F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager LTM and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway compete in application delivery and management. Azure Application Gateway appears to have the upper hand due to its feature-rich capabilities, particularly in security features and ROI.
Features: F5 BIG-IP LTM is noted for advanced traffic management, seamless integration with cloud services, and broad compatibility. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway offers robust security capabilities, ease of scalability, and automated deployment features.
Room for Improvement: F5 BIG-IP LTM could improve flexibility, audit logging, and user control. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway can enhance user control, customization options, and customer service consistency.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: F5 BIG-IP LTM requires specialized skills for deployment, but offers good customer service. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway provides easier deployment through automation, although customer service experiences can be inconsistent.
Pricing and ROI: F5 BIG-IP LTM is valued for its favorable pricing and ROI. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway delivers higher ROI due to its features, despite higher setup costs.
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.
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.
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination IP address and port.
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