Array APV Series and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager compete in the application delivery and load balancing market. F5 BIG-IP LTM has the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set and technical capability, despite the higher price.
Features: Array APV Series includes flexibility and integrated security, SSL offloading, and application acceleration. F5 BIG-IP LTM includes advanced traffic steering, policy-based routing, and detailed analytics.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Array APV Series offers a straightforward deployment process with accessible support. F5 BIG-IP LTM provides a robust deployment model with extensive customer support and resources.
Pricing and ROI: Array APV Series is more affordable upfront, offering a lower total cost of ownership and quick ROI. F5 BIG-IP LTM's higher setup cost reflects its premium offering and potential for significant long-term ROI.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) | 14.3% |
| Array APV Series | 1.4% |
| Other | 84.3% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 62 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 32 |
| Large Enterprise | 86 |
Array’s APV Series provides the availability, scalability, performance, security and control to keep applications and servers running optimally. Local and global server load balancing, as well as link load balancing, ensure the highest levels of resiliency for your applications, while connection multiplexing, SSL intercept and SSL offload, caching and compression work together to deliver the fastest end-user experience possible. Array ADCs are available as physical or virtual appliances, or on popular public clouds.
F5 BIG-IP LTM optimizes the speed and reliability of your apps via both network and application layers. Using real-time protocol and traffic management decisions based on app and server and connection management conditions, and TCP and content offloading, BIG-IP LTM dramatically improves application and infrastructure responsiveness. BIG-IP LTM's architecture includes protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications. BIG-IP LTM tracks the dynamic performance levels of servers and delivers SSL performance and visibility for inbound and outbound traffic, to protect the user experience by encrypting everything from the client to the server.
BIG-IP LTM provides 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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