We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) 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 have found the consistency of the application always being the way it is supposed to be as its most valuable feature."
"This is a solution that does what it's supposed to do at the price point."
"The solution is easy to install. It's a straightforward process."
"We plan to create packages of services from which it will be possible to build comprehensive tailor-made solutions."
"Routing and load balancing are its most valuable features."
"F5 has many capabilities for load balancing and web application firewall features."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"ASM for WAF."
"The three most valuable features that I noticed are the geo-localization of the user, the IP reputation, and the compartmental analysis."
"The SharePoint SSO part has some room for improvement."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"Currently, the product offers everything we need. I can't recall any features that may be lacking."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will be a challenge for us."
"Based on my experience using F5 and by only taking into consideration the last seven years, I have found that the reporting mechanism is bad."
"Technical support could be faster. It's something I'd like to see them work on in the future."
"Security and Reporting."
"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 area that should be improved is licensing."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) is ranked 32nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) 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 R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) writes "Geo-localization and IP reputation help to keep our clients secure and more available". 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 R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll) is most compared with AWS WAF and Akamai App and API Protector.
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