We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Ivanti Virtual 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)."The most valuable feature is being able to manipulate the iRules, so you can send traffic to different avenues."
"I have Big-IP change and control manager, which give me the roll back option. Therefore, I can view the last things which happened on the device."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is good."
"I have found F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to be stable."
"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."
"F5's attack signatures and automation are the most valuable features. The disaster recovery capabilities are also excellent. You don't need to do anything. It has automatic failover from production."
"It offers features Kemp doesn't provide. For example, there are predefined templates for handling Office 365. You can download them for automatic configuration."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"I would like to see F-5 implement a regular routing like in other Linux-based devices. When we try and integrate in some complex networks, we have to use some additional routing scenarios from a Layer 3 perspective, then we have some problems. It would be great if this were fixed somehow."
"The user interface of F5 BIG-IP LTM is old and could improve."
"The ASM administration is quite complex. The topic itself is pretty complex, so it is not easy to provide a nice, clean interface. There are a lot of references and dependencies in-between the different subareas."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The management interface is unclear, complex, and not concise. I would like a better user interface."
"If they made it easier for engineers to get F5 training then it would be better."
"They need to improve the interface and some of the functionalities."
"BIG-IP LTM's sandboxing integration could be improved."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 117 reviews while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall writes "Good feature set and is simple to deploy ". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, NGINX Plus and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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