F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs Wallarm NG WAF comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Man...
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
117
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (1st)
Wallarm NG WAF
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (34th), API Security (8th)
 

Featured Reviews

KV
Jun 28, 2022
Industry leader; no one comes close in terms of specs
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is scalable. That's one of the reasons I always went for it. Some of the clients I have worked with have been Fortune 100 companies with thousands and thousands of servers they needed front-ended. Some of these sites had multiple thousands of web instances that needed to be load balanced. We were also doing both local and global load balancing. We'd use a global load balancer that would point to local load balancing that would port it out within a specific data center. These clients had millions of end users. I believe that nearly all of those organizations ended up increasing their load balancing platform environment.
it_user662952 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 11, 2017
Active threat detection and adaptive rules are the most valuable for us.
I would say that the active threat detection feature and adaptive rules are the most valuable for us. With active threat detection, we are no longer over-swamped with tons of useless events. As all the payloads from malicious requests are analysed with a cloud scanner, we don’t need to do this…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"The support from F5 BIG-IP LTM is good."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Along with load balancing, we perform a lot of packet inspections, URL rewriting, and SSL interceptions via iRule."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"The product is very stable. We put a decent amount of stress on it given our load."
"We like the capability to combine the content switching with the intrusion prevention and adding the security roles, so we can expose certain sub-pieces outside without exposing everything."
"It offers features Kemp doesn't provide. For example, there are predefined templates for handling Office 365. You can download them for automatic configuration."
"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."
 

Cons

"There are some aspects of F5 BIG-IP that could be improved, the main one being virtual machine support. We have seen that even with the virtual editions, there are some things that we would like to do that are currently not possible with virtual machines."
"A more hybrid approach would be beneficial for users."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"I would like F5 to incorporate the ability to create your own custom roles and customised permissions within the product set. I have seen many customers wanting to give a certain level of access for the purposes of out-of-hours servicing to out-of-hours staff or teams that fulfill an operations type role."
"The synchronization does works fairly well. However, if I were to make changes, I would make it easier to start the sync process."
"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."
"BIG-IP LTM's sandboxing integration could be improved."
"The biggest problem for us was the stability and speed using the first version of Wallarm. Now, it is fine."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is the best solution, but that comes with an increased price."
"It is a little pricey. I wish the pricing was cheaper, but I wish the pricing was cheaper for everything."
"It was probably a one-time purchase and then you have maintenance, but I don't have the details on that. We bought what they called the Best bundle at the time, which pretty much included all of the modules. There was probably no additional cost afterward."
"I am a fan of using AWS natively. It is much cheaper."
"It is quite expensive as a product. Because it is very stable, it is also expensive."
"It is cheaper than the average on the market."
"I would recommend that the cost be lowered."
"Check other vendors like Cisco, Citrix or A10 Networks. There are plenty in the market with which you can achieve same thing."
"​Pricing must be cheaper than the competition and the licensing must be good.​"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about F5 BIG-IP?
The support from F5 BIG-IP LTM is good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 BIG-IP?
There are a few licensing options available for F5 BIG-IP LTM. You can have a perpetual license which is a lifetime license. You then only need to renew the support, if you choose to open a ticket ...
What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IP?
The pricing must be more flexible. We get billed for firewalls based on the usage. It will be helpful if the solution provides such flexibility.
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Also Known As

F5 BIG-IP, BIG-IP LTM, F5 ASM, Viprion, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition , Crescendo Networks Application Delivery Controller, BIG IP
Wallarm NG-WAF
 

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Riken, TransUnion, Tepco Systems Administration, Daejeon University, G&T Bank, Danamon, CyberAgent Inc.
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