F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Primary Use Case

Ritesh-Bakhru - PeerSpot reviewer
Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

F5 Big-IP Local Traffic Manager has multiple use cases that serve as both layer 3 and layer 7 load balancers. It places a very important rule in the microservices environment and functions as an ingress controller for microservices.

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Mahmoud-Yassin - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure and Security Operations at United Arab Bank

I work for a bank, and we have a mobile banking app with around 25,000 users.  We use LTM for load balancing on the internal network, and the web feature helps us fill holes in application security due to vulnerabilities in legacy applications. 
It also provides perimeter protection against DDoS attacks and SQL injection. 

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SE
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I used F5 BIG-IP LTM for the backend load balancing for the servers.

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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
March 2024
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RP
Sr. Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use cases for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager are high availability for applications and SSL offload certificates.

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JO
Senior Network Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It is for internal load balancing of servers.

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AC
Senior Technical Consultant at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

I basically work for the solutioning only, so I've been migrating the F5 from the existing chassis to the new chassis for the last three years. Before that, I was a part of operations so I was working to support any incidents on F5. 

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OD
Design and Conception Engineer at SFR

Our engineers use various products from the F5 BIG-IP range when creating application solutions. Primarily, we make use of F5 BIG-IP's ASM (Application Security Manager) and WAF (Web Application Firewall). For most of our applications, we require that our servers, and server-related software, are hosted in virtual machine environments.

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RJ
General Manager at Seriti Resources

We have deployed it for two customers. One uses the local LTM for load balancing the application. The other uses it as a raft and for load balancing.

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Saurabh-Pal - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

For my clients, the primary use cases include load balancing, both for server and link load balancing.

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Mohammed Abdul Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
F5 Consultant at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The primary use case of this solution is for reverse processing applications and services. 

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JS
Operator at Capgemini Engineering

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to balance traffic. 

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KS
Senior Security Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited

We use this product to hide true identity of our web servers from external users while balancing the loads of those external users. 

For load balancing, we have various load balancing method. We can define these methods at the node or pool level. 

We are retail users and have lot of websites for online businesses to prevent attacks. On those sites, there is a WAF module that we also use, which prevents attacks on it. 

It acts as a reverse proxy for our web servers, and we can use certificate to protect from attackers and send encrypted traffic to F5 which then decrypt and passes to the internal server after encrypting again using a server-side certificate or sending in plain form.

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KV
Principle Architect (retired recently) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

In the last two years, the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager implementations for a client had pointers, primarily ones pointing inwards to the onsite cloud-type systems, but they also did have pointers to some cloud-service-based instances as well. So it was actually doing a bit of hybrid. 

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Michael-Yuen - PeerSpot reviewer
COO at International Household Retail Company Ltd

I am using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for load balancing. For example, I create the virtual server, and in there we have a pool and member server. This is used for simple load balancing.

We are using the on-premise and cloud versions of the solution.

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MI
Tax Department at a government with 10,001+ employees

We're offering services to citizens who access them over the internet, and we use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for load balancing between many physical servers or backend servers.

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MD
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

In terms of our primary use cases - all our web services, our main web portals, and our TV service sit behind the F5, so any customer would have to traverse our F5 for the services at the back of it.

It serves our backend and front end services.

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TH
Senior IT Engineer at Lumeris

We use it primarily for WAF.

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KO
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For everything, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is used. We used it for our exchange server before migrating to Teams, and then for Skype. It currently operates several large broadcasting and streaming services.

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EF
Managing Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

When we migrate workloads into the cloud, we need the same functionality in the cloud, and low balancing is part of that. Being able to manage the platform on cloud, the same as on-premise, is the use case.

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Saneesh Pv - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at GBM

I use the tool as a load balancer to distribute user traffic across different servers. It is used for scalability purposes. Depending on the amount of traffic that comes in, I can send that traffic to different servers and load-balance it. Also, the web application firewall protects our servers and applications from cyberattacks.

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John Bayangos - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

We usually use the product for load balancing, as a web server, and for web traffic.

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MariosChristodoulou - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer at F.P. eSafe Solutions LTD

The product can be used for many applications including load balancing and GLB's overload balancing. It depends on the module. If there's a public APM you can use it for WAF and many other use-cases. 

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Roni Wijaya - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President of It Operations at Artajasa Pembayaran Elektronis

We use the solution for its load balancing and web application firewall features.

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MahesaPutra - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales at Efficient IT Systems Ltd

The use case for F5 includes ADC, WAF (Web Application Firewall), network firewall, and CGNAT in one platform.

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MahesaPutra - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales at Efficient IT Systems Ltd

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) has EC, WAF, firewall, network firewall, and CGNAT in one platform.

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AhmedYoussef1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at Westcon-Comstor

F5 BIG-IP LTM is used for delivering applications and protecting the application from web attacks.

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KL
Head of Presales at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

BIG-IP LTM is mainly used to load balance applications.

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UmeshKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I mainly use LTM to protect applications.

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Rajnish Niraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Fencesense

The solution is used for deploying applications.

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UzochikwaEnunwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise architect at Kyndryl

We use it for server management and application traffic, that is, to load balance between traffic for applications coming from their service. Users coming in are then able to have their traffic go to the service that has the suitable resources or adequate resources.

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Nirav_Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Architect at MindTree

We use it to publicly deliver applications.

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OD
Security IT Manager at IFAT Group

We primarily use the solution for security purposes.

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BE
Network Security Engineer at Data Consult

F5 delivers a full range of solutions that simplify service providers’ security architectures while mitigating threats. The full proxy architecture of F5 solutions also allows service providers to attain extensive visibility and control throughout layers 4 through 7. This enables granular control of all connections, more extensive security functionality, and comprehensive end-to-end protection against DDoS and other attacks. F5 solutions protect targeted network elements, the DNS infrastructure, devices, and applications with features that include application health monitoring, a robust web application firewall, web access controls, TCP optimization, web acceleration, L7 DDoS protection, and broad SSL support, including SSL inspection and offload.

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YA
Co-Founder and CEO at PT Eugenea Kreasi Utama

I am a reseller. We provide solutions to our clients.

We use F5 for various applications as our firewall.

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MA
Security Technical Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I use F5 BIG-IP LTM to balance the load across multiple servers hosting a website or web application, ensuring none get overwhelmed. It is handy for ensuring that services like my email server or database stay available and responsive, even if one server goes down. Plus, it is not just for web traffic; it can manage traffic for any TCP or UDP-based service, like FTP or SIP.

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Abduh  Rumfot - PeerSpot reviewer
It Security Consultant at juke

We are using F5 BIG-IP LTM for our application which is a reverse proxy. We use it for availability, and to process the application because it is used in the financial industry.

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AR
Sr. SAP Portfolio Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use it for load balancing any kind of HTTP and HTTPS traffic coming from users or other systems.

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RS
DevOps Manager at TaxACT

We use it for low balancing.

It has been in our environment for four to five years, but I have only been using it for a little over a year.

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WM
Network and Security Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for our applications. We have six applications and 16 servers currently. We make all our applications and utilize this tool. Some applications are published on LSM.

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LM
Sr. Network Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) as a load balancing solution. We use many of the features associated with the solution, such as the Local Traffic Manager and Access Analytics that are associated with the SSL.

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MS
Director of Network Strategies and Technologies at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The F5 is something we purchased for another project that has not been turned on just yet.

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GJ
Staff Engineer at UbiNavi

This is for remote access to an internal network of the organization to do all types of work. The requirement for VPN is secure with high performance.

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OK
Total Solution System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

We often use the Citrix ADC and F5 BIG-IP LTM together, because they have similar features. But, normally, we use Citrix solutions because we are Citrix providers in Bangkok, so we're not usually working with F5. However, there are some projects where we deploy F5 alongside Citrix or substitute it for the Citrix solution. 

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KO
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am not the F5 administrator so I don't use all of the features. I primarily perform daily operations such as checking statistics and deploying new virtual servers.

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SS
Sr. Advisor at CVS Health

We are primarily using it for load balancing, and with BIG-IQ managing Layer 7 security policies.

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it_user858369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Vice President at Nagarro

We have around 12 data centers. On average, in every data center, we have 14 to 15 F5 load balancers. We manage everything from a central location, then we deploy policy for use, giving us a place for our control managers.

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KR
Manager | Engineering | Cloud Managed Services at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using the solution for our internal and client purposes. We are a cloud service provider.

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MufeedSiaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Presales Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I use BIG-IP LTM for load balancing and WAF.

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Hilman Gunawan - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at PT Nusantara Compnet Integrator

Currently, we use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager as our traffic management solution. As a consultant, it is project-based with my clients rather than hands-on. Our clients use the solution to load balance their current application server in the DMZ and also in the data center.

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AhmedIsmael - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & Telecom Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using it for web application firewall and load balancing features. We have its latest version.

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EZ
Network Presales Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We use F5 BIG-IP with LTM burst, SM burst, and ETM burst. We use it in our cloud service and all our service centers. We even offer F5 BIG-IP to our partners.

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FM
Works at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

F5 has performed marvelously. It certainly holds in value and holds its name.

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JW
Chief Security Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We use it for brokering services.

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GS
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We mainly use the following F5 modules 

ISP environments:

  • CGNAT
  • DNS firewall
  • Load balancer
  • WAF to be sold as a service to their clients

Enterprise environments:

  • Web application firewall
  • Load balancer
  • Application policy manager
  • Fraud protection (Web and mobile)
  • DDoS (on-premise, and cloud-based)
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it_user223881 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Primary use case for the product is high availability and load sharing of applications to be serviced. Also, it provides application security by use of the Application Security Manager.

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MahesaPutra - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales at Efficient IT Systems Ltd

Our use case for this product is a web function firewall and network firewall that we can use on one platform. 

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MO
Senior Network and Security Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

BIG-IP has multiple uses, including VPN, application firewall, and load balancing.

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Md. Robiul Awoul - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy manager at Oculin Tech

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for the web application firewall and a load balancing system. We are using it in a government project.

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SM
Specialist in Communication and Network Security at a security firm with 11-50 employees

All of our web servers are load-balanced by F5.

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UP
Network Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are using this solution for the web application firewall and load balancing.

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PK
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are using it for load balancing and security.

When someone requests data through the load balancer, we pull the certificate name out to identify who that person is. This is one of the things that F5 does. We haven't able to replicate this so far with the Amazon products. That is why we are going to F5.

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it_user521838 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect/Application Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My team uses F5 for two main purposes. The first purpose is load balancing. F5 is very good at load balancing. It allows you to set up monitors so it can easily detect if the systems' load balancing is actually up. In addition, we use F5 for intrusion detection on some externally facing pieces of the applications that I support.

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LF
Security Governance at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using it primarily for load balancing. We also make great use of SSL interception (offloading and onloading), packet inspection, rewriting, and DNS wide IP.

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RM
Product Manager at MCS

There are many use cases. It is mainly used for local traffic management. It can also be used as an advanced firewall for an application or as a VPN policy manager.

We have cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployments.

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PK
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using this solution as a load balancer and reverse proxy.

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it_user1356177 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Engineer at a cloud provider with 11-50 employees

We use the whole pallet of the Big-IP products starting with the Application Security Management, the web application firewall for the F5. We use it for the protection of files at sites and we also use the load balancer. I also have experience with the airlock and we're now researching the possibility of exchanging our Big-IP system with something else. We're hoping to find a solution that's better for the cloud but which can be a hybrid. We have a partnership with several vendors and I work as an IT security engineer.

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it_user744186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There is more than one use case. The most important is the Local Traffic Manager (LTM). We are using it to load balance our web applications, SSL decryption and application adjusting, along with some TCP features. We are also load balancing traffic between appropriate back-ends for risk. 

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SR
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mostly I support my clients in relation to the product.

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MK
Channel Development Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are in the security business, basically working in two segments; the first is in the financial sector, with the largest banks in the country, and second, we work with some government organizations and corporate businesses. Only B2B for now, not much retail. We have a few projects in insurance companies. The solution is deployed on-premise in our office and we basically use it for demo and testing purposes. We deploy for our customers both on-premise and on cloud. We are a distribution channel, like a reseller. I'm a channel development manager.

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TA
Senior solution architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Our primary use case for this solution is as an alternative for ADT. We work with standard enterprise customers because this product is not affordable for the SME, it's not a cheap solution. We are partners with F5 and I'm a pre-sales and technical executive. 

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JC
Associate Systems Engineer at Frontline Education

We use it as a load balancer.

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AhmedYoussef1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at Westcon-Comstor

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients.

Some of our clients use it as a load balancer. It can also be used as a web application firewall to protect your web-based applications from attacks.

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Mahmoud-Yassin - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure and Security Operations at United Arab Bank

We mainly use this solution for application delivery and application security - the product is used on a daily basis. We are partners of F5 and I'm the head of IT infrastructure. 

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CS
Associate CSA at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using it for internal traffic management and traffic load balancing. Its version is up to date.

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it_user1065222 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Manager - IT Operations at Collabera

Our primary use case is for ADC (Application Delivery Controller) and SSL VPN prospectively worked for the PoC.

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GV
Architect - Cloud Serviced at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

This product has helped us build robust solutions for what my company does.

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KN
Service Delivery Engineer - Network Security Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are a reseller of F5, but we haven't had many projects that we've deployed with F5. In terms of use cases, it is used when clients have web servers, and they are hosting on their own infrastructure. When they have web applications that are publicly visible, they use F5 to balance that incoming traffic for their web servers.

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NH
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are a solution provider and we work with a lot of products from F5.

In our internal network, we use F5 BIG-IP. We also have a few implementations with this product, including some that are integrated with other solutions such as IBM Guardium. 

One of the great use cases is capturing an application user through F5 and then pushing it to Guardium. This is very useful for our customers because they can then connect to the database with a real application user, which is something that is very hard to achieve through other vendors.

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RG
Technical Product Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We’re a systems integration company. We propose this solution mostly to our banking customers and large enterprise clients, so that they can load-balance their core banking applications and their main applications.

It also provides proxying, the client cannot directly access the server. BIG-IP is a proxy between the user and the server, so the client cannot make connections directly to servers. They land on F5 BIG-IP and then F5 creates connections on servers on behalf of clients.

We use the solution for smarter, safer, and reliable connectivity.

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TB
Solutions Architect - Telecom & Network Infrastructure at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

We use the solution as a proxy to our websites, load balancing all our servers as clients come onto our website and use our services. Our website provides around 15 different services. We are customers of F5 and I'm a solutions architect for telecom and network infrastructure.

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it_user591900 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We use it as an LTM and as a reverse proxy to publish web services.

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JC
Works at FiSC

GTM and LTM are the primary uses of the solution. Our company has two active data centers and a data center that is being activated. F5 BIG-IP helps us a lot. 

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MM
Lead Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I am an integrator. I implement solutions for our customers.

It's straightforward deployment application delivery control. 

Our customers have a lot of services that are public, in their internal network and external public network.

They use F5 BIG-IP to publish these services in a secure manner.

They use it for publish billing system services, and some uses for their internal services, such as the DNS active directory.

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SG
Director Technology Solutions with 11-50 employees

The primary use cases are application load balancing and as a web application firewall.

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YU
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for all the modules for DNS applications. It is a core product for us.

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SS
Site Reliability Engineer at Apple

We use it for load balancing and routing.

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DK
Head Of Technology at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our company is based in different geographical locations and we need to create SD-WANs with tight security while allowing remote access to our resources. To manage that and to manage the whole network, we use BIG-IP.

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JC
Director Public Sector at Smart Tronix Inc

We use it for a number of solutions that we build, mostly for identity and access management control.

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JK
ACT Solutions Architect at a venture capital & private equity firm with 51-200 employees

Implementing load balancing services inside managed hosting services based on VMware solutions. The solution is presented as IaaS. F5 BIG-IP VE will be implemented in cooperation with the Cisco ACI solution.

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it_user848262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use it to deliver services on the cloud.

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it_user874860 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Manager at SIG Information Technology GmbH

Publishing of many applications through the F5 reverse proxy to the Internet.

We are also using the F5 as an IdP server.

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it_user799992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case is the common use case for everyone. It has performed well.

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Hilman Gunawan - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at PT Nusantara Compnet Integrator

The solution is mostly used for the LTM load balancer. Recently more of our customers are using it for the web application firewall. Some of my other customers are using the GTM model also. 

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AF
Technical Team Leader at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We use it for local traffic management and for the application firewall. We are trying to deploy virtual appliances in AWS. 

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SB
Senior IT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

My primary use cases of this solution are as a big IP solution, a WAF solution, EPM, and reverse proxy.

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SN
Developer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
  • Load balancing
  • Certificate management
  • Pooling of services
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NA
Thermicien with 51-200 employees

In Vietnam, F5 provides better services.

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JM
Technology Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use the solution to offer load balancing to companies and especially for state and government company.

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it_user860436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Ingeniero at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use F5 for the load balancing of our equipment. We use it for DDoS functionalities in our security solution. 

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it_user750990 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Primary use case is as our main protection. You can use it for brute force and other kinds of cross-site attacks.

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Buyer's Guide
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.