F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) vs. Huawei Cloud NAT Gateway

I think that the platform is well suited to many Remote Access VPN solutions, but I also think there is a lot of room for improvement on the backend. If you are hoping to deploy your APM solution across many different datacenters or colos, it may not be the best choice for the final solution.

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In security point of view , it is a best solution in our organization. because different department need different type of security levels. NAT gateways expose IP addresses to specific CIDR blocks for high security levels, this process achieved by mapping IP addresses of private to specific IP addresses. it is great tool for this purpose.

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• SAML 2.0 identity federation support.
• Integrates with third-party SSO solutions.
• Bridging modern authentication and authorization (SAML, OAuth/OIDC) and classic authentication and authorization methods.
• Policy routing

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• For ease Network Planning
• It has Strong Security
• Zero conflict of IPs

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• CCU Licenses are limited by device and are not shared between APM devices
• User sessions are not stored globally, so persistence can be an issue with users all over the world
• Configuration can get complicated when split up between multiple sites

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• It is costly that charge on hour and each giga byte
• Implementation is typical, it needs vendor
• Big organization needs complex implementation

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It is open platform so support is not good and than F5 and features visibility as not good as F5. F5 Set up and easy to use to admin console. Also have more feature visibility for load balancing, web server accelerator, application server ddos protection and WAF. F5 more efficient to handle concurrent request.

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There are different type of gateway available in the market but we choice Huawei NAT gateway because of its reliability, flexibility and its security. Other gateways have a IP conflict issues, but Huawei NAT Gateway is best which have zero IP conflicts. and it reduce the overload of work on cloud also

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• This is really a tough question and I believe F5 should look into the price tags of these products which would help the SMB segments to use this product.
• As for our industry and the kind of business the ROI is a bit high.

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• It drives to revenue growth
• It provides better services
• Transformation of network

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