BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) improves the performance and availability of your applications by intelligently directing users to the closest or best-performing data center. Using high-performance DNS services, BIG-IP GTM scales and secures your DNS infrastructure from DDoS attacks, and it delivers a complete, real-time DNSSEC solution.
Achieve faster app performance and availability
BIG-IP GTM directs your users to the nearest data center that will provide the best application experience. This ensures your distributed applications are always fast and available. BIG-IP GTM employs a range of global load balancing methods and intelligent monitoring specific to each application and each user. It also routes traffic according to your business policies and current network and user conditions.
- Chooses the closest or best performing data center
- Continuously monitors application availability
- Routes traffic based on business logic to available applications
Get high-performance DNS and security
BIG-IP GTM scales up to 10 million responses per second (RPS) to manage rapid increases in DNS queries. Using a set of features that includes multicore scalability, DNS Express, and IP Anycast integration, BIG-IP GTM handles millions of queries to deliver high-speed DNS query responses, protects your organization from DDoS attacks, and ensures top performance for users. With DNS caching and resolving, BIG-IP GTM enables fast, same-site responses in a shorter period of time.
- Ensures users have access to apps during volume spikes
- Keeps your DNS infrastructure dynamic and available
- Speeds web browsing, thanks to an 80 percent latency reduction
Gain complete DNSSEC for globally distributed data centers
Typical global server load balancing can leave local DNS servers and your infrastructure open to DNS cache poisoning and other attacks. BIG-IP GTM solves this with real-time, signed responses for every query, protecting your users and your business while providing the benefits of high-performance global traffic management. In addition, CPU-intensive DNSSEC validation computations are offloaded to BIG-IP GTM to ensure rapid responses.
- The DNSSEC signing option for BIG-IP GTM ensures that LDNS servers receive only secure information.
- BIG-IP GTM provides client-side DNSSEC validation and offloads CPU-intensive verification.
Flexibly deploy in all environments
BIG-IP GTM can be configured as a full proxy for global load balancing applications and DNS across architectures—and across the globe. For greater flexibility, you can use BIG-IP GTM Virtual Edition (VE) to extend DNS services and global app availability to cloud or virtual environments and maintain centralized control within the data center.
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