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What is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?
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.
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What is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?
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.
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What is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) includes static and dynamic load balancing to eliminate single points of failure. Application proxies give users protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications. BIG-IP LTM also tracks the dynamic performance levels of servers in a group, ensuring that applications are not just always on, but also are easier to scale and manage. BIG-IP LTM delivers SSL performance and visibility for inbound and outbound traffic, to protect the user experience by encrypting everything from the client to the server.
BIG-IP LTM aims to improve page load times and the user experience with HTTP/2, intelligent caching, extensive connection optimization and management, and compression. It also makes real-time protocol and traffic-management decisions based on application and server conditions, enables rules customization and programmability, and TCP and content offloading.
With BIG-IP LTM users can monitor how applications are performing for real users based on application response times, network conditions, and user context. F5 Analytics captures application-specific statistics, such as URL, throughput, and server latency, reported at different levels of the service. BIG-IP LTM is designed to make it simple to integrate with existing tools using industry standards such as sFlow, SNMP, and syslog.
With BIG-IP LTM users can monitor how applications are performing for real users based on application response times, network conditions, and user context. F5 Analytics captures application-specific statistics, such as URL, throughput, and server latency, reported at different levels of the service. BIG-IP LTM is designed to make it simple to integrate with existing tools using industry standards such as sFlow, SNMP, and syslog.
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Features
- Supported: SSL Acceleration - Offloads SSL encryption from infrastructure and frees up resources to boost application performance.
- Supported: Full proxy provides inspection, management, and analytics of traffic entering and existing in the network.
- Supported: Automate layer 4-7 application services with F5's declaritive REST APIs.
- Supported: iRules scripting language—F5’s event driven traffic scripting interface—enables programmatic analysis, manipulation, and detection of all aspects of the traffic in networks
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Technical Details
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
NetScaler ADC, HAProxy Community Edition, and Kemp LoadMaster are common alternatives for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
The most common users of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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May 09, 2024
f5 - you guys rock!
It serves the needs of our organization and assists with additional needs regarding the network.
March 22, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager review
We use both products and performed well.
March 22, 2024
F5 Big IP review
We are using both of them for load balancing and our web apps firewall.
March 22, 2024
Our Experience withF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
We combine the AWAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to not only deliver high performance apps but also secure the apps against so many kinds of threats.
March 22, 2024
F5 LTM to supporting BAU process
The F5 LTMs integrate great with the F5 DNS appliances and makes on the fly decisions using iquery. We have two HA data centers that the F5 LTMs are used in and integrate great with teh F5 DNS servers.
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is great
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) was the most robust and highest performing ADC product.
Its a complete security appliance.
February 13, 2024
Redundancy and failover capabilities
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) has more features, cost is higher in some scenarios, lower in others
February 09, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for application scale and redundancy in a localized environment
- F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management, F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM), F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), F5 BIG-IP DNS and F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator
February 09, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manage is a huge part of our F5 solutions in day to day bsuiness and practices
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April 27, 2023
Easy peasy
Reliability, efficiency, ease of management
September 05, 2022
The best and easy to use feature rich load balancer
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.