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F5 Networks

BIG-IP 

BIG-IP is aware of everything contained in the traffic going to and coming from the applications - allowing it to guarantee availability and accelerate application performance.

Key Benefits

Reliability - Delivers the industry's most proven and advanced system to ensure that applications are always available.

Accelerated Applications - Provides unmatched control to accelerate application performance by up to 3-times, ensures that priority applications are served first, and offloads expensive server cycles.  

Reduced Server and Bandwidth Costs - Triples server capacity through a rich set of infrastructure optimisation capabilities; reduces bandwidth costs by up to 80% through intelligent HTTP compression, bandwidth management and more.

Greater Network and Application Security - From DoS protection to cloaking to filtering out application attacks, BIG-IP adds critical security features that cannot be addressed elsewhere in the network.

Unmatched Application Intelligent and Control - The industry's only solution which delivers complete application fluency - enabling network-speed full payload inspection and programmable event-based traffic management to understand and act upon application flows.

Total Integration for All IP Applications - Provides a comprehensive solution that can integrate with all applications, not just Web based protocols.  Provides organisations with a centralised solution for all IP applications, including legacy and emerging applications like VOIP - all in a single unified system.

Industry Leading Performance - Delivers the fastest traffic management solution to secure, deliver and optimise application performance. Offers best-in-market SSL TPS, bulk encryption, and the highest concurrent SSL connections available today.

BIG-IP Global Traffic Management – BIG-IP Global Traffic Management provides high availability of IP applications/services running across multiple data centers around the world. It distributes end-user requests according to business policies, data center conditions and network conditions - ensuring the highest possible availability for your sites.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Management - BIG-IP is the local area application traffic management solution, ensuring cost-effective, secure deployment of enterprise, mobile, and Web services applications.

BIG-IP ISP Traffic Management - For organisations, maintaining only one link to the public network represents a single point of failure and serious network vulnerability. BIG-IP Link Controller seamlessly monitors availability and performance for multiple connections. Traffic can now be directed over the best possible link and ISP - ensuring the highest possible quality of service and speed for users.

iControl Services Manager - iControl Services Manager provides a single, centralised management and operational interface for F5 devices.

SSL Accelerator - As the leader in SSL acceleration, F5's BIG-IP SSL Accelerator provides the industry's fastest and most scalable SSL processing platform - easily handling bulk encryption and large traffic volumes while freeing up processing for other needed functions.