F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Reviews

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

One of the best features of the solution is the operating system. Additionally, it is easy to use and has plenty of features.

The configuration is intricate and could be improved. 

For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud.

The price of the solution is sometimes expensive.

I rate F5 BIG-IP an eight out of ten.

• LTM for balancing
• ASM for WAF

I'm a system integrator, not a customer. Usually F5 meets customer expectations well. It's best of breed and an industry leader.

Security and Reporting.

As a pre-sale engineer, I'm not working with the F5 solution but I'm studying F5's features and competitor benchmarking.

When WAF is enabled, you can see a decrease in performance.

Not to date.

Very good.

Citrix NetScaler. F5 supports better features, from load balancing to security and application visibility. NetScaler is better with a VDI solution.

Not applicable.

F5 is more expensive than other solutions, so you have to be sure F5 is the best solution to fit the requirements.

Citrix, RadWare, and LBL.

You need the right skills to deploy it. Complex deployment requires TCL language knowledge.

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

This solution is the best security platform. We have even attached it to another security platform solution for DDoS.

They need to improve the interface and some of the functionalities.

It is very stable. We have not had many problems.

We don't need additional features to grow out the platform.

The occasion in which we needed technical support, we didn't have problems with them, because they always answered our questions without any trouble.

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

It gives us something like a "story" of our status because we can see a lot of bad traffic and, in the logs, if someone is trying to execute something.

Most important is that it stops very common attacks which can be performed by a simple hacker, and up to the advanced level.

We need best-practice information. They have something called DevCentral and a blog. But we want something from F5 itself regarding how to tackle the false-positive configurations. If you go into detail with so many configurations it will find so many false positives from the moment it is enabled that it will quickly impact your applications, and it will not work.

Overall, it's stable. There are cases which are not so much about stability but, rather, about functionality and false positives.

No issues with scalability.

It has many features compared to other products.