We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Access solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The clients of the customers have a facility to access the enterprise network."
"I like the fact that Remote Access allows the administrator to control and manage things. It makes things smoother, and it has been an excellent experience."
"The biggest advantage of Check Point Remote Access VPN is that we already use the Check Point firewall. We only needed to enable the feature and do the configuration in order to enable the VPN feature. We didn't need to buy or manage new hardware."
"The solution is easy for administrators because you can check logs and write rules on the same page."
"This platform has developed a reliable communication infrastructure that employees can use to communicate with remote workers."
"The management of the solution is very simple. It allows for a single view of all the endpoints."
"The security of the solution is a good feature, the stability is a valuable feature, and the customization is also a nice feature."
"We can integrate remote access to our branches through Check Point services."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The stability is excellent."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure."
"Currently, it's distributing the load perfectly, as per my understanding of our requirements."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"BIG-IP LTM's most valuable feature is that it allows you to seamlessly add more servers without impacting your application's configuration."
"It provides first-tier firewalling, for you application. And it provides server load-balancing, it provides optimization, and it provides a proxy feature, where your users cannot directly access your server. It acts as a fully proxy architecture. It has client-side and server-side connections, both, and they're separate."
"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."
"Without a doubt and with the new trends in technology, Check Point should already have a blade with a 2MFA solution and not through some other vendor."
"The cost of maintenance is high compared to most products in the market."
"The non-standard setup is quite complex as you have to do changes via GUI and CLI."
"A characteristic to improve is the communication service under the SMTP scheme."
"The interface itself needs improvement. When you need to create something, you have to go through a lot of steps. It needs to be simplified."
"We have noted some stability issues."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN's current configuration has some limitations and issues. One major drawback is the inability to configure multiple gateways from the same management server for VPN access."
"You have no ability to reserve a total number of licenses. The VPN user licenses are assigned per gateway, and if you enable MEP function is not so easy to size the gateway licenses."
"F5 could improve the rule-setting capabilities in the GUI, and they need to simplify web management. For example, the menus in the Citrix GUI are easier to navigate, with a clean structure and layout."
"The solution's hardware quality needs improvement."
"The solution's initial setup process was quite complex. I"
"It would possibly help to get more training, even better in local languages."
"The logging features are too limited and do not give us a solid understanding of what's happening."
"While the licensing is good through the AWS Marketplace, it is more expensive than what you could buy yourself."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will be a challenge for us."
"A lot of functions that are attributed to iRules can actually be simple profile changes. iRules do have a certain performance impact. Therefore, instead of writing simple iRules, they can create certain profiles for classes that will perform the same function."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 5th in Remote Access with 62 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient, Check Point Harmony Mobile and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, whereas 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. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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