"The stability is excellent."
"In terms of stability, it is stable."
"F5 has many capabilities for load balancing and web application firewall features."
"The load balancing function, the monitors that you can create, and iRules programmability are most valuable."
"The iRule feature is very useful for inspecting HTTP. Sometimes, we use it for modifying the headers of the HTTP."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) improves the resilience and quality of the application itself, the speed and the user experience for the application. The data that the users need from the application is actually acquired faster. So, it provides faster data acquisition."
"This is a solution that does what it's supposed to do at the price point."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"The load balancing module, which is equivalent to LTM, is the focus of the PSE. So far, the features of both are identical. I believe NGINX has more features for securing these services, but in terms of load balancing, both are massive solutions."
"This solution has everything."
"The solution could improve the documentation."
"An expensive solution for the minimal features we use."
"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."
"A more intuitive interface would be helpful."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"Currently, the product offers everything we need. I can't recall any features that may be lacking."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"Right now, there are a lot of products within F5's portfolio. They acquired a couple of companies like NGINX and Volterra. Some features and technologies overlapped when this acquisition occurred. They need to refine it and come up with a single, proper solution. F5 should focus more on zero trust network access (ZTNA).They should be more focused on that framework because the industry is moving towards that. Everyone is talking about SASE and zero trust."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"The center management system could be improved."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 46 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 6 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Great support, helpful documentation, and is user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Citrix ADC, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. NGINX Plus report.
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