F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Score8.9 out of 10

38 Reviews and Ratings

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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#1 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

20.9%

116 installations of 556

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

19.2%

107 installations of 556

#3 most frequent

Information

14.2%

79 installations of 556

Hock Zhang Peh

Software engineer in Engineering at ola krutrim (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager as the load balancer for servicing huge load requests

Pros

Good support from F5
Good latency
Configurable
iRule for debugging

Cons

More insights of the graphical analytic of the LTM traffic to debug latency spike

Return on Investment

Expensive initial investment
Ease of deployment

Usability

Verified User

Consultant in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization uses F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to manage and optimize application traffic delivery within data centers, Key use cases including load balancing, security ssl/tls offloading and performance optimization enabling my organization to deliver applications reliably and security to our internal and external customers.

Pros

Performance optimization
SSL/TLS offloading
load balancing
security

Cons

incorporate AI to the user interface to assist IT Admin to configuring it.

Return on Investment

Good Return of Investment even those it is not cheap as compared to your competitors offering.

Usability

Other Software Used

Flookup for Google Sheets, LMS365

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Se utiliza para balanceo de trafico de plataformas centralizadas de mision critica para la compania. Al tener una granja de servidores con El mismo aplicativo, es necesario utilizar El balanceo de trafico para las peticiones a cada uno de los servidores para distribucion de sesiones para flujos de aprovisionamiento y entrega de contenido.

It is used to balance traffic between centralized, mission-critical platforms for the company. Since a server farm hosts the same application, it is necessary to use traffic balancing for requests to each server to distribute sessions for content provisioning and delivery flows.

Pros

Diferentes tipo de balanceo segun la necesidad
Different types of balancing according to the need
Seguridad
Security
Maximizer El rendimiento de los aplicativos
Maximizer Application Performance

Cons

Automatizacion
Automation
Analisis de trafico en detalle
Detailed Traffic Analysis
Integracion con otras herramientas
Integration with other tools

Return on Investment

Estabilidad en los servicios de aprovisionamiento
Stability in provisioning services
Mejorar El rendimiento de la aplicacion
Improve application performance

Usability

Alternatives Considered

A10 Networks AX Series

Sai Deepak Kunchey

Network Engineer in Engineering at CIGNA (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for load balancing 3000 applications

Pros

IRULES

Cons

UI
more accurate documentation

Return on Investment

Reduce cost

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Akamai

Other Software Used

Akamai

Greg Overley

Senior Systems Programmer in Information Technology at Clark County, NV (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager in three different production environments, each with a different customer base and requirements. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager lets us scale or update backend resources easily and without disruption to the end users.

Pros

Manage traffic
Direct traffic based on specific use cases
Provide a mechanism for back end server maintenance without disruption

Cons

Analytics

Return on Investment

Reduced site downtime due to server maintenance dramatically

Usability

Alternatives Considered

VMware Avi Load Balancer

Other Software Used

Infoblox DDI (BloxOne)

HAProxy Community Edition

A10 Thunder ADC

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