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BIG-IP WebAccelerator

Increase revenue and reduce costs with faster web applications

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Organizations depend on web applications to support business operations and drive revenue. All users need fast access—whether they are employees or consumers, mobile or remote. Slow page load times or unresponsive applications reduce employee productivity and can cause online shoppers to abandon your website.

BIG-IP WebAccelerator is an advanced web performance optimization solution that provides intelligent technologies to overcome performance issues with today’s complex rich media websites, web application platforms, mobile devices, and WAN latency. By decreasing page download times and offloading compression, caching, and SSL encryption from servers, BIG-IP WebAccelerator:

  • Decreases bandwidth usage, which reduces costs.
  • Provides better performance for e-commerce sites, which can result in increased revenue for your organization.
  • Accelerates applications, which helps your employees be more productive.

Improved mobile user experience

Mobile users face added challenges due to the proliferation of different types of mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets, that have different operating systems and browsers. The additional latencies due to the extra hop from cell towers and WiFi hotspots make matters worse. Users end up with page download times that are typically longer than what they get from the office or home. Using WebAccelerator with Intelligent Browser Referencing, repetitive content that doesn’t change frequently is cached in the browser. This speeds up page download times because the browser doesn’t have to return to the origin web server.

Application acceleration for remote offices

BIG-IP WebAccelerator solves WAN content delivery issues by locating content closer to users. This speeds up first and repeat visits to portal, CRM, e-learning, collaboration applications, and e-commerce sites by up to 10x. It significantly increases the speed and reduces the cost of using enterprise web applications in remote offices.

Symmetric acceleration for super fast performance

By deploying BIG-IP WebAccelerator in a symmetric configuration, you can increase web application performance up to 10x over unaccelerated applications. BIG-IP WebAccelerator is the only product on the market that can be deployed in both asymmetric and symmetric configurations simultaneously, giving you the freedom to choose the most appropriate configuration for your environment. Whether users are in a remote office, at home, or at a coffee shop, they are guaranteed to have the fastest possible access to web content and the best possible user experience.

Enterprise CDNs

Enterprises want to distribute content closer to their users, but using commercial content delivery networks (CDNs) can present a variety of problems. Content creators lose control of their material, regulatory compliance cannot be achieved, costs are high and variable, and remote office users cannot benefit from each other's downloads.

BIG-IP WebAccelerator can be deployed symmetrically in conjunction with other F5 solutions to create an enterprise CDN (eCDN) that gives enterprise websites high availability, denial of service (DoS) attack protection, and the fastest user experience. This solution also helps ensure regulatory compliance for confidential company information.

Reduced CDN expenses

BIG-IP WebAccelerator can help you lower CDN costs by reducing redundant and repeat downloads of content—even dynamic content—so less data goes to the CDN. BIG-IP WebAccelerator can help your enterprise augment its own content delivery architecture while still being able to fall back on a CDN overlay network when needed.

BIG-IP WebAccelerator is available as a standalone appliance, virtual edition, or as a product module for BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager or BIG-IP LTM Virtual Edition.

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