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Array APV Series Load Balancing & App Delivery vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Array APV Series Load Balancing & App Delivery
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Array APV Series, from global company Array Networks headquartered near San Francisco, is an application delivery controller. Array load balancing and application delivery provides the availability, scalability, performance, security, and control essential to keeping applications running in their power band. Deployed in front of web and application servers, the APV distributes traffic, scales server pools, maintains persistence, and accelerates applications. Load balancers are an essential data…N/A
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Score 9.1 out of 10
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F5 states that the "brain" of the BIG-IP platform, Local Traffic Manager (LTM) intelligently manages network traffic so applications are always fast, available, and secure.N/A
Pricing
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
Array APV Series Load Balancing & App DeliveryF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Likelihood to Recommend
Array Networks
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F5
There was a need to have the DR environment to be available actively but not to send the traffic unless the production is down The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) priority feature helped achieving it. It was well suited in handling the HTTP headers using polices and iRules. It was less appropriate from the application security perspective in the current version. But after attending the AppWorld 2024, I see a lot of ways to protect the network and the application with several features.
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Pros
Array Networks
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F5
  • Does web traffic management very well.
  • To allow API's to work with our in house services
  • To make intelligent load balancing decisions.
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Cons
Array Networks
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F5
  • Time investment in creating Virtual Servers across many LTMs
  • Ability to change object names after creation
  • Support ability to troublshoot iRUles
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Chris Woods
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Alternatives Considered
Array Networks
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F5
As far as I know, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) from F5 is the best and the number of features is unmatched compared to its competitors. The first-time setup is also quick and easy and the product behaves as a full proxy which is rarely seen. The support is good and also the help articles are numerous.
Mohammed Younus Siddiqui | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mohammed Younus Siddiqui
Network Security Engineer
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Return on Investment
Array Networks
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F5
  • Negative impact in that it makes it very easy for applications to be spun up but cleanup of old/ unused deployments do not happen causing resources to be consumed unnecessarily
  • When used in a multiblade viprion guest, issues with backplane and blade replication causing impact
  • Ability to deploy multiple instances helped with network segmentation
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