The F5® BIG-IP® application delivery network platform manages massive traffic loads from Layer 4 to Layer 7. By combining high-performance switching architecture, dedicated hardware, and advanced software, F5 gives users the flexibility to make deep application decisions without bottlenecks. With the high performance of the BIG-IP platform, you can consolidate equipment, thereby saving data center management costs while saving power, space and cooling resources, and there is still room for improvement. Through the perfect unified operation of BIG-IP hardware and software, BIG-IP new platform can provide users with a complete integrated application delivery solution, providing users with high availability, speed, security and other guarantees for their business, and is perfectly reflected in the following aspects. property Industry-leading technology metrics (L7 RPS, SSL and Compression Throughput) unsurpassed ADC integration service capabilities Strongest protection against DDoS attacks Highest performance and power consumption ratio expandability Real-time on-demand expansion of your service The multi-tenant virtualization collection enables flexible application deployment and expansion Quality and reliability Hardware designed for application delivery needs High quality and availability at the operational level guarantee online time with user choice and satisfaction in the world's fields Integrated hardware and software systems designed for application delivery needs Achieve high performance and scale on demand Meet operational level high availability requirements - Achieve 99.999% high availability Continuous product support for years After sales provides a real-time online management system for problem discovery and resolution Key benefits of BIG-IP's new platform Integrate your infrastructure with dedicated hardware The BIG-IP hardware platform is specifically designed for application delivery. A single device can be configured with multiple functions such as server load balancing, global data center load balancing, DNS services, access management, web performance optimization, and WAN optimization. BIG-IP systems use high-performance SSL and compression hardware along with advanced connection management capabilities to take power-intensive tasks out of the application server and use those resources more efficiently. Protect your network The ICSA-certified BIG-IP platform has Layers 3 to 7 of protection, provides a default all-deny security mode, a comprehensive packet filtering engine that restricts access with extreme precision, and features industry-leading application security firewalls. Reduce your operating costs With the out-of-band management, front panel management, hot upgrade, remote boot, and USB support provided by easy-to-manage BIG-IP hardware, you can reduce the time spent on configuration, upgrades, and maintenance. Reduce your data center power and cooling costs by using an 80 Plus Gold and silver certified high efficiency power supply. Maximize uptime With hot-swappable components, redundant power supplies, redundant fans, compact flash memory, multiple boot support, and always-on management, you can ensure your critical infrastructure is built on reliable hardware. Achieve high availability and application-level failure recovery by deploying devices in traditional master/standby or horizontal cluster (master/master) configurations. Using the new BIG-IP platform brings you: • Significantly increased business value and delivery capabilities • Latest designs based on the needs of many real users • New F5 intelligent service architecture foundation • More powerful application performance and scalability • Easy end-to-end application delivery Intelligent performance is crucial In the past, performance was measured in throughput, but this did not accurately indicate the complex requirements of application delivery. Connection capacity and 7-layer transactions per second are critical for ADCs to meet the growing demands of modern Web applications and infrastructure. For example, ADCs must be able to handle a large number of L4 and L7 connections and make more decisions at the application level, such as detecting and removing sensitive information or shifting application-specific payloads. BIG-IP devices have the intelligence and performance necessary to make the maximum number of application layer decisions while keeping your data and infrastructure safe. Simplify your network BIG-IP ADC devices help you simplify your network by offloading servers and consolidating devices, saving on data center management costs while saving on power, space, and cooling costs. Thanks to the superior performance and scalability of the BIG-IP platform, you can also reduce the number of application delivery controllers required to deliver your most demanding applications. By offloading compute-intensive processes, you can significantly reduce the number of application servers you need. BIG-IP hardware includes: SSL Hardware acceleration - Offloads costly SSL processing loads to accelerate key exchange and batch encryption with the highest SSL performance on the market. Hardware compression - Cost-effectively offloads the traffic compression processing load on the server, shortening page load times and reducing bandwidth usage. • OneConnect™ Connection Pooling - Aggregates millions of TCP requests into hundreds of server-side connections, increasing server capacity and ensuring requests are processed efficiently. Embedded Data Acceleration Technology (ePVA) - provides high performance L4 throughput and denial of service (DoS) attack protection. Using field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology and tight integration with TMOS and software, ePVA is able to provide: • High-performance interconnection between Ethernet ports and processors • 4-layer handling offloads for leading throughput and reduced software load • Supports hardware-accelerated SYN attack protection • Hardware detects and blocks more than 20 DoS attacks Predictable performance support for low-latency protocols, such as the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol Benefits of F5 BIG-IP technology The unique architecture and patented hardware and software innovations give the F5 unmatched capabilities, including: F5 ScaleN architecture ScaleN enables you to virtualize or horizontally cluster multiple BIG-IP devices using all available CPU resources, creating a resilient application delivery network infrastructure that can effectively adapt to your changing business needs. Scaling on Demand - Increase capacity and performance with scaling on demand, so you can increase capacity and performance by simply adding more processing power to your existing infrastructure without adding more equipment. With an on-demand software license, the latest BIG-IP devices can be upgraded to higher performance models in various families. Without the need to buy new hardware, on-demand licensing enables businesses to determine the optimal scale of application delivery services and support continued growth. Operational scaling - F5 is able to virtualize application Delivery controller (ADC) services using a multi-tenant architecture. The architecture supports a large number of BIG-IP versions and product modules on a single device. Multi-tenant device virtualization is provided by F5's unique Virtual Cluster multiprocessing (vCMP®) technology, which enables certain hardware platforms to run multiple BIG-IP client instances. Each BIG-IP client instance looks and runs like a physical BIG-IP device with a dedicated allocation of CPU, memory, and other resources. Next generation ADC equipment With the latest BIG-IP 2000 series, 4000 Series and 7000 Series devices, F5 continues to invest and innovate in hardware development to ensure that even the most demanding Web applications are highly available, secure and fast. The new BIG-IP hardware delivers industry-leading performance in application decisions per second, SSL processing, and hardware compression for all levels of ADC platforms. Enterprises and service providers can deploy multiple application delivery services on a single unified platform to offload SSL processing and consolidate efficiently. In addition, with the ability to upgrade from infrastructure equipment to higher-capacity models within the family through software licensing agreements, F5's offerings offer excellent on-demand flexibility to adapt to changing business needs.
