F5 Networks

F5 Networks - Application Delivery Networking

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.

• Global Traffic Manager
  • Enables transparent delivery of applications and web services across multiple sites
  • Ensures global business continuity and application availabilityDramatically improves performance and client experience by directing users to the best site on a global basis
  • Increases flexibility by delivering global traffic control to direct users according to any business policy including geography, load time of day, etc.
  • Provides a holistic view into application and data center health from a single locale, reducing management overhead
  • Increases the efficiency, scalability, and ROI of the global network by leveraging secondary data centers
  • Enables automation of complex tasks to reduce maintenance and management overhead



• Local Traffic Manager
  • Delivers the industry’s most advanced system to ensure that applications are always available.
  • Provides unmatched control to accelerate application performance by up to 3x, en-suring that priority applications are served first, and offloading expensive server cycles.
  • Triples server capacity through a rich set of infrastructure optimization capabilities, and reduces bandwidth costs by up to 80% through intelligent HTTP compression, bandwidth management, and more.
  • From DoS protection to cloaking to filtering out application attacks, BIG-IP adds critical security features than simply cannot be addressed elsewhere in the network.
  • The industry’s only solution that delivers complete application fluency, enabling network-speed full payload inspection, and programmable, event-based traffic management to understand and act upon application flows.
  • Provides a comprehensive solution that can integrate with all applications, not just Web-based protocols (HTTP/S). Provides organizations with a centralized solution for all IP applications, including legacy and emerging applications like VOIP – all in a single, unified system.
  • Delivers the industry’s fastest traffic management solution to secure, deliver and optimize application performance. As a proven leader, BIG-IP sets the performance bar with best-in-market SSL TPS, bulk encryption, and the highest concurrent SSL connections available today.
  • An advanced GUI greatly simplifies product configuration, offering granular visibility into traffic and box resources, as well as support for making rapid changes across large configurations.
  • Through partitioned views and application/protocol specific monitors, BIG-IP improves administrative functions and provides more application-aware traffic management.
• Link Controller
  • Establishes reliable WAN connections for business-grade Internet connectivity
  • Utilizes WAN link bandwidth more effi ciently with Rate Shaping
  • Reduces WAN link bandwidth consumption with Compression
  • Dramatically improves WAN link performance with TCP/IP optimizations using TCP Express
  • Ensures traffic is directed over the best possible link and ISP for the highest quality of service and speed
  • Maximizes ROI for connectivity by aggregating inexpensive links
  • Eliminates deployment barriers and dramatically reduces the costs of multihoming via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

WANJet

• LAN-like performance on the WAN
• Accelerate applications & optimize the WAN
• Lower IT costs
• Fast Return on Investment
• Configurable site-to-site encryption using SSL
• Ease of deployment

FirePass

• Best in Class Policy Management
  Unique Visual Policy Editor delivers an easy to use, intuitive, point-and-click interface for managing granular access policies while lowering management costs.
• Integrated Endpoint Security
  Delivers a Secure Virtual Workspace, pre-login endpoint integrity checks, and endpoint trust management for peace of mind with fewer administrative hassles.
• Broadest Application Support
  Provides secure and easy access to email, web portals, network file services, terminal services, CRM and other key enterprise applications, from both managed and un-managed client devices, from any location.
• Broad Client Support
  FirePass offers broad multi-platform support for secure network access from Windows (98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista), MAC, Linux and Pocket PC clients. Offers support for the new Vista client OS and IE7.
• Enterprise Class Scalability and Performance
  Supports up to 2,000 concurrent sessions on a single, easy-to manage device. Several 10,000s of concurrent sessions can be supported by integration with F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager. Optimizes the end-user experience using capabilities such as compression for any IP application traffic and server side caching for web applications.
• Broad Interoperability
  Supports existing network infrastructure and identity management systems via Active Directory, Radius, LDAP, PKI, RSA ACE, and more. Delivers web portal integration with support for Java applets, Javascript rewrite, and more (VPNC certified).
• Industry Leading Global High Availability
  Unique integration with F5’s BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager provides high availability across the WAN in case of site disaster. Fail-over support offers high availability within a site.

WebAccelerator

• Accelerates web applications for remote and mobile users by up to 10x
• Significantly reduces bandwidth usage by reducing the amount of data sent (IBR and data compression)
• Improves server capacity by offloading repetitive content serving (dynamic caching)
• Reduces web application deployment and maintenance cost by utilizing validated web application acceleration policies
• Easy to install and manage - requires no browser, user, or web application changes

TrafficShield

• Comprehensive Web Application Security
  Protects against entire classes of HTTP and HTTPS-based threats (both known and unknown) rather than guarding against a limited list of known attacks.
• Hardened Appliance Protection
  Protects servers from attacks and ensures that only valid responses get through.
• Targeted Attack Protection
  Protects scanners and other automated devices that can’t defend themselves against targeted attacks because these attacks involve a malicious user seeking vulnerabilities unique to a particular session. TrafficShield detects and mitigates pattern-less exploits in real time, adding complementary protection to existing firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems, which cannot efficiently address HTTP and HTTPS-borne threats.
• Random Attack Protection
  Application layer packet inspection and behavioral logic protect against counterfeit application activity, providing precise attack mitigation and granular blocking against script kiddies, known worms and vulnerabilities, requests for restricted object and file types, and other known exploits.
• Security Policy Management
  Automatically generates and enforces application security policies that are easy to manage, intuitive, and incredibly accurate.
• Comprehensive Network Security Services
  Provides a secure reverse proxy, including SSL acceleration, termination, and re-encryption to web servers, key management and failover handling, and basic network firewalling capabilities.
• Web Server Protection
  Hides your web infrastructure so that hackers can’t tell what servers you’re running. Strips out identifying operating system and web server information from message headers, conceals any HTTP error messages from users, and removes application error messages from pages sent to users while checking to make sure no server code leaks out onto web pages.
• VLAN support
  Delivers maximum flexibility for easier deployments.

Enterprise Manager

• Centralized software version management
• Automatic backup of device configurations for easy rollbacks or setups
• Centralized view of SSL certificates across all managed devices
• Eliminates configuration errors by ensuring consistency across your devices
• Platform support for up 300 managed devices
• Changesets (templates) - allows storage of standard configurations/profiles that can be quickly pushed out to devices
• Centralized user configuration management
• Export device inventory and certificate information
• Support for SSL key archiving
• Ability to launch a device’s configuration UI in context for rapid changes