We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Loadbalancer.org, and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I like that F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a product that comes with valuable features, but what stands out from all features is load balancing."
"The scalability of the solution depends on the sizing of the network. Generally, the scalability is quite good."
"We always use technical support and the team helps us very well. They're able to effectively find and fix issues and they respond very quickly."
"F5 has many capabilities for load balancing and web application firewall features."
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"We like the capability to combine the content switching with the intrusion prevention and adding the security roles, so we can expose certain sub-pieces outside without exposing everything."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"In terms of stability, it is stable."
"We have about 30,000 connections going through at any one time and it's fine, it doesn't seem to sweat. It doesn't get overloaded."
"Existing customers are trying to migrate from the physical F5 load balancer to the AVI load balancer because it is scalable and easily managed."
"The user interface precludes need to be well versed with Linux IPVS command line. This make it easy for junior team members to participate in managing load balancing needs."
"The support we have received from Loadbalancer.org has been good."
"We can more easily set up a test environment, because you can easily configure your forms. It makes it more flexible for us, to convert our test environment to a production environment, without having to change DNSs on the outside. You just configure the forms on the inside. So without changing the actual endpoint for the end user, we can create completely different networks in the background."
"For now, it's stable."
"With basic network knowledge, our required system functionality can be configured and maintained."
"The connection that this solution helps our servers maintain has been most useful."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will be a challenge for us."
"The solution is scalable."
"Not everything is intuitive."
"Security and Reporting."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is sometimes a bit cumbersome to deal with some builds, although that's gotten significantly better over the years."
"The pricing of the product is a bit too high."
"To improve the product, they could add more load balancing solutions in Kubernetes."
"They're mostly designed to balance a particular type of traffic. I wanted to load balance DNS, and they just don't do it the way that we wanted to. So they're not used as DNS load balancers."
"Originally we had some stability issues with it, so they replaced it with a new box and it's fine."
"I'd like to see scalability improved; it can be costly."
"The automatic refresh of the System Overview webpage: It sometimes has an extra webpage reload (after a change) before you see it is executed. This can be confusing."
"It doesn't have the bonding capability feature."
"An area for improvement in Loadbalancer.org is that sometimes it works fine, but sometimes, it has issues. The setup for Loadbalancer.org is also complex, so that's another area for improvement."
"I would like it if Loadbalancer had the ability to make rules for specific shared bots."
"Loadbalancer.org's complexity could be reduced."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"It can be improved by combining the web application firewall (WAF) facility."
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