F5 Global Network

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F5 Global Network is an advanced networking solution designed to connect and secure workloads across multi-cloud and edge environments. It leverages a global private backbone and a cloud-native platform to ensure high performance, reliability, and security for applications, making it ideal for modern, distributed architectures. Key Features and Functionality: - Global Private Backbone: Redundantly connected points of presence across continents deliver high performance, reliability, and control. - Cloud-Native Platform: Utilizes a microservices and automated software stack, enabling fast, global deployments and propagation. - Enterprise-Grade Services: Includes routing, SD-WAN termination, load balancing, and multi-layer security, along with Kubernetes-based app orchestration and a globally distributed app gateway. - Network Security: Implements network firewall and AI-based anomaly detection, encrypting all traffic between PoPs using IPsec and micro-segmentation. - Application Security: Protects APIs and applications with threat feeds, signature matching, and AI/ML techniques, securing against both external and internal attacks. - Physical Security: Utilizes major colocation facilities with strict security procedures, ensuring secure platform access with video sensors, biometrics, and human verification. - High Capacity and Availability: Offers over 15 TBps of peered capacity across four continents, providing dedicated connectivity for cloud and SaaS providers. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: F5 Global Network addresses the challenges of managing increasingly distributed applications across on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments. By providing a secure, high-performance, and reliable network infrastructure, it simplifies operations, enhances application uptime, and ensures optimal performance. The solution mitigates risks associated with public networks, reduces network latency, and offers comprehensive security measures to protect against a wide range of threats, thereby enabling organizations to focus on their core business objectives without compromising on security or performance.

BIG-IP Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT)

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F5's BIG-IP Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation is a robust solution designed to address the challenges of IPv4 address exhaustion and facilitate a seamless transition to IPv6. By efficiently managing IP address resources, it ensures uninterrupted connectivity for both existing and new applications, even amidst increasing demands from consumers and devices. Key Features and Functionality: - Network Scalability: Supports a high number of IP address translations, rapid NAT translation setup rates, and substantial throughput, enabling service providers to manage extensive concurrent sessions effectively. - IPv4 and IPv6 Support: Facilitates the coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6 devices and applications, ensuring a smooth migration path without the need for costly hardware upgrades. - Security Integration: When combined with BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager , it offers a comprehensive security platform that includes DDoS protection, access control lists , and intrusion prevention systems . - Flexible Deployment Options: Available as high-performance hardware appliances, virtual network functions , cloud-native network functions , or in hybrid configurations, providing adaptability to various network architectures. Primary Value and User Solutions: BIG-IP CGNAT addresses the critical issue of IPv4 address depletion by enabling service providers to extend the usability of existing IPv4 resources while planning for a seamless transition to IPv6. Its high scalability and performance ensure that networks can handle increasing traffic demands without compromising on speed or reliability. The integration with advanced security features allows for a consolidated approach to network management, reducing operational complexities and costs. By offering flexible deployment options, it caters to diverse network environments, ensuring that service providers can maintain optimal performance and security as they evolve their infrastructure.

F5 NGINX App Protect

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NGINX App Protect is a cloud-native, lightweight WAF and denial of service (DoS) protection for apps and APIs. NGINX App Protect integrates with NGINX Plus and NGINX Ingress Controller, allowing it to be deployed anywhere from the data center to a Kubernetes cluster.

F5 NGINX Service Mesh

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Lightweight and seamless by design, NGINX Service Mesh scales from open source projects to a fully supported, secure, and scalable enterprise‑grade solution, no matter where you are in your microservices journey. Take control of Kubernetes with our turnkey, secure, service-to-service solution featuring a unified data plane for ingress and egress management in a single configuration.

F5 Application Traffic Insight

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F5 Application Traffic Insight enables you to more effectively monitor customer behavior and optimize the online experiences you deliver. F5 Application Traffic Insight is a real-time device identifier that utilizes advanced signal collection and machine learning algorithms to assign a unique identifier to each device visiting your site—enhancing user experiences and preventing fraud in the process.

F5 Training Unit

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F5 Training Units can be used to order any of the F5 Education Services offerings.Offers fast and flexible access to F5 training courses, Covers the entire F5 Education Services portfolio

F5 Secure Web Gateway Services

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F5 Secure Web Gateway Services verifies endpoint integrity before and after users connect to the web. It’s the only web access gateway to secure against both inbound and outbound malware. With powerful URL categorization and filters, you can allow, block, or confirm and continue access to sites and applications, on a user-by-user basis. It provides security without compromising employee productivity. With F5 Secure Web Gateway Services, you can gather content- and context-aware data, then process it using powerful malware analytics tools, so you can detect patterns that indicate complex attack vectors, like advanced persistent threats (APTs). F5 Secure Web Gateway Services allow you to connect to a cloud-based threat intelligence system that monitors web and social media content. By processing up to five billion content requests daily, it analyzes a substantial amount of current data to proactively predict, locate, and identify the latest threats.

F5 App Stack

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Deploy, secure, and operate distributed applications with uniform production grade Managed Kubernetes no matter the location—from private and public cloud to edge locations.

F5 Distributed Cloud Aggregator Management

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F5 Distributed Cloud Aggregator Management is a managed service designed to help organizations securely enable customer use of financial aggregators while mitigating associated risks. By leveraging intelligence from a global network of known aggregators and advanced machine learning, this service continuously monitors aggregator traffic, ensuring adherence to agreed-upon usage policies. Key Features and Functionality: - Authentication Visibility: Identifies and labels all login attempts as human, automated, or aggregator, providing clear insights into access patterns. - Credential Stuffing Protection: Detects and prevents credential stuffing attacks initiated through aggregators, safeguarding against unauthorized access. - Least Privilege Access: Enforces strict adherence to access policies, ensuring aggregators operate within predefined limits and authorized channels. - Anomaly Detection: Alerts financial institutions and aggregators when malicious frameworks or unusual activities are detected, enabling prompt response to potential threats. Primary Value and Problem Solved: F5 Distributed Cloud Aggregator Management empowers organizations to embrace open banking initiatives by allowing customers to utilize financial aggregators without compromising security. It addresses the challenge of managing third-party aggregator access by providing comprehensive monitoring, policy enforcement, and threat detection. This ensures that aggregators adhere to usage agreements, protects against credential-based attacks, and maintains the integrity of customer data, thereby fostering innovation and revenue growth in a secure environment.