F5 BIG-IP vs. FatPipe MPVPN

I have configured Citrix, Kemp, and A10 load balancers professionally and the ease of use of F5 BIG-IP is far and away the easiest to use and most robust product out there for application delivery. The customization available with profiles and iRules make it a critical part of our data center infrastructure.

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If you need multiple ISPs for wan aggregation or site to site failover. This box can tolerate failures of ISPs and sites with less than 1-3 seconds of outage time.

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• Application awareness and Certificate front loading
• It's really good at explaining what things are doing on the help tab and its so versitile
• We use the LTM and GTM and GTM is extremely easy to use and works great for global load balancing across our vast enterprise

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• Load balancing of ISPs
• Site to site failover
• SmartDNS

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• Logs - from time to time we have issues and having more specific logs regarding traffic failures would help.
• Virtual server support for multiple nodes with different operating systems in a single pool. We tend to have issues with servers being two different versions of windows using the same VIP and traffic stops. Usually have to recreate the VIP, and pool and separate the nodes in separate pools by OS versions.

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• Could use a training manual.

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So far experience with F5 BIG-IP has been good, but we are only 6 months into the deployment and will depend on how things run over time.

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I am a relatively new Networking personell and I found the F5 BIG-IP's we use for Load Balancing to be easy to understand and was able to quickly become more fluent in it. I have been in the position less than a year and have found myself able to quickly become the go to person for Load Balancing.

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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.

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implementation is fine

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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 features with F5 that did remediate the issue, like using the one connect profiles, but that did cause some other problems identifying traffic and we had to make some eye roll changes to use the exported four headers.

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Fatpipe invented SD-WAN over 25 years ago and has been leading the way. Other companies I think have just ridden their coattails.

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• F5 BIG-IP has a highly positive impact on the customers. The main impact is on the security of the web applications.
• F5 BIG-IP provides an easy and safe way to connect employees to assets and applications that reside in an on-premises environment.

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• We have lost ISPs without any business disconnections.
• Business continuity at its best.

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