F5 BIG-IP

F5 Networks

F5, Inc specializes in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN) & performance.

SKUDONET

SKUDONET® began its public release in October 2010, and we have not stopped refining security, scalability, and high availability technology ever since.

F5 Network’s Strengths

• Has a solid and long-standing understanding of the ADC market and has the capability to address complex application environments.
• Possesses a broad product profile and has strongest brand awareness in the market.
• Provides multiple security, remote access, performance and application delivery capabilities.
• F5´s Silverine cloud-based services provide ADC functionality for on-premises and cloud-resident applications.

SKUDONET’s Strengths

• Disruptive vision with a stable growth as challengers in the ADC market, with an agile team and engaged community.
• Innovation driven with Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud).
• Very high cost-effective solutions without limitation products and services, suitable for both midsize organizations and large enterprises.
• Investment in R&D to deliver a technology driven by easiness, performance and security.
• Is a complete ADC (Application Delivery Controller) that could manage all kinds of network protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP/S, SCTP, SIP, T/FTP, …) but also with a combination of all of them simultaneously and multiport capabilities; and it’s not oriented to licensed features.
• Its operating system is fully optimized for networking so it is capable to move in layer 7 more than 140 thousand concurrent users and in layer 4 more than 10 million concurrent users with only 2 dedicated cores.
• Ability to create configuration backups, easy cluster configuration, automatic replication from one node to another and stateful cluster with real time sessions replications that permits a failover between nodes without losing any connection.
• Provides an integrated IPDS security system with real time black hole lists, DoS protection, black/white listing and protection of the most common network attacks.
• Provides a very UX graphic interface for both operators and network engineers in Angular 2 technology.
• Automation capabilities thanks to it’s fully programmable REST+JSON API.

F5 Network’s Weaknesses

• Is the most expensive ADC on the market.
• Has not adequately addressed the requirements associated with experimental or not well defined initiatives.
• Gartners clients and survey results confirm that the complexity of managing F5 BIG-IP functions is a primary concern.
• Relies heavily on selling redundant ADC pairs which drives up the customer’s costs of ownership.

SKUDONET’s Weaknesses

•  Young brand as an open source company and yet to develop a big influence than other more established vendors.
•  Needs to develop a broader partnership network.