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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Akamai Cloud Computing

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

by F5

Akamai Cloud Computing

by Akamai Technologies

Overall rating4.54.6
Review count40410
Ease of use9.19.3
Ease of setup8.99.3
Quality of support8.89.2
Meets requirements9.39.2
NPS73.52941273.913043
Small Business8.1%72.1%
Mid-Market21.6%15.5%
Enterprise70.3%12.4%
Total page views1861,395
Total LLM citations1,14610,787

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

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.

Pros

  • Features
  • Configuration Ease
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Load Balancing
  • Simple

Akamai Cloud Computing

Akamai Cloud Computing is a platform and broad set of distributed cloud and edge computing services to help businesses build, deploy, and manage applications and workloads on the world’s most distributed network. Akamai’s distributed cloud computing platform is designed for developers and built by developers. The platform empowers developers to build apps and APIs using open standards designed to maximize portability and avoid lock-in. With core, distributed, and edge services, developers can choose where to deploy and scale compute, data, and security services, based on business needs.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Affordable
  • Features
  • Setup Ease
  • Easy Setup
  • User Interface