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Our Experience with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager
February 13, 2024

Our Experience with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

We use BIG-IP Access Policy Manager for a couple different use cases within our organization. We use it both for providing all employees within the company secure VPN access to company resources while working remote. We also use it to provide a more heavily secured webtop for very specific high-security applications within certain segments of our network that need to be more controlled.
  • Simple pushing of updates out to user workstations
  • Easy to add new tiles to our webtop for new resources
  • Ease of use of the Edge Client is a big point of satisfaction with users
  • CCU Licenses are limited by device and are not shared between APM devices
  • User sessions are not stored globally, so persistence can be an issue with users all over the world
  • Configuration can get complicated when split up between multiple sites
  • Simplified our approach to company-wide VPN solutions greatly by allowing us to use a single product instead of multiple products like we had before
  • Can handle 15000-20000 users at once with no issues
  • Was able to configure to support users travelling with 4G connections on their laptops and accommodate constant changing IP addresses
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager integrates extremely well with the rest of our F5 infrastructure which is a big plus and provides us with a familiar user interface, but it isn't as scalable in its current iteration as something like Zscaler Private Access.

Do you think F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)'s feature set?

Yes

Did F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) again?

Yes

I think that the platform is well suited to many Remote Access VPN solutions, but I also think there is a lot of room for improvement on the backend. If you are hoping to deploy your APM solution across many different datacenters or colos, it may not be the best choice for the final solution.