G2 Vendor Directory

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Varnish Software

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

MetricF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

by F5

Varnish Software

by Varnish Software AB

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count40100
Ease of use9.18.6
Ease of setup8.97.9
Quality of support8.89.5
Meets requirements9.39.2
NPS73.52941270
Small Business8.1%22.0%
Mid-Market21.6%45.0%
Enterprise70.3%33.0%
Total page views186294
Total LLM citations1,1461,227

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

Varnish Software

Varnish Software’s powerful caching technology helps the world’s biggest content providers deliver lightning-fast web and streaming experiences for huge audiences, all over the globe. Our solutions combine open-source flexibility with enterprise robustness to speed up media streaming services, accelerate websites and APIs, and enable global businesses to build custom CDNs, unlocking unbeatable content delivery performance and resilience.

Pros

  • Caching
  • Ease of Use
  • Versatility
  • Performance
  • Performance Improvement
  • Performance Optimization