F5 BIG-IP

F5 BIG-IP

F5 BIG-IP

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
F5 BIG-IP	Score 9.2 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.	N/A

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F5 BIG-IP

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Community Pulse
	F5 BIG-IP
Considered Both Products	F5 BIG-IP GO Greg Overley Senior Systems Programmer Chose F5 BIG-IP We tried AVI before it was acquired by VMware, and BIG-IP was far superior at handling traffic quickly and securely. Helpful? JB Jon Bentley Senior software engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 BIG-IP is the premiere Load Balancer in my opinion Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP I think the F5 BIG-IP UI is easier to work with and understand. However, the A10 CLI is a bit more comfortable due to its similarity to other products like Cisco and Arista Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP The F5 BIG-IP interface is so much nicer than the NetScaler, from creating a VIP to applying a certificate the F5 interface is so much nicer. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose F5 BIG-IP When comparing F5 BIG-IP to these products they do not offer half of the things F5 BIG-IP offers and in some situations I could not even get the app to work. With Azure App Gateway we needed to make specifics redirects to work but we never got it to work. With F5 BIG-IP we got … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP it was used in my previous company. the challenge of operation is very overhead as it can't easily identify the blocking rule, but the function is very staple Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose F5 BIG-IP This blows them out the water in every aspect including the ones they do not have. F5 BIG-IP has been my choice since day one it was recommended to my by friends that where involved but did not really start using it until I joined my most recent company and they are thrilled. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 outperformed them all and the level of documentation and support from F5 is the best that I have encountered out of all the areas that we have used as a application delivery platform. The F5 BIG-IP DNS system has been so helpful in load balancing other BIG-IP devices as well … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose F5 BIG-IP We use NGINX for cluster ingress controllers, but F5 BIG-IP has a much better handle on ADC functions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose F5 BIG-IP these products work together Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 BIG-IP's iRules are way superior and robust. the biggest game changer was iRules. F5 also able to modify the responses from our application on different conditions. We have security vulnerability that we need to patch 500+ webservers. F5 came in and using iRules able to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP F5 is an unbelievable upgrade to the netscalers that preceded them. Performance, scalability and security are much better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP In my opinion, F5 BIG-IP wins easily due to how we manage and use the F5 with complex irules Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose F5 BIG-IP AvI , F5 is better to automate with Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	F5 BIG-IP
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (187 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.7 (9 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (59 ratings)
Availability	7.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.4 (10 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.2 (2 ratings)
Configurability	6.0 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	6.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	F5 BIG-IP
Likelihood to Recommend	F5 Application delivery of both simple and advanced applications. It's easy to handle certificate management that do require individual certificates to be installed on each backend server, you can just install the certificate on the F5 BIG-IP and use for multiple backends. Also adding WAF is as simple as adding a generic policy and you will cover 80% of the scenarios. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	F5 It's reliable. We've had very little problems with the technology. Performance is always right on. Metrics are great. They come out of it. We'd like to do more probably with it in the future as we start to grow a lot more. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	F5 Recently we have been deploying F5 web application firewall and we have started the deployment. We have already moved applications out there, but we are not yet to the point wherein I could comment any positive feedback or any negative feedback because we are still going through it, right. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't see any drawbacks or any shortcomings on the F5 product lineup. Incentivized KP Kedar Patkar Lead Network Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	F5 Stability of product and easy way to have account manager contact. F5 support team is also always available to help with major issues. Last year during the major OS upgrade F5 team and F5 leadership always shared clear information and F5 team was dedicated to help us to have it closed in record time Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	F5 It actually satisfies the use cases, but I would like to know what it can do more than just the use cases, which is what I'm looking for, to talk at some point with somebody and figure out what to do next. We probably maybe could be able to do more that we don't know yet. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	F5 I've supported F5 for three different companies. Our F5 support has been very consistent, regardless who the customer is. F5 technicians are very experienced and provide good support, even when issues are more related to knowledge than they are with the ability of the product to do what you need it to do. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
In-Person Training	F5 Practical cases and hands on , many hours of training with tipical cases Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	F5 implementation is fine Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	F5 That's the one thing that really stood out. It was a lot easier to use from an administrator standpoint, so I think that's the one thing that really made our team decide to go with this product versus another competitor. Just ease of use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	F5 The F5 BIG-IP has improved all our load balancing needs, we have over 400 LTM VIPs in our environment this all use to be done with DNS round Robin configurations. we have created unique APM solutions to support our external customer base Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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