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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
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- Solid impact.
- Increase of bandwidth across network.
- Optimal performance.
March 22, 2024
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- Decrease downtime
- Automated process to switch the internet connection
March 22, 2024
F5 Big IP review
- Prevent downtime
March 22, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- Increased availability of various common services
March 22, 2024
Use case of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager in a national pharmacy application project
- Our business application reduced its scheduled downtime with the help of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
March 22, 2024
Our Experience withF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- The positive impact of using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is we are able to simplify our day-to-day operations and also accelerate application publishing.
March 22, 2024
F5 LTM to supporting BAU process
- The price is high bu we get ROI faster when using it
March 22, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager review
- Does the job
- The F5 LTMs have had a very positive impact on our business objectives. Are websites are very heavily utilized with users all over the globe.
- The F5 LTMs have provided a mechanism for making difficult applications work with our current infrastructure like MS teams.
- The F5 LTMs are very good at customizing irules to deal with everyday issues.
- F5 is widely used for every applications that are deployed and it is efficiently used in our organization.
- In several troubleshooting, F5 and its monitoring and logging helped to investigate the issue and figure out the root cause in a quick manner.
- When some functionalities are deprecated, the existing iRules would get impacted during the upgrade, which requires good amount of time to figure out the replacement. Sometimes there is a situation to fall back.
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is great
- Easier deployment of new applications
- More secure deployment of existing applications
- Providing redundancy for applications
- moving VE and an ELA has made our deployment cost effective
- better integration with hypervisors
- Ease of implementation
February 13, 2024
Positive ROI when the app dev have weird use case the F5 BIG-IP LTM can usually make that happen
- positive when a server is going down and no one notice. Even the app team
- positive when the app dev have weird use case the LTM can usually make that happen
- Positive ROI since it helps maintain the uptime on our services.
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager has provided us more opportunities to expand our capabilities
- it has provided us more opportunities to expand our capabilities and entertain other platforms that are compatible with F5
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) preserves resources in the virtualization environment
- Patching team loves the convenience
- Preserves resources in the virtualization environment
- Provides security at the DMZ
February 13, 2024
Redundancy and failover capabilities
- Cost savings against NetScaler
- Additional customization to reduce platforms
February 09, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for application scale and redundancy in a localized environment
- Negative impact in that it makes it very easy for applications to be spun up but cleanup of old/ unused deployments do not happen causing resources to be consumed unnecessarily
- When used in a multiblade viprion guest, issues with backplane and blade replication causing impact
- Ability to deploy multiple instances helped with network segmentation
February 09, 2024
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manage is a huge part of our F5 solutions in day to day bsuiness and practices
- positive builds to provide ssl solutions
- also will provide seemless training on teams calls when showing colleauges how to use ltm
- LTM is essential to deploy config changes and maintain solid f5 infrastructure
April 27, 2023
Easy peasy
- Manages the amount of connections
September 05, 2022
The best and easy to use feature rich load balancer
- Our services/application uptime is 99.99%
- All our services/applications use SSL encryption
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) requires hardware appliances for the best results and that is costly