F5 Networks BIG—IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) gives you a depth of understanding about your network’s application traffic and control over how it’s handled. It transforms the chaotic volume of network traffic into logically assembled streams of data, and then makes intelligent traffic management decisions, selecting the right destination based on server performance, security, and availability. BIG—IP LTM™ enables sophisticated load balancing. But, that’s just the beginning. If you can see it, you can manipulate it. F5 Networks BIG—IP LTM™ is a full proxy, you can inspect, manage, and report on application traffic entering and exiting your network. From basic load balancing to complex traffic management decisions based on client, server, or application status, BIG—IP LTM™ gives you granular control over app traffic. For example, if you want to direct traffic based on the requested URL or log specific server responses to a reporting system, BIG—IP LTM™ has the architecture and the tools you need to do it. ScaleN™—elastic Infrastructure. Scale to your business needs by enabling more efficient, elastic and multi—tenant solutions for data centers, clouds and hybrid deployments.

F5 Networks BIG—IP LTM™ can optimize the speed and reliability of your applications via both network and application layers. Using real—time protocol and traffic management decisions based on application and server conditions, extensive connection management, and TCP and content offloading, F5 Networks BIG—IP LTM™ dramatically improves page load times and the user experience. Whether it’s negotiating high—latency networks or offloading millions of connections, F5 Networks BIG—IP LTM™ can improve the performance of your infrastructure and your applications. Increased performance and security. The SSL performance of F5 Networks BIG—IP LTM™ lets you cost—effectively protect the end to end—user experience by encrypting everything from the client to the server. It also scales on demand and absorbs potentially crippling DDoS attacks. Most network security devices aren’t built to detect malicious traffic in Layers 4—7. Separating the good and bad traffic and taking action on the malicious traffic is problematic. F5 Networks BIG—IP LTM™ includes levels of inspection necessary to block bad traffic and allow good traffic to pass through.

Scale And Speed In Sync With Your Network

Bandwidth minus the baggage. With F5 Networks BIG—IP LTM™, you get a sophisticated, enterprise—class load balancer. You also get granular Layer 7 control, SSL offloading and acceleration capabilities, and ScaleN™ technology that delivers on—demand scaling. Speaking of speed, the highly optimized TCP/IP stack, TCP Express™, combines TCP/IP techniques and improvements in the latest RFCs with extensions we’ve developed to minimize the effect of congestion and packet loss and recovery. In fact, independent testing tools and customer experiences show TCP Express delivers up to a 2x performance gain for users and a 4x increase in bandwidth efficiency — all with no change to servers, applications, or client desktops. Adapt to changes that challenge your network. F5 Networks BIG—IP LTM™ is programmable, so you can take the visibility and control it provides and immediately act on it using iRules, F5 Networks™’s event driven scripting language. From defeating zero day attacks to cloning specific app requests or dealing with custom application protocols, iRules let you adapt to app delivery challenges across the data center, virtual infrastructure, and the cloud.

Applications Delivery

F5 Networks BIG—IP™application services work exactly the same way in the public and private cloud as they do in the data center. Both the F5 Networks BIG—IP™ family of devices and the VIPRION™ chassis are purpose—built, powerful hardware that F5 Networks™ software runs on. F5 Networks BIG—IP™ virtual editions have the same features as those that run on F5 Networks™ purpose built hardware—and you can deploy them on any leading hypervisor or select cloud providers. From defeating zero day attacks to dealing with custom application protocols, F5’s event driven scripting language lets you adapt to application delivery challenges across the data center and the cloud. From configuration to integration, explore the F5 Networks™ technologies that will get you there. Save time and money by combining your access infrastructure with F5 Networks BIG—IP Access Policy Manager™ (APM). Its scalability lets you consolidate your access gateways onto a single device or virtual edition, powered by a single policy engine. F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ integrates with the enterprise mobility management products you use for enhanced security and ease of use.

Features And Benefits

F5 Networks™ diverse palette of technologies empower you to overcome the constraints of static, single—purpose solutions to deliver applications and data with greater agility, security, availability, performance, and scalability. Configuration at your fingertips. F5 Networks diverse palette of technologies empower you to overcome the constraints of static, single purpose solutions to deliver applications and data with greater agility, security, availability, performance, and scalability. Automate and save time. A powerful set of features, iApps™ speeds deployment and streamlines operations by giving you a holistic, application centric view of how applications are managed and delivered. Device configuration. iCall™ is F5 Networks™ Tcl based scripting framework for configuring your F5 Networks™ devices without affecting traffic directly inline. iCall™ allows you automate responses, manipulate network services and even adjust load balancing weights in real—time. iControl™—integration at your fingertips. iControl™ is our open, web services based API that allows complete, dynamic, programmatic control of F5 Networks™ configuration objects.