BIG-IP Application Delivery Controller (ADC) hardware platforms can manage even the heaviest traffic loads at layer 4 and layer 7—including industry-leading L7 requests per second and SSL transactions per second. By merging high-performance switching fabric, specialized hardware, and advanced software, F5 provides the flexibility and scalability to make many complex application decisions without introducing bottlenecks.
With the high performance and scalability you get from BIG-IP hardware platforms, you can consolidate devices—saving management costs, electricity, space, and cooling—and still have room to grow.
Improve performance and gain complete control
BIG-IP hardware platforms are designed to work in concert with F5’s industry-leading TMOS software, which gives you complete control of all systems used to handle application and services traffic. To meet your high demands for complex application traffic and security decisions with minimal latency, BIG-IP hardware uses custom field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). These FPGAs optimize packet flows from the switch ports to the CPUs, provide near-linear performance scaling, offload L4 processing, and enable integrated hardware and software DDoS protection.
Scale and consolidate with greater flexibility
F5 ScaleN technology gives you ultimate flexibility to scale performance and services on demand. You can scale vertically or horizontally across clustered BIG-IP devices. Multi-tenant virtualization provides administrative and network isolation for effective consolidation.
Accelerate and offload SSL processing
Hardware-accelerated SSL encryption takes the burden of SSL off the application servers. By accelerating setup and bulk encryption, you can migrate 100 percent of your communications to SSL using more secure ciphers with virtually no application performance penalty or bottlenecks.
Offload hardware compression
BIG-IP hardware compression enables you to cost-effectively offload traffic compression processing from your application servers, improve page load times, and reduce bandwidth utilization and costs.
Achieve FIPS compliance
F5’s FIPS-compliant hardware security module (HSM) application delivery platforms provide enhanced security for SSL by storing, processing, and encrypting both the keys and data in a hardware security module. By consolidating FIPS capabilities with application delivery services on a single device, you can ensure protection for SSL-encrypted application traffic while simplifying compliance management and reducing costs.
Get carrier-grade quality and reliability
F5 controls the complete design and manufacturing process of all BIG-IP hardware. This includes selecting the most reliable components and performing rigorous environment stress system testing. F5’s commitment to the highest hardware quality ensures that BIG-IP platforms work reliably and last throughout the solution lifecycle.
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2013 ADC Performance Report
Now available: performance test results of Application Delivery Controllers for the top four vendors.
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