We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to balance traffic."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"Routing and load balancing are its most valuable features."
"It makes the publishing of applications to the Internet safer."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"iRule feature is useful."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"Since we are using this tool for protection purposes we really appreciate the hybrid security abilities; the main idea here is that we powerful protection our application needs."
"Logging is a bit of a problem. Logging and monitoring are only in plain text. You have to search and you have to know what you are searching for to find anything. So of course, monitoring and getting alerts for abnormal situations is hard. There are no tools for monitoring and alerts"
"Performance: Using the product, applications are jittery."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"I would like to see better integration."
"There are not very many areas for improvement, but the price is high."
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"In terms of pricing, it could be more competitive."
"We would like to see load balancing between the cloud and the on-premise, a straightforward deployment feature."
"There is a need for expanded licensing terms and options. There's also a need for improved and more agile customization features. The user needs to be able to manage each policy as required; the functionality needs to empower the user. There should be a complete suite of desktop provider policies available to users. Overall, it needs to be more user-friendly."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is ranked 41st in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is rated 7.0. 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 NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall writes "Offers Application Protection Against Web Attacks". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is most compared with .
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