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Akamai Ion vs F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Akamai Ion
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
15th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Man...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
118
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Akamai Ion is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is 15.0%, down from 16.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

Neha Shakyawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 22, 2024
Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility
The solution helps us optimize the content delivery network. It's one of the oldest companies. It improves the overall user experience. It has the biggest CDN We ensure that all our production domains are rooted in Akamai to improve the customer experience by shortening the lag time. We ensure…
Richard Polyak - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 21, 2022
Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community
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…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"The most valuable feature is bot management."
"It has made it a single entry point for all users, verging across all the VPCs. It is more of an SSO solution versus multitier user loggin."
"It is a fast and available solution."
"If I were to choose one key feature in particular, perhaps it would be the iRule feature. It’s a really versatile tool."
"It is a stable product from a stable company. Recently, they have been more focused on security as well."
"The most valuable features of the solution are in the area of DDoS and WAF."
"NetFlow balancing and traffic balancing are good features."
"F5 has many capabilities for load balancing and web application firewall features."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
 

Cons

"The product must provide more flexibility."
"Log management should display data for more than two months."
"The one gap I saw was that pure LBN integration is a little tricky. The insertion of F5 in LBN is a little tricky. They need to work on something, on products by which they can insert F5 in any sort of cloud environment."
"Fixing bugs."
"A more hybrid approach would be beneficial for users."
"I think the logging could be improved."
"The initial setup can be complex - it's quite flexible in terms of configuration, but the person configuring it needs to understand the application side, the network side, and the server."
"Technical support could be faster. It's something I'd like to see them work on in the future."
"Security and Reporting."
"We would like to have integration into encryption and PKI integration with SafeNet. That is probably the key component in using External PKIs, letting people bring their PKIs with them."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is expensive."
"The licensing pricing seems relatively easy enough to get your head around. I would advise anyone to ensure that you have a conversation with an F5 consultant before purchasing, as you would with most products."
"Compared to using open-source products, the prices are not cheap."
"It is quite expensive as a product. Because it is very stable, it is also expensive."
"Though functionality is high, its cost can be considered slightly higher than its competitors​."
"It is the best solution, but that comes with an increased price."
"F5 isn’t cheap but is worth the price."
"The licensing model of F5 BIG-IP LTM is highly complex. The operation cost of the solution is high. The overall cost is high."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was good. We chose to go through the AWS Marketplace because everything that we needed was a soft appliance. We needed something to work in Amazon, and this product was available there."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Akamai Ion?
Akamai is easy to use and very effective.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Akamai Ion?
The billing cycle is monthly, however, payment is done yearly. While expensive, it provides value for the services offered.
What needs improvement with Akamai Ion?
Log management should display data for more than two months. The traffic report needs to be more flexible. The response time of technical support should be improved.
What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IP?
Price is an area of the tool where improvements are required. I want to see CDN capabilities in the product.
 

Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

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