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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    A10 Thunder ADC

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AA10 Networks offers their application delivery controller, Thunder ADC.N/A

    F5 BIG-IP DNS

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 BIG-IP DNS (formerly BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager) secures DNS infrastructure.N/A
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    A10 Thunder ADCF5 BIG-IP DNS
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    A10 Thunder ADCF5 BIG-IP DNS
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Best Alternatives
    A10 Thunder ADCF5 BIG-IP DNS
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Application Gateway
    Score8.8 out of 10
    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
    F5 BIG-IP
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    User Ratings
    A10 Thunder ADCF5 BIG-IP DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.5
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    A10 Thunder ADCF5 BIG-IP DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    A10 Networks
    I recommend it but would like to mention that the buyer should analyze their needs very well and perform exhaustive service tests prior to purchase.
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    F5
    Less appropriate: - Not best bet for startup’s as their budget is always tight - Not good for those companies where the engineers are not highly skilled otherwise the use Irules and security policies will not be utilised in optimal manner as it requires more cpu resources to work especially irules - For companies fully on cloud doesn’t best fit as I already highlighted cloud require more improvements when it comes to seamless performance Best Suited -Large enterprise companies where budget is not an issue - Companies whose traffic Rate Per Second is very high as it can handle huge RPS without latency - Companies whose business is surely depends on their availability
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    Pros
    A10 Networks
    • Load balancing
    • Scripting AFLEX
    • DDOS mitigation
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    F5
    • I love this product, especially DoH because it's not able to do the same functionality in NextGen firewalls on our edge location because of the nature that integrated with the F5 BIG-IP, the V we provide for our external clients and we love it the most because it's, it's right in the same box, we use it and then we get the benefits out of the same big IP boxes, same VE boxes. And I think that's the only aspect we liked the most.
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    Cons
    A10 Networks
    • Functionalities and features do not match our needs.
    • Other vendors offer very similar characteristics for lower prices.
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    F5
    • I'd like to see better reporting capabilities on the decision-making process for DNS resolutions. Currently there are plenty of log messages for that, but I'd like to see tighter integration into the GUI.
    • It could be an improvement to better discriminate features intended for AA vs LDNS functionality within the GUI.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    A10 Networks
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    F5
    We use this heavily and it is one of the best products out there for this type of use case. We already have LTMs and to leverage GTM on top of that is just a piece of cake. Everything is so well integrated its amazing
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    Usability
    A10 Networks
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    F5
    Most important usability of F5 BIG-IP DNS is it’s stability which other vendors lack -As mentioned earlier as well, it’s scalability is humongous as it can honour millions of request per second without latency - irules feature makes it top and worthy to fight with top contenders like cloudflare and Cisco - Moreover it’s stable even when the Rate Per second is high and at the same time, DDos occurs - Interface is user friendly for simple tasks but requires more manual work - TAC should provide more assistance when it comes to normal support as well but they do offer professional support license for tasks which other vendor assist on normal license as well
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    Support Rating
    A10 Networks
    Support said the devices will work in our environment but when we had the device working we realized that it was not possible to do what we wanted, for this reason, our experience was not entirely good and we did not like the way they approached us for the sale of the device.
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    F5
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    A10 Networks
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    F5
    As I mentioned, the GSLB capability, being able to do intelligent DNS by having access to monitor specific endpoints associated to my current BIG-IP infrastructure, I believe that brings a huge value, then combine fast responses and security.
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    Return on Investment
    A10 Networks
    • A10 Thunder ADC had a negative impact on the company, due to the fact that the client had to monitor a large number of sites, which could not be achieved with this device.
    • This led to looking for another alternative.
    • It is more beneficial for companies that do not need to monitor a large number of websites as the security and stability provided by the device are excellent.
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    F5
    • Well, yes, I would say a big impact for ours. We were able to have more visibilities and trying to allow those traffic that we weren't able to see what is behind the scene and then reduce a lot of attackers. And then it led us to actually allow our clients freely using the DOT or DOH.
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