F5 provides strategic points of control you can deploy throughout your IT infrastructure, enabling you to add, move, or redefine services on demand. You can create, modify, and scale your IT infrastructure to align with the changing demands of your business while supporting your organization’s long-term objectives. Instead of constantly reacting to business changes with costly, single-point solutions, you can drive your business forward on a flexible and strategic foundation of IT agility.

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McGill University wanted to demonstrate it was ready to support Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) as part of an overall network modernization effort. The university chose to implement the IPv6 Gateway feature built into F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™. The university saved time and money and had the right technology to support IPv6 now and in the future.

A large financial services company faced critical application outages whenever a data link went down in any one of its five charter countries. By deploying F5 BIG-IP Solutions, the organization exceeded 99 percent network uptime; network recovery measured in hours, not days, and business continuity, even amid regional Internet outages.

A systems integrator specializing in major IT projects for the federal sector was asked by a large government customer to create a consolidated, standardized, and centrally-managed server and storage platform in a virtualized environment. With F5 Application Delivery Controllers, the government agency is able to ensure high availability for applications and support a stable and secure virtualized infrastructure.

Lokahi Solutions, a cloud computing service provider, must ensure that its private cloud stack, the Lokahi Infrastructure Virtualization Engine, remains highly secure and continuously available. To achieve that level of performance, the company implemented F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers as a critical component of its cloud environment.

Human Kinetics publishes and sells print, online, and multimedia materials related to kinesiology. It hosts its own e-commerce website and nearly 40 other educational and storefront sites, which together get about half a million unique visits per month. A year after its deployment, HK's third-party network solution had become unstable, was inflexible and difficult to support, and impaired performance. HK replaced the solution with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Application Security Manager.

With the high performance you get from BIG-IP platforms, you can consolidate devices—saving management costs, electricity, space, and cooling—and still have room to grow.

Increasing amounts of data are being transferred between data centers, driven by data replication and backup, storage requirements, and data center consolidation. Virtualization and cloud computing have many benefits, but they also add latency to application delivery.

BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is a flexible, high-performance access and security solution that provides unified global access to your applications and network. By converging and consolidating remote access, LAN access, and wireless connections within a single management interface, and providing easy-to-manage access policies, BIG-IP APM can help you free up valuable IT resources and scale cost-effectively.

BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is a flexible, high-performance access and security solution that provides unified global access to your applications and network. By converging and consolidating remote access, LAN access, and wireless connections within a single management interface, and providing easy-to-manage access policies, BIG-IP APM can help you free up valuable IT resources and scale cost-effectively.

The F5 RMA Disk Retention Option allows customers to remove and keep hard disk drives (HDD) or removable compact flash disk (CF) units from a failed system before returning a device as an RMA.

F5 Data Manager improves visibility into the file storage environment. It provides monitoring and reporting of file data, including file types, ages, owners, and trends over time. You can see high-level statistics to better forecast capacity requirements as well as perform in-depth analysis. Data Manager can help you understand your organization’s true storage requirements and more efficiently manage your file storage environment.

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) provides a smarter way to respond to DNS queries than simple load balancing among data centers. BIG‑IP GTM distributes user application requests based on business policies, data center and network conditions, user location, and application performance. BIG-IP GTM scales DNS responses geographically among devices to survive DDoS attacks or volume spikes, and ensures global application high availability. This gives you holistic control of your global traffic to ensure better application performance, less downtime, and simplified management.

BIG-IP WebAccelerator gives your users an instant improvement in web application performance and helps you reduce costs. By offloading your network and servers, BIG-IP WebAccelerator decreases your spending on additional bandwidth and hardware. Users get fast access to applications, and you gain greater revenue and free up IT resources for other strategic projects.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Virtual Edition (VE) takes your Application Delivery Network virtual. You get the agility you need to create a mobile, scalable, and adaptable infrastructure for virtualized applications. And like physical BIG‑IP devices, BIG-IP LTM VE is a full proxy between users and application servers, providing a layer of abstraction that secures, optimizes, and load balances application traffic.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Virtual Edition (VE) takes your Application Delivery Network virtual. You get the agility you need to create a mobile, scalable, and adaptable infrastructure for virtualized applications. And like physical BIG‑IP devices, BIG-IP LTM VE is a full proxy between users and application servers, providing a layer of abstraction that secures, optimizes, and load balances application traffic.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) turns your network into an agile infrastructure for application delivery. It’s a full proxy between users and application servers, creating a layer of abstraction to secure, optimize, and load balance application traffic. This gives you the flexibility and control to add applications and servers easily, eliminate downtime, improve application performance, and meet your security requirements.

F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway is an accelerated remote access solution that brings together SSL VPN, security, application acceleration, and availability services. BIG-IP Edge Gateway can help you deliver peak performance levels to users accessing applications located anywhere, regardless of the user’s location or device.

F5 BIG IP Application Security Manager (ASM) is a flexible web application firewall that secures web applications in traditional, virtual, and cloud environments. BIG IP ASM provides unmatched application and website protection, a complete attack expert system, and compliance for key regulatory mandates—all on a platform that consolidates application delivery with network and application access and optimization.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) turns your network into an agile infrastructure for application delivery. It’s a full proxy between users and application servers, creating a layer of abstraction to secure, optimize, and load balance application traffic. This gives you the control to add servers easily, eliminate downtime, improve application performance, and meet your security requirements.

Your ISP connections are your link to the outside world. Having multiple connections can increase availability and performance, but managing multiple links can be difficult. BIG-IP Link Controller puts the management of these links under your control. It monitors the performance and availability of each link and directs connections—both inbound and outbound—over the best possible link.

ARX Cloud Extender maximizes the benefits of cloud storage while minimizing the challenges and costs of data access. ARX Cloud Extender presents a local file system to seamlessly integrate cloud-based storage into the existing environment and simplify access to data stored in the cloud. When combined with the automated storage tiering capabilities of ARX, ARX Cloud Extender enables you to effortlessly extend your file storage infrastructure from the data center to the cloud.

ARX Cloud Extender maximizes the benefits of cloud storage while minimizing the challenges and costs of data access. ARX Cloud Extender presents a local file system to seamlessly integrate cloud-based storage into the existing environment and simplify access to data stored in the cloud. When combined with the automated storage tiering capabilities of ARX, ARX Cloud Extender enables you to effortlessly extend your file storage infrastructure from the data center to the cloud.

Maintaining your system and troubleshooting issues can be time-consuming and tedious. Whether you want to fix a problem, improve performance, or view your system’s running configuration, F5® BIG-IP® iHealth™ can help you accomplish your task quickly and accurately. BIG-IP iHealth consists of BIG-IP iHealth Diagnostics and BIG-IP iHealth Viewer. BIG-IP iHealth Diagnostics identifies issues, including common configuration problems and known software issues. It also provides solutions and links to more information. With BIG-IP iHealth Viewer, you can see the status of your system at-a-glance, drill down for details, and view your network configuration.

Enterprise Manager is a centralized management appliance that significantly reduces the cost and complexity of managing multiple F5 devices. You gain a single-pane view of your entire application delivery infrastructure and the tools you need to automate common tasks, ensure optimized application performance, and improve budgeting and forecasting to meet changing business needs.

Enterprise Manager is a centralized management appliance that significantly reduces the cost and complexity of managing multiple F5 devices. You gain a single-pane view of your entire application delivery infrastructure and the tools you need to automate common tasks, ensure optimized application performance, and improve budgeting and forecasting to meet changing business needs.

F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway is an access solution that brings together SSL VPN remote access, security, application acceleration, and availability services for remote users. BIG-IP Edge Gateway drives identity into the network to provide context-aware, policy-controlled, secure remote access to applications at LAN speed. As the industry’s most secure and accelerated access solution, BIG-IP Edge Gateway can help your organization deliver peak performance levels to users accessing the applications and networks that are critical to your business.

F5 BIG-IP devices work on a modular system, so you can add new functions as necessary to quickly adapt to changing application and business needs. The following modules are available for the BIG-IP system.

The FirePass SSL VPN appliance provides secure remote access to enterprise applications and data for users over any device or network. FirePass ensures easy access to applications by delivering outstanding performance, scalability, availability, policy management, and endpoint security. The result is unified security enforcement and access control that increases the agility and productivity of your workforce.

The FirePass SSL VPN appliance provides secure remote access to enterprise applications and data for users over any device or network. FirePass ensures easy access to applications by delivering outstanding performance, scalability, availability, policy management, and endpoint security. The result is unified security enforcement and access control that increases the agility and productivity of your workforce.

BIG-IP Link Controller puts the management of these links under your control. It monitors the performance and availability of each link and dynamically directs connections—both inbound and outbound—over the best possible link. It also improves application performance by prioritizing and optimizing traffic. BIG-IP Link Controller gives you tools to direct traffic over the most cost-effective connections first so you can keep your ISP costs at a minimum.

As virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has become more prevalent, point solutions have emerged to address associated delivery issues. These solutions burden IT infrastructure, but with little benefit. Organizations need a solution that can offer added security, network performance improvements, and vendor-specific optimizations, all while improving architecture for non-VDI systems.

As the impetus to begin a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployment has grown in recent years, VDI solutions have begun to proliferate in the market. These solutions range from new features and functionality offered by market leaders to point products from smaller players that cater to enterprises’ VDI needs. A complete VDI solution should deliver a reliable, high-performing desktop user experience while taming complexity and supporting scalability within a secure, stable framework.

Rapid growth of the mobile and remote workforce is driving organizations’ need to support tens of thousands of concurrent users on a single appliance. To this end, F5 developed a high-performance, high-concurrency SSL VPN in BIG-IP Edge Gateway and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) to help enterprise IT migrate existing remote access solutions.

As attacks increase in both diversity and frequency, so have the failures of stateful security devices. An architecture based on the firewall services of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) effectively combats modern attacks.

Targeted attacks are growing and companies are scrambling to protect critical web applications. Both a vulnerability scanner and a web application firewall are required to properly secure web applications—and F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) offers both on a single platform.

Using VMware View, organizations can simplify and automate desktop management, reduce the total cost of desktop ownership, and provide end users with a high-performance desktop experience.

Human Kinetics publishes and sells print, online, and multimedia materials related to kinesiology. It hosts its own e-commerce website and nearly 40 other educational and storefront sites, which together get about half a million unique visits per month. A year after its deployment, HK's third-party network solution had become unstable, was inflexible and difficult to support, and impaired performance. HK replaced the solution with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Application Security Manager.

Rackspace Hosting wanted to broaden its product portfolio by offering customers an easy way to link dedicated managed servers to cloud-based servers. The company used Application Delivery Networking devices from F5 to help build a hybrid service called RackConnect. Now, Rackspace customers can mix and match dedicated managed and cloud hosting platforms for ultimate scalability, flexibility, efficiency, and lower costs.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBSKC) is the area’s largest health benefits provider. As a prominent local healthcare provider with a strong reputation for quality, BCBSKC recognized the need to ensure high availability and strong security for their website, which typically receives more than 30,000 hits a day.

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