F5 BIG-IP

F5 BIG-IP

198 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BIG-IP	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	F5 BIG-IP software from Seattle-based F5 Networks is a load balancing and application protection solution suite available on cloud or via virtual editions, on a subscription or perpetual licensing basis. The BIG-IP suite of products supports a wide range of security and application performance needs. The suite includes BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) traffic management and optimization, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) identity and password protection, BIG-IP Application…	N/A

Pricing

F5 BIG-IP

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Pricing Offerings
BIG-IP
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	F5 BIG-IP
Considered Both Products	BIG-IP Verified User Employee Chose F5 BIG-IP NGINX is known for its high performance and scalability, particularly in serving static content and handling large volumes of concurrent connections. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose F5 BIG-IP Number of issues or errors are very small, F5 BIG-IP change OS/Firmware architecture to microservice run on the container to easy to maintain and upgrade. Good support from engineer teams. Security functions upgrade and F5 BIG-IP is one important component in F5 Platform … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose F5 BIG-IP Give proof to solve problem when the organisation big hit access from users to our data center. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP Ease of used. Not that complex. Better support by the principle. A better product than the other load balancer brands Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose F5 BIG-IP Has easy menu to read for configure & implementation easy to understand. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 BIG-IP is the gold standard in load balancing and traffic prioritization. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP Stable product less problem Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP Citrus NetScalers. That's another competitor. We use their products too. I just like the UI better on the BIG-IP in my personal opinion. It's just easier to work with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP So the cloud versions, and admittedly we did not do the Imperva on-prem solution. We only went with cloud. There's a lot of idiosyncrasies, like you can't use real IP addresses, you must snap. And that caused us problems with DNS and DNS routing. So we had to turn on some … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 BIG-IP is my first F5 product that I have stared to work, and it brings me more experience doing a lot of migration upgrades from old code version to new code. The way F5 has all configuration help us to develop scrips to improve our process. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose F5 BIG-IP The company was already utilizing F5 BIG-IP when I started. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP I used NGINX and Cloudflare CDN and now that F5 owns NGINX it’s been an easy switch. Cloudflare has a very intuitive platform that makes it easy to get up and running. Most of my experience is with F5 and I’m happy to say it’s made my experience streamlined enough that I … Incentivized Helpful? SS Steve Sander Principal engineer ii Chose F5 BIG-IP We have multiple vendors in our environment. As we have a number of F5 devices already deployed keeping them fed and happy is a task. We continue with F5 as the data plane is solid and management tools are consistent with automation objectives. Incentivized Helpful? AC Andrea Curry Director, Systems and Tools Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 interface is better and more user friendly and the technology is just better. F5 WAF is better and easier to integrate than Imperva WAF which I have seen introduce latency. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose F5 BIG-IP I prefer the F5 over all of the other products. I have had more success with F5 than another of the above listed products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 BIG-IP Vs Netscaler Traffic Manager by Citrix I would say there is no comparison. Netscaler was difficult to use and no one easily understood the configurations. It led to many times where our engineers would need to reverse engineer the configuration before they could … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose F5 BIG-IP XC is great but the price was well beyond what we could do. Our security team really wanted to utilize this and loved what they saw until the quote. It's a great product but I do feel the UI could use some intuitive work. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 BIG-IP's iRules are way superior and robust Incentivized Helpful? SN sravan nekkanti network reliability software engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 BIG-IP is a brilliantly designed and well working piece Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP zscaler has a tendency to say they are competitive with F5 1 to 1 but when you go through the cost. it immediately stands out that everything is and additional cost per add-on compared to the F5 best backage. Incentivized Helpful? IA Idan Asherov Eng. Manager dept Chose F5 BIG-IP They agility of the product and the simplicity is great compare to other solutionsv Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP All of the products listed are used in tangence with F5 BIG-IP. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Load balancing Pro Simple user Pro Corporate network
Top Cons	Minus Power supply Minus Somewhat confusing Minus Product line

Features

F5 BIG-IP

Virtual Private Network

Comparison of Virtual Private Network features of Product A and Product B
	F5 BIG-IP 7.1 10 Ratings 15% below category average
AES 256-bit Encryption	7.77 Ratings
Kill Switch	6.44 Ratings
Multi-Platform Support	6.55 Ratings
Split Tunneling	6.84 Ratings
IP Address Masking	7.76 Ratings
No-Logs Policy	7.35 Ratings
Multiple Server Locations	7.55 Ratings
Automatic Wi-Fi Protection	5.83 Ratings
Simultaneous Connections	7.68 Ratings
Customer Support Services	8.08 Ratings

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User Ratings
	F5 BIG-IP
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (116 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.6 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	6.3 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	F5 BIG-IP
Likelihood to Recommend	F5 I really do think it's well suited for any placement on the edge, especially with the WAF portion. APM is a whole different module unto itself that allows for VPN Connect connectivity, web top access. So it really is for these modules anyway, an edge appliance for us and not really usable in the interior of the network. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	F5 Easy connection: you can connect to your corporate network with two clicks. IP restriction: F5 has a list of possible insecure IP numbers, if someone tries to connect using one of these numbers, F5 BIG-IP won't connect. Always on feature: Very handy feature, if you install always on, you won't need to click connect. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	F5 I think the policy configuration that had some improvements on the ASM word things, improvements may be on the signatures that would be good because it's a little bit confusing on the ASL, how they are updated and deployed, and this staging. So that's something that could be. Incentivized MP Marcos Penha Director of Renting Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	F5 Only way to to this type of tasks Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	F5 Great customization and easy to use help reference menus Incentivized Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP Senior Network Security Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	F5 On the occasions when we've had to engage f5 support, they have been great. They have always resolved our issues quickly and been easy to work with and professional. The reason I give them a 10 out of 10, however, is because when we've had issues that have crossed over between the f5 BIG-IP, our Cisco switches, and our Microsoft IIS server the f5 support representatives have been extremely knowledgeable about every product and device involved and have been able to troubleshoot end-to-end without having to engage other vendors. Incentivized PL Paul Luchini Network Engineer Read full review
Implementation Rating	F5 implementation is fine Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	F5 F5 BIG-IP is my first F5 product that I have stared to work, and it brings me more experience doing a lot of migration upgrades from old code version to new code. The way F5 has all configuration help us to develop scrips to improve our process. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	F5 Having a load balancer of F5 helps to address large traffic limit on organisation's application This means that organisation gets a lot of revenue due to the usage of their application Hence provide a very positive impact onthe inverment or ROl of the organisation Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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