F5 BIG-IP, Best and Safest Load Balancing Mechanism
We use F5 as a load balancer in our company, both locally and on the DMZ side, for traffic to some servers. It has been very successful in …
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Evren BOZTEPE
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What is BIG-IP?
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. The BIG-IP suite of products supports a wide range of security and application performance…
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What is BIG-IP?
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. The BIG-IP suite of products supports a wide range of security and application performance needs. The suite includes BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) traffic management and optimization, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) identity and password protection, BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager, BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) web application firewall (WAF) and advanced DDoS protection.
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What is BIG-IP?
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. The BIG-IP suite of products supports a wide range of security and application performance needs. The suite includes BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) traffic management and optimization, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) identity and password protection, BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager, BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) web application firewall (WAF) and advanced DDoS protection.
What is BIG-IP's best feature?
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.7.
Who uses BIG-IP?
The most common users of BIG-IP are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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April 18, 2022
F5 BIG-IP, Best and Safest Load Balancing Mechanism
- Especially the recent critical bugs and some security vulnerabilities and the delays to close them are annoying.
- Graphical interface reports need further improvement.
July 30, 2021
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- Remote work meant that extra layer of security was needed. Big IP clearly helped the company in an easier transition to working from home.
- Stable, secure connection to coporate and non coporate websites
May 03, 2021
F5 BIG-IP load balancer
- Solved the issue with load balancing
- Helped us better understand our network traffic
- support ended too soon, we needed to replace
May 03, 2021
F5 BIG-IP helps provide maximum uptime
- Maximizing Uptime
- Automated Disaster Recovery
May 04, 2020
Not the best, but still good
- Cost-benefit is a good quality of F5 BIG-IP.
- Crashes happen, but overall, this is a good client.
- Having a good slice of employees remote workers makes F5 BIG-IP indispensable for my organization.
February 17, 2020
f5 BIG-IP can do everything you need, and more!
- It has enabled us to reduce unscheduled outages.
- It has also allowed us to reduce the number of scheduled outages by allowing rolling updates/changes.
January 29, 2020
F5 BIG-IP - It just works!
- Working remotely is consistent and reliable which makes for less down time caused by days out of the office.
- Allows users to work remotely from home or any other secure network.
December 07, 2019
Great for SSLVPN
- Helped replace an aging ASA-based IPSec VPN solution.
- Enabled VPN connections from a range of devices, including mobile.
- The only downside is that troubleshooting is relatively hard for someone with little F5 experience.
August 28, 2018
The easy road to balance the load with F5
- Negative: Cost of lab licenses to mimick our production.
- Positive: less down time for maintenance and outages increased production times
- Positive: SSL offloading increased server response times.
August 28, 2018
Good all around high end load balancing solution
- Load balancing is a requirement in most serious web environments, and this allows us to keep sites up and running in the event of partial server outages.
- Keeping sites extra secured with the advanced security and routing features is a plus.
- Less issues with our load balancers means better availability for our clients and less penalties from our SLAs.
- Easy for newer network engineers to learn means less time spent training them.
March 20, 2018
F5 BIG-IP is one of the best at what they do!
- F5 BIG-IP had an overall positive impact on overall business objectives by providing us with better ability to control our network and bandwidth via the use of F5's NLB feature.
- Another positive impact F5 has is the ability to simplify the use of our applications for our users by making authentication easier via the use of SSO (Single Sign-On).
September 05, 2017
F5 Networks: The Champagne of Peers
- Along with some deployment orchestration (thanks, F5 Dev Central!), the F5 platform has allowed for rolling code deployment in our environment, meaning zero production downtime.
- Using the "Best" license level (along with the features that come with it) checks a LOT of boxes on the PCI Compliance SAQ.
- We don't panic about zero-day vulnerabilities anymore. F5 has our back.