🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. NetScaler
- 📈 F5 BIG-IP is much more popular than NetScaler.
- 🌎 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada.
- 🌍 NetScaler is more popular in Belarus and Barbados.
F5 BIG-IP
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About
F5 BIG-IP is an enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.
It offers programmable Layer 4-7 load balancing with advanced health checks, web application firewall protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, DDoS and bot mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.
NetScaler is an application delivery and security platform that provides load balancing, application acceleration, and application protection for web applications and APIs.
It runs a single code base across hardware appliances, virtual machines, containers, and bare-metal 
Linux, applies web application firewall and bot protection in a single pass, and provides layer 4 through 7 load balancing, content switching, zero trust network access, single sign-on, and integrations with 
Splunk, Prometheus, and 
Elasticsearch.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the WAF category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the WAF category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Switzerland in the WAF category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the WAF category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the WAF category.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.