We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Radware Alteon 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."It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"The iRule feature is very useful for inspecting HTTP. Sometimes, we use it for modifying the headers of the HTTP."
"I have found F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to be stable."
"The stability is excellent."
"The load balancing function, the monitors that you can create, and iRules programmability are most valuable."
"LTM's most valuable features include application security, data collection, and parameter-level rules."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is good."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"The strength of this solution is the application delivery controller."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"The solution has been very stable."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"Technical support could be improved."
"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."
"The pricing could always be better. It's a bit expensive."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"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 user interface of F5 BIG-IP LTM is old and could improve."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution could be more robust."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 44 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 13 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.6. 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, NGINX Plus and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Radware LinkProof, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Fortinet FortiADC. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Radware Alteon report.
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Apart from throughout consideration. Radware license charges based on throughput and F5 charges based on features only. For example, if you buy F5 with an appliance throughput of 10g that throughput available on day one, but if it's Radware, you will get a 1gbps license and hardware has 10gbps throughput. You can only use 1gbps on day one. On the load balancing side, both are equal only I rule is the game-changer. A lot of customization is possible with irule.
For ADC both are very good, But in the leader in Gartner of ADC products, the tops rivals are Citrix ADC and F5
They are very good and can do the job but only some major differences to consider are.
Citrix ADC - Has App Expert Wizard which is a GUI ready to use to build simple to complex traffic syntax rule easily. Any admin that has some good background sees this syntax can understand and configure, it is very easy. This is good for a big complex environment or in case your network admin leaves the job and new one comes to take the role.
GUI; Travesing each menu is very easy as they are all in the same pattern with every feature.
F5 - Use the iRule, which does the same job. If you like to write programming code with lots of { { } }, etc, it's ok. But for many admin teams, it may be hard to troubleshoot the traffics rules if the guy who wrote the rule left, not that hard to learn but still harder than GUI.
GUI- F5 GUI is sometimes too complex than needed, sometimes it's left, right, under have to drill down a lot just to get to the simple tasks.
Overall there are both good.