F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Reviews & Product Details

F5 BIG-IP LTM optimizes the speed and reliability of your applications via both network and application layers. Using real-time protocol and traffic management decisions based on application and server conditions, extensive connection management, and TCP and content offloading, BIG-IP LTM dramatically improves application and infrastructure responsiveness. LTM's full proxy architecture give users protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications. BIG-IP LTM also tracks the dynamic performance levels of servers, ensuring that applications are not just always on, but also are easier to scale and manage. BIG-IP LTM delivers SSL performance and visibility for inbound and outbound traffic, to protect the user experience by encrypting everything from the client to the server. With BIG-IP LTM, you get an enterprise-class Application Delivery Controller (ADC). You get granular layer 7 control, SSL offloading and acceleration capabilities, and advanced scaling technologies that deliver performance and reliability on-demand. The highly optimized TCP/IP stack combines TCP/IP techniques and improvements in the latest RFCs with extensions to minimize the effect of congestion and packet loss and recovery. Independent testing tools and customer experiences show LTM's TCP stack delivers up to a 2x performance gain for users and a 4x increase in bandwidth efficiency.

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Time to Implement

3 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Babu R.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/11/2026

"Advanced Traffic Management with User-Friendly Interface"

4/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

I really like that the GUI for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is user-friendly, and its features are more advanced compared to other products. The health monitors, iRules, SSL offloading, and detailed traffic monitoring provide me with better control over application traffic. F5 also offers more advanced traffic management and better load balancing than alternatives like Citrix. The initial setup was very easy thanks to assistance from OEM and the vendor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

I find the real-time local traffic logs unreliable. Currently, TCPDump is the only reliable source for inspecting traffic, but unfortunately, it does not provide real-time logs. Having real-time logs directly in the LTM interface would make troubleshooting easier and help identify traffic issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atul A.

Infrastructure Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/1/2025

"F5 is industry leading ADC vendor"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

product understanding, features, and innovations with time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

its dearer than competition. can have lesser bugs per code release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Surendhar S.

Citrix Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/14/2025

"BIG-IP LTM"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

F5 BIG IP LTM is a type of ADC (application Delivery Controller) it helps to load balanced our backend server along with different method of loadbalancing. here we can be able to configure access polciy that make our backend applicatoin sever get more secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

F5 BIG-LTM while try to configure the feature, we must activate the license with activate we could not be able to view the features in F5 BIG-IP console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/25/2022

"Easy to use Load Balancer to deploy in your Enterprise Network"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

The GUI is very user friendly, it just takes a few hours to get used to it. Creating nodes and pools is very straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

There isn't something that I have come across which I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM):

Easy to deploy and the support is very good. When we decide to deploy some hardware or software it is important that the customer service offered by the brand is good and F5 is really good in terms of serving their customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

The traffic management is pretty easy to implement and to start with, the licencing and provisioning is simple and LTM is deployed at our datacenter from 3 years now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Julius Caesar P.

Technology Support Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/15/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"LTM Load Balancer"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

What I like about LTM is that it is very easy to configure yet very powerful and effective. You can easily create a LB function for your servers. LB function can be used for sever redundancy, scalability and security as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

To be honest, There is nothing I dislike about F5 LTM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM):

I strongly suggest other companies to opt for F5 BIG-IP LTM because it is a system that is very easy to implement yet so powerful and very effective. You can use it for long years and the support is indeed outstanding. Not just LTM, you can also partner it with other features like GTM and AWAF Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

With F5 LTM, we we're able to solve problems on server scalability and security. The benefits we have realized is we can actually use our F5 LTM with other features as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muthu K.

Senior Network Architect & design Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/7/2021

"F5 LTM"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

The product stability, The hardware is very stable and has run for many years without any issues. The Security features are awesome to protect your applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

Frequent Software and batch releases are difficult to handle by the operations team with the current expectation of uptime SLA with the industry. F5 needs to come up with new solutions to take care of this issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yahon Y.

Network Support Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/15/2022

"Most stable LB"

4/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

The Best user interface of load balancing tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

price, and designed for huge organizations and proxy rule policies are still not easy to write. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anurag J.

Design Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/11/2022

"Best in class Load Balancing"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

Load Balancing Traffic, VIP Creation, Pool Members Creation, SSL Termination, Persistence, Rate Shaping, and thousands of features! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

Nothing as of now. Best in class when it comes for load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit J.

Technical Specialist, Network SVCS Maintenance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/14/2021

"F5 LTM provides application load balancing with great security features and cloud support."

5/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

F5 has a policy and iRule to modify traffic on layer 1 to layer 7. it has tcp & SSL profile to modify timeout and encrypt traffic for end to end communications.you have great control to modify traffic passing thru F5 LTM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

Network Map should improve more to display active connection statistics/logs for virtual servers. The profile should also include searching for a specific object. All these queries should show on Network Map (Web Gui). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM):

F5 provides powerful load balancing/encryption to hosted URL and applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am working on F5 load balancer for the past 6 years and resolving day-to-day operation queries for client URL / applications. I am using multiple options like the client/server ssl profile to encrypt communication and using SNAT to change the source IP address of the request.I am also creating iRule and policy to modify traffic based on URI , source subnet etc. I am also using curl command to check member server response from load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumit J.

Network Security Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/12/2021

"I have to provide support on VIP pools, nodes, iRules, SNAT and redirection of URL."

5/5

What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

F5 provides which I like mostly in this technology. We can optimize app availability and user experience with intelligent L4-L7 load balancing, SSL/TLS offloading and visibility, and programmatic traffic manipulation with F5 iRules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)?

As per my view in F5 downside Critical bugs and security issues seem to be problems lately, Graphical reporting could be better and Web interface is becoming outdated and clunky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM):

All BIG-IP products share a common underlying architecture, F5's Traffic Management Operating System (TMOS), which provides unified intelligence, flexibility, and programmability. Together, BIG-IP's powerful platforms, advanced modules, and centralized management system make up the most comprehensive set of application delivery tools in the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I like the fact that in F5 we can create and assign custom "Access Profiles" to any "Virtual Server" I have so different applications can use different access profiles. Another strength F5 BIG-IP has is its ability to run a report on the "Access Policy" to get information on all the sessions in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.