect Secure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."NetFlow balancing and traffic balancing are good features."
"It makes the publishing of applications to the Internet safer."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is very easy to use, from SSL Management to enabling, disabling loads, applications, systems, and monitoring. Overall the solution keeps our application functional from a client's perspective 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It supports APIs and virtual additions for cloud and VMware."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Along with load balancing, we perform a lot of packet inspections, URL rewriting, and SSL interceptions via iRule."
"It is customer-friendly. It is quite easy for our users to connect. There is also the flexibility of the features."
"I can safely say this is one of the best solutions I have seen for VPN access. It can achieve what other vendors may not be able to. This product will train you about exactly what an SSL should be. You can leverage it to do whatever you wish, the way you wish to do it. This is the solution if you want a perfectly scalable product for your enterprise that can help your mobile users and integrate with the latest technologies."
"The most valuable feature is being able to securely connect and use virtual desktops."
"The most valuable features of the solution are reliability and uptime."
"It's a very convenient and user-friendly application."
"It's quite stable."
"The tool's most valuable feature is remote access."
"Ivanti secures access to the corporate network from various devices and locations."
"Reporting could be improved and configuration made easier."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"BIG-IP LTM is taking a long time to mature in cloud environments. They plan to improve cloud integration in the next version, but it isn't out yet. It's essential because more companies are moving to the cloud these days and using things like Kubernetes or microservices. F5 needs to improve in that direction, and they are."
"Implementing whitepapers with a lot more applications could easily be added."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager could improve by having an FNI feature for a single source to multi-domain load balancing."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"Security and Reporting."
"I think the logging could be improved."
"Pulse Connect Secure could improve the reporting, it is lacking in detail and should take the report automatically."
"Setup is complex. A few users had some issues with it."
"I don't have any downsides to report about the product at this time."
"The product's price is an area where improvements are required."
"The most valuable features of Pulse Connect Secure are the user-friendly connection and interconnecting."
"User experience and after-sales support could be better. For example, over the last couple of years, when this COVID scenario was going on, there were multiple attacks on these types of solutions. SQL has been attacked numerous times, and there were a lot of vulnerabilities, and our customers had to update and upgrade the devices every two weeks or every month. This was a headache. It could also be more scalable."
"An area for improvement in Pulse Connect Secure is the concurrent connections, particularly needing a license if you want to use Pulse Connect Secure with your Microsoft or Windows machine."
"The solution can be improved by addressing the failure to connect on public 2-step networks."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 3rd in SSL VPN with 25 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.6. 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 Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, OpenVPN Access Server, Ivanti Tunnel, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Symantec VIP Access Manager.
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