--- title: F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Reviews meta\_title: 'F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 41 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 41 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' parent\_category: name: Hosting url: https://www.g2.com/categories/hosting --- # F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) but has limited features. Are you part of the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [F5](https://www.g2.com/sellers/f5-f6451ada-8c47-43f5-b017-58663a045bc5) Discussions [F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-big-ip-local-traffic-manager-ltm/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Chase Abbott Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-big-ip-local-traffic-manager-ltm/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Azure Application Gateway](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Application Gateway") Azure Application Gateway 4.4/5(162) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-application-gateway/reviews) [ ![Progress Kemp LoadMaster](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Progress Kemp LoadMaster") Progress Kemp LoadMaster 4.7/5(214) ](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-kemp-loadmaster/reviews) [ ![Azure Traffic Manager](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Traffic Manager") Azure Traffic Manager 4.4/5(18) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-traffic-manager/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-big-ip-local-traffic-manager-ltm/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 41 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Apache Tomcat ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-tomcat/reviews) Show More ![Sumit J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sumit J.") SJ 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. Upsides of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) helps you deliver your applications to your users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way. You get the extensibility and flexibility of application services with the programmability you need to manage your physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. 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. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") AH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/28/2021 "Full Proxy Load Balancer" 5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? F5 Local Traffic Manager have a lot of feature which can increase the speed applications via both application and network layers. Oneconnect feature is one of the best feature of F5 LTM. Another good feature is iRule. iRule is TCL based scripting language. You can manipulate the client side request and server side response with iRule. Because of SSL offloading consume more CPU you can offload the SSL traffic at F5 LTM asics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? Web GUI is good but old-fashioned. It can be an GUI built using up-to-date technology 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? F5 LTM solved our application's performance issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/31/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Máté K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Máté K.") MK Máté K. DevOps Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/18/2020 "One of the slowest solutions i've ever used." 2.5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? You can configure everything pretty easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? The UI is very outdated, not something user friendly. 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? Balancing load on application layer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/18/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite PS Pablo S. Network and Security Administrator 7/5/2021 "Great load balancer" 5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? LTM offers great flexibility on what you can do with its virtual servers. As an example of our use-case, you can easily attach multiple SSL certificates (via profiles) to a virtual server. This is a huge advantage to its competitors (at least those I've used don't support such feature). Also: iRules! You can allow, block or redirect traffic (and a lot of advanced things as well) with just a few sentences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? At the beginning the learning curve is steep, and it takes quite some time to discover all the features it offers. 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 primary benefit is clearly load balancing and providing HA to our most critical applications (both internal and external), providing extra security by leveraging WAF/ASM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Gaurav J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gaurav J.") GJ Gaurav J. Cloud Network and Security Senior Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/12/2021 "LTM mean Load balancing" 5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a magical device when it comes to delivering applications.- We can do many things by applying iRules and profiles as per application requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? Nothing as I know, but yeah, there is always something to improve! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM): Just go for it 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? VIP Accessibility Whitelisting by iRules Certificate renewals Profiles creation as per requirement And many more... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![David L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "David L.") DL David L. IT Systems Engineer Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/20/2021 "Great product for controlling traffic for internal and external sites" 5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? It is relatively easy to use and has worked for all our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? There are some parts that we did have to contract out to help get set up...so there are some more complex parts if you are setting up iRules. 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? We needed a product to replace an older legacy system that would provide security to our internal websites to the outside world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Augustus Caesar M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Augustus Caesar M.") AM Augustus Caesar M. Solutions Architect Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/19/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "A very impressive and scalable ADC" 5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? The ease of configuring and managing the appliance and, at the same time, resources and guides are also available in the web portal. In terms of the device itself, it is highly scalable and robust. It has a wide range of many solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? The only thing I can think of is the price. 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? Using the LTM as a load balancer for multiple application servers and, at the same time, redirecting the traffic to different gateways according to the protocols. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Wahed S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Wahed S.") WS Wahed S. F5 Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/21/2021 "LTM product review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? Smart Algorithms used for various load balancing, persistence, http and tcp profiles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? Cannot think off, may be change the web ui 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? SSl offloading, smart load balancing etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rahul B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rahul B.") RB Rahul B. SAP Lead Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/12/2021 "F5 bigip is very useful tool to load balance traffic for applications" 5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? User friendly gui which helps to work easily and perform our tasks and help in redirecting traffic and adding zones.Creating pool nodes and applying different policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? Sometimes it lags otherwise it is a good tool 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? Load balancing the traffic and applying security level policies and also the SSL certificate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ketan B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ketan B.") KB Ketan B. Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/8/2021 "LTM Review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? Its one of the best tool used for load balancing in between th e web servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)? Nothing i can think of as there is nothing to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM): Best load balancer in 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? SSL off loading, Web server application load distribution, Outside connectivity from Application server towards internet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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