F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Reviews

Vendor: F5

4.1 out of 5

118 reviews
83% willing to recommend

2,605 followers

What is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

F5 BIG-IP LTM optimizes the speed and reliability of your apps via both network and application layers. Using real-time protocol and traffic management decisions based on app and server and connection management conditions, and TCP and content offloading, BIG-IP LTM dramatically improves application and infrastructure responsiveness. BIG-IP LTM's architecture includes protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications. BIG-IP LTM tracks the dynamic performance levels of servers and delivers SSL performance and visibility for inbound and outbound traffic, to protect the user experience by encrypting everything from the client to the server.

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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is the #2 ranked solution in top Application Delivery Controllers. PeerSpot users give F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most commonly compared to Cloudflare: F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs Cloudflare. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 67% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 17% of all views.

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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

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Richard Polyak

Sr. Architect at NBC Universal

Our primary use cases for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager are high availability for applications and SSL offload certificates F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager helps reduce our downtime for maintenance purposes. It also offers us ease of use for the deployment of certificates onto a central…

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Mahmoud-Yassin

Head of IT Infrastructure and Security Operations at United Arab Bank

LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service. F5 acquired multiple companies a few years ago, but they still haven't integrated those solutions. For example, F5 acquired Shape Security, which had an excellent solution for detecting bots and automated login attacks, but F5 offers the solution in an inflexible way. It is only available as a cloud-based solution. It isn't zone-based. Some companies are restricted from sending financial data outside the country because of GDPR in Europe or other national regulations. Here in the UAE, we can't send host data out.

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Ritesh-Bakhru

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 F5 Big-IP Local Traffic Manager has better modular features…

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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category stands at 15.0%, down from 16.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The most valuable features of the solution are in the area of DDoS and WAF."
"There were a lot of good features. The most beneficial for maintaining server health included the algorithms for the virtual IP, which segment traffic between servers, authentication profiles, and many other things."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."

Room for Improvement

"I wouldn't recommend the tool to small companies, considering its high price and the infrastructure needs of small businesses."
"In the LTM solution, it would be beneficial to have more algorithms for traffic segmentation or the ability to create user-defined algorithms rather than being restricted to predefined ones."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."

Pricing

"The tool is a bit expensive."
"In my view, the cost is somewhat on the higher side. There are discounts available, but I wouldn't say it's overpriced. It's not cheap either, and the value for money is a bit higher from that perspective."
"The solution is more expensive than one of its competitors."

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Learn more about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

BIG-IP LTM provides enterprise-class Application Delivery Controller (ADC). You get granular layer 7 control, SSL offloading and acceleration capabilities, and advanced scaling technologies that deliver performance and reliability on-demand. The highly optimized TCP/IP stack combines TCP/IP techniques and improvements in the latest RFCs with extensions to minimize the effect of congestion and packet loss and recovery. Independent testing tools and customer experiences show LTM's TCP stack delivers up to a 2x performance gain for users and a 4x increase in bandwidth efficiency.

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) was previously known as F5 BIG-IP, BIG-IP LTM, F5 ASM, Viprion, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition , Crescendo Networks Application Delivery Controller, BIG IP.