F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Features

Cloud Management

Cloud management tools provide a degree of administrative control over public, private and hybrid clouds

Avg 8.7

7.2
Cloud Management Security
(12) Ratings
Provision of various security capabilities such as Identity Access Management, encryption, and endpoint security
6.8
Automation and Orchestration
(8) Ratings
Provision of automated services for application migration, VM images, and configuration management
6.8
Cost Management
(8) Ratings
Provision of tools for cloud instance rightsizing and user chargeback and billing
7.3
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring
(11) Ratings
Monitoring of storage, network and application performance metrics to achieve business service levels
7
Governance and Compliance
(9) Ratings
Risk assessment analysis, audits and resource governance capabilities
7.1
Resource Management
(11) Ratings
Ability to manage and deliver cloud resources such as resource discovery and tagging, asset and license management and cloud-to-cloud migration
6.7
Systems Integration
(12) Ratings
Integration of internal and external systems to support multi-cloud management

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What is F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect?

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is a solution used to more easily and securely network across public clouds, hybrid clouds, and edge sites via an agile SaaS-based service. Users can rapidly connect instances deployed across multiple cloud regions and/or different cloud providers using Distributed Cloud Network Connect and its automated provisioning, integrated service stack, and end-to-end visibility. Cloud instances will be connected in minutes and always visible for rapid troubleshooting.

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F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Akamai, Cloudflare, and Imperva CDN are common alternatives for F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect.

Reviewers rate Cloud Management Performance Monitoring highest, with a score of 7.3.

The most common users of F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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March 22, 2024

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect as a Load Balancer

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect's load balancer to allow our system to be more fault tolerant and critical systems would not have a single source of failure and the product have helped us to achieve that.

Pros

Load balancer

Likelihood to Recommend

Using load balancer to allow our critical system like PAM to be fault tolerance and the secondary PAM is still functional when the primary PAM it not functional.

March 22, 2024

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect Review

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Defense & Space Company, 501-1000 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect helps me to have a better monitoring of the workload

Pros and Cons

Automation
simplify network management
low latency
optimised delivery
enhanced security

cost optimisation
continuos innovation

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect has integration capabilities

March 22, 2024

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect review

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 6 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use it to connect to telcos.

Pros and Cons

Connect
Bridge
Route

Cloud like i.e. able to scale horizontally automatically and seamlessly

Likelihood to Recommend

On prem like environments

March 22, 2024

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect product

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Government Administration Company, 201-500 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using it to connect different cloud service providers into our environment.

Pros and Cons

Ability to integrate
Backed by reputable company
Support available

Not so easy to use as it is a proprietary product
Expensive compare to cloud native
Not open source

Likelihood to Recommend

When you need additional security to connect between different cloud service providers.

March 22, 2024

Cloud Network Connect

Khin Maung Aye

Senior Network Engineer

RHB (Banking, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use F5 as application load distributer

Pros and Cons

Enhance security
Improve performance
HA
Throughtput
Bandwidth
Performance

Upgrade
Monitoring
Dashboard

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited

March 22, 2024

Review

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Banking Company, 501-1000 employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use to connect with our cloud presence.

Pros and Cons

Visibility
Performance
Easy troubleshooting
Easy setup

So far good

Likelihood to Recommend

All working well so far

February 13, 2024

A secure hybrid-cloud ingress supporting on-prem

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize the F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect as a secure hybrid-cloud ingress supporting on-prem and cloud workload to our global user base. Currently we are migrating existing applications as well as creating a new "green-field" environment as a new standalone organization. We need a product that is provides security at the forefront with minimal latency.

Pros and Cons

Centralized Hybrid ingress for our cloud workloads
Centralized ingress for our existing on-prem BIG-IP devices
Application visibility to address end-to-end visibility into the end-user experience

The support model needs a quite a bit of work. I personally have experienced an outage on the platform. due to mis-configureation Although the outage was due to engineer error it took over 2 hours before we were able to speak to an engineer
Proxy v2 protocol to allow our organization to capture and view the source IP address

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is well suited for connecting hybrid workloads. The support model is a real challenge as outages can be very expensive in term of loss to the organization as well as credibility for the product

February 13, 2024

The Network Connect aspect of the F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is an absolute game-changer!

Yegor Devyatovskiy

Lead Network Engineer

CBC Companies (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Network Connect aspect of the F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is an absolute game-changer! It is a full stack that replaces disparate pieces of networking architecture. We are looking forward to getting the connectivity connected between all our sites. The best part is how much happens on the backend to make an engineer’s job much easier. Glad that with the whole XC platform, the initial step to make things easy was the primary driving force.

Pros and Cons

Solves a difficult problem of duplicate IP addresses.
Product is very well documented.
There is a clear understanding of what is currently missing and needs added.

Still can’t quickly rename things!
Missing some aspects of APM being migrated into cloud.
Still a bit many use-cases for on-premise hardware.

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect Would be incredibly useful when having to juggle multiple cloud providers. Also XC would be fantastic for standardization and consistency of the whole networking stack. It may be less useful for incredibly specialized cases where very specific traffic manipulation is needed. Any use-cases with heavy APM usage would have to be carefully considered as those features didn’t make it into XC yet.

February 13, 2024

Site to site connectivity with F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect

Robert DeWeese

director of cloud networking

kyndryl (Architecture & Planning, 10,001+ employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mostly NaaS and MCN use cases for the F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect clients.

Pros and Cons

App security and portability
Network as a service
Site to site connectivity
Enabling internet first for clients

Needs ZTNA
More pop locations
More integration to tools

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is most appropriate is MCN with minimal global reach. For where we get eliminated from deals its pop connectivity and lack of ztna.

February 13, 2024

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is good for control of app flow and port utilization

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I utilize F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect to move application traffic between multiple zones. Connecting colocated environments, cloud platforms, and traditional data centers. All with a single platform to trust and control traffic.