


F5 Per-App Virtual Editions (VEs) provide traffic management and Web Application Firewall (WAF) functionality on a 'per-app' basis. F5 Per-App VEs deliver the same scalable, secure and customizable market-leading services provided by traditional F5 physical and virtual ADCs- at a price and in a form factor appropriate for supporting individual apps. Each Per-App VE supports 1 VIP and up to 3 virtual servers.


The F5 rSeries Appliance is a next-generation hardware platform engineered to deliver high-performance application delivery and security services. Built on a microservices-based architecture, it offers scalability and automation to meet the demands of modern applications and network deployments. Equipped with advanced Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs, the rSeries excels in SSL offloading and supports elliptical curve cryptography (ECC ciphers, all within a compact 1U form factor. Its robust Layer 7 request-per-second (RPS performance enables the consolidation of multiple services on a single device, enhancing operational efficiency. Whether for large enterprises or small to medium-sized businesses, the rSeries provides flexible CPU usage to align with varying performance requirements. Key Features and Functionality: - Microservices-Based Architecture: Utilizes a Kubernetes-based platform layer (F5OS for enhanced scalability and automation. - Advanced Hardware Acceleration: Incorporates modern FPGAs for superior SSL offloading and ECC cipher support. - High-Density Port Configuration: Offers increased high-speed port density per rack unit, optimizing data center space. - Flexible Performance Scaling: Allows dynamic CPU scaling to meet diverse application demands. - Enhanced Automation: Streamlines deployment and management of application services, reducing time-to-market. - Future-Proof Design: Supports both current and future versions of BIG-IP software, ensuring long-term investment protection. Primary Value and User Solutions: The F5 rSeries Appliance addresses critical business challenges by automating application services, implementing advanced security measures, and future-proofing IT infrastructures. By consolidating application delivery and security environments, it lowers total cost of ownership (TCO. Enhanced automation capabilities enable rapid deployment of critical applications, streamlining IT operations and accelerating time-to-market. With performance levels up to twice that of previous models, the rSeries consolidates multiple application services onto a single platform. Its advanced application protection features, including SSL processing offload and defense against prevalent attacks, ensure robust security for mission-critical applications.

F5's Security Operations Center (SOC is a dedicated facility that provides 24/7 monitoring, management, and support for F5 Distributed Cloud Services. Staffed by highly specialized security experts, the SOC ensures the continuous protection and optimal performance of applications and infrastructure across diverse environments. Key Features and Functionality: - Continuous Monitoring and Support: The SOC operates around the clock, deploying, managing, and supporting F5 Distributed Cloud Services to maintain robust security and performance. - Expertise and Certifications: The team comprises professionals with over eighteen security certifications, including CISSP, CEH, CSFA, CDRE, Security+, CCNA Security, F5 Certified, and GIAC, ensuring a high level of expertise in handling complex security challenges. - Comprehensive Service Offerings: - Scoping and Technical Validation: Reviewing and finalizing solution designs and configurations to meet all requirements. - Onboarding Support and Project Management: Guiding clients from initial project kick-off to successful service implementation. - Service Configuration and Policy Management: Assisting in building, implementing, monitoring, and fine-tuning policies to protect web applications, infrastructure, and data from emerging threats. - Platform and Network Resiliency: Protecting and optimizing critical platform infrastructure and traffic to ensure global availability of resources and services. - Attack Support and Incident Response: Providing expert attack identification, analysis, post-incident reports, and policy refinement to ensure rapid response to evolving threats and persistent attacks. Primary Value and Problem Solved: The F5 SOC addresses the critical need for continuous, expert-driven security management in an era of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. By offering 24/7 monitoring and support, the SOC alleviates the operational burden on in-house IT teams, allowing organizations to focus on their core business activities. The SOC's comprehensive services ensure that applications and infrastructure remain secure, resilient, and compliant, effectively mitigating risks associated with cyberattacks and data breaches.

F5 Distributed Cloud Synthetic Monitoring is a comprehensive service designed to proactively assess and ensure the health and performance of applications. By simulating user interactions, it provides real-time insights into application uptime, responsiveness, and overall health, enabling organizations to detect and address issues before they impact end users. This proactive approach significantly reduces the mean time to resolution for application-related problems, enhancing the digital experience for customers. Key Features and Functionality: - HTTP Synthetic Monitors: Simulate user HTTP requests to evaluate the health and performance of application endpoints globally. - DNS Synthetic Monitors: Assess the configuration, response types, and performance of DNS infrastructure to ensure reliable domain name resolution. - TLS Score Reports: Automatically generate daily TLS reports, providing scores based on exposed vulnerabilities, supported protocols, and cipher suites, aiding in maintaining robust security postures. - Global Monitoring: Deploy monitors across various global regions to gather data on user experiences from different geographical locations, offering a holistic view of application performance. - Focused Alerts: Receive targeted notifications and alerts, ensuring that operational teams are promptly informed of critical events requiring attention. Primary Value and Problem Solved: F5 Distributed Cloud Synthetic Monitoring empowers organizations to proactively monitor and validate application performance, reducing downtime and enhancing user satisfaction. By identifying and resolving issues before they affect end users, businesses can maintain high service availability and reliability. The service's comprehensive monitoring capabilities, including HTTP and DNS assessments, TLS evaluations, and global reach, provide actionable insights that facilitate rapid issue resolution and continuous performance optimization. This proactive monitoring approach ensures a superior digital experience for customers and supports the organization's operational excellence.

VELOS shortens time to market for new applications by automating operations and offering customization with full stack programmability. Delight developers and drive application development and delivery agility by enabling faster response times. VELOS automates your app services by implementing onboarding, configuration, telemetry streaming, and application deployments in minutes lowering OpEx.

The F5 VIPRION Platform is a high-performance, modular Application Delivery Controller designed to meet the demands of large-scale enterprises and service providers. It offers unparalleled scalability and flexibility, allowing organizations to dynamically adjust their application delivery infrastructure without disrupting existing services. By integrating multiple hot-swappable blades into a single chassis, VIPRION provides a consolidated solution that enhances performance, simplifies network management, and reduces operational costs. Key Features and Functionality: - Modular Scalability: VIPRION's chassis supports the addition of multiple performance blades, enabling organizations to scale their application delivery capabilities on-demand without service interruptions. - High Performance: The platform delivers exceptional throughput and transaction rates, with capabilities such as up to 320 Gbps of Layer 4 throughput and 160 Gbps of Layer 7 throughput, ensuring efficient handling of high-volume traffic. - SSL Offloading and Hardware Compression: VIPRION offloads computationally intensive SSL processing and traffic compression to dedicated hardware, enhancing server efficiency and improving page load times. - Virtualization Support: With F5's Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing technology, VIPRION enables multi-tenant virtualization, allowing multiple BIG-IP instances to run concurrently on a single platform, each with dedicated resources. - Redundancy and Reliability: The system is designed with redundant power supplies and field-swappable components, ensuring high availability and minimizing downtime. Primary Value and Problem Solved: The F5 VIPRION Platform addresses the challenges of scaling application delivery networks in response to increasing traffic demands and complex application environments. By providing a scalable, high-performance, and reliable ADC solution, VIPRION enables organizations to: - Simplify Network Infrastructure: Consolidate multiple ADC services into a single platform, reducing the number of devices and associated management overhead. - Enhance Performance: Offload intensive processing tasks, such as SSL encryption and data compression, to dedicated hardware, improving application responsiveness and server efficiency. - Achieve Cost Efficiency: Implement a pay-as-you-grow model by adding performance blades as needed, avoiding the need for over-provisioning and reducing total cost of ownership. - Ensure High Availability: Leverage built-in redundancy and fault-tolerant design to maintain continuous application availability, even during hardware failures or maintenance activities. In summary, the F5 VIPRION Platform offers a robust and adaptable solution for organizations seeking to optimize their application delivery infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability in the face of evolving business needs.

The F5 BIG-IP Automation Toolchain is a suite of automation tools designed to streamline the deployment, configuration, and management of F5 application services. By leveraging declarative interfaces, it simplifies complex processes, enabling DevOps and NetOps teams to efficiently integrate F5 solutions into their workflows. Key Features and Functionality: - Declarative Onboarding (DO: Facilitates the initial provisioning of BIG-IP devices for Layer 1–3 services through a single JSON-based REST API call. - Application Services 3 (AS3 Extension: Offers a declarative interface for configuring Layer 4–7 application services, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments. - Telemetry Streaming (TS: Aggregates, normalizes, and forwards application statistics and events to third-party analytics solutions, enhancing visibility and monitoring capabilities. - Service Discovery: Automates the management of pool members for applications deployed both on-premises and in public clouds, adapting to dynamic environments. - Lightweight Configuration Management: Provides a low-overhead mechanism for managing application-specific configurations on the BIG-IP platform, reducing complexity. - Visibility and Analytics: Integrates with BIG-IQ Centralized Management to monitor and analyze application configurations, ensuring compliance and optimizing performance. - Seamless Integrations: Supports integration with CI/CD toolchains, orchestration systems, and third-party ecosystems like Ansible, Terraform, Splunk, Azure Log Analytics, and AWS CloudWatch. Primary Value and Problem Solved: The F5 BIG-IP Automation Toolchain addresses the challenges of manual and error-prone deployment processes by introducing a declarative, process-driven approach to automation. It accelerates the deployment of critical application services, reduces complexity, and enhances visibility, thereby improving operational efficiency and ensuring consistent, secure, and scalable application delivery across diverse environments.



F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to optimize and secure every app and API anywhere, including on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organizations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats. For more information, go to f5.com.