#1 most frequent
Germany
53.4%14,373 installations of 26,928
What is F5 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.
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Who Buys & Uses F5 BIG-IP
#1 most frequent
Finance and Insurance
7.9%2,128 installations of 26,817
“We use it in the application delivery of new products and in the ecosystem of our authorizers.”
#2 most frequent
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
7.7%2,056 installations of 26,817
“Scope of our use case is managing traffic, so load balancing between a couple of different locations allows us to do disaster recovery testing and keep everything available.”
#3 most frequent
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing
3.5%951 installations of 26,817
#2 most frequent
United States of America
19.1%5,144 installations of 26,928
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4.9%1,328 installations of 26,928
Pros
- Robust traffic management and load balancing for application distribution.
- Strong security capabilities, including WAF and SSL security.
- High reliability and stability for continuous application availability.
Cons
- Complex user interface and general ease of use.
- Need for specific GUI improvements like a global search feature.
- Documentation and overall usability require clearer guidance.
F5 BIG-IP really works
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I feel F5 BIG-IP accelerates the application and improve user experience by 30%. BIG-IP includes robust security features such as an advanced web application firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, bot mitigation, and IP intelligence to help safeguard applications from common threats and zero-day vulnerabilities.
Pros
- it improves access to application speed
- Supports device clusters, geographic redundancy, and failover groups for resilience.
- Ensures uptime and seamless service even during maintenance or failure.
Cons
- Licensing is complex and expensive, particularly for smaller organizations.
- The GUI can be overwhelming and unintuitive, especially for new users.
- the caching needs to be increased
Return on Investment
- Avoidance of downtime, data loss, reputational damage, and compliance penalties.
- Fewer servers needed and better end-user experience, reducing churn and boosting engagement.
- Each support needs to be trained
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Azure DDoS Protection
Other Software Used
Azure Application Gateway, Azure App Service, Azure AI Bot Service
The best load balancer in the market
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We need to load balances some critical applications and be PCI compliance . we also need high availability and throughput to permit a big amount of traffic between clients and applications , we have nearly 20 services exposes in the front application and 2 Datacenter in a high availability configuration. we test al traffic and the application performance and all was ok
Pros
- Load balancing
- Service performance report
- Policy for every application
- Routing and security based in service
Cons
- Graphic user interface
- Reporting
- IA for I rules
Return on Investment
- Good ROI considering better availability
- High availability and DRP it’s better in scenarios where you have critical services
- We used big IP also for improve DNS response time , so , we get better performance for our applications
Usability
Alternatives Considered
NGINX and Citrix Gateway
Other Software Used
NGINX Plus, IBM DataPower Gateway
F5 BIG-IP Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
we need load balancer for our server farm that is easy to use and fit our requirement of the green blue deployment
Pros
- easy to use and managed
- scale well
- reliable
Cons
- nil
Return on Investment
- the product has served well on the Return on investment especially in the enterprise level of the deployment, where it can handle the capacity so well, that we are able to achieve cost savings by just provisioning F5 without complex multi solution.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Azure Application Gateway
Other Software Used
NGINX
F5 Big-IP Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use BIG-IP for load balancing wherein we have pool members behind that particular VIP address and the entire traffic comes to the VIP. Then, depending on the policy, whatever we configure, the traffic gets directed to the backend pool members. Obviously it's a security reason as well. Why we use F5, we don't want to expose directly our servers to the traffic and obviously the major use case for us is for remote VPN users who remote in using F5 BIG-IP client and then they get onto the office network or corporate network. And then nowadays it's almost everyone is working remotely, so we heavily rely on BIG-IP.
Pros
- I would say each and everything that it does, it does very well. We have not run into any issues so far, so we're really happy with the product.
Cons
- Recently we have been deploying F5 web application firewall and we have started the deployment. We have already moved applications out there, but we are not yet to the point wherein I could comment any positive feedback or any negative feedback because we are still going through it, right. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't see any drawbacks or any shortcomings on the F5 product lineup.
Return on Investment
- Obviously all positive impact.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Other Software Used
Cisco AnyConnect
Positive F5 BIG-IP experience for new deployment
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use F5 BIG-IP for standard LTM load balancing with some GTM/DNS geo-location for cross data center services. F5 BIG-IP provides SSL security and general application load balancing for most of our infrastructure services.
Pros
- Consistent deployment structure for vservers
- Highly customizable profiles with straight-forward inheritance
- Flexible deployment model (VE, hardware, etc.)
Cons
- Easier support for multiple pools behind a vserver
- Better documentation on features/options under configurations
- Object UUID model or similar to allow flexibility in renaming objects
- Improve cli stat data and ability to view running configurations
Return on Investment
- Ease of deployment in migrating from previous vendor
- Cost savings and feature/scale flexibility with FCP
Usability
Other Software Used
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), NetScaler, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Arista 7800R3 Series, GitHub
