Global Load Balancing Solutions

Business benefits of using F5 for global load balancing include:

• Improved business continuity and scalable DNS.
  Users are directed transparently to the appropriate data center, even in the face of disasters or any other unexpected large-scale outage. High-speed DNS query responses from offloaded DNS can scale dramatically—up to 10×—protecting businesses from DDoS attack outages and volume spikes.
  
• Flexible deployment and lower management costs with higher availability for distributed applications. 
  F5 flexible technology deployed in all IT environments automates the management of dependencies between individual application services and controls DNS traffic, improving performance. F5 global traffic management supports IPv6 and IPv4 traffic seamlessly, enabling a consolidated single stack DNS.
  
• Compliance with security regulations and protected query responses.
  DNSSEC protection delivers a dynamically signed query response to ensure users receive secure information and to achieve DNSSEC industry compliance.
  
• Geographic load balancing.
  For sites that maintain content in different languages, geographic load balancing ensures that users around the world get the information they need in their own language. 
• Dramatically improved application performance.
  With advanced monitoring at the application level, users can be directed to the data center that will best deliver the application for each individual. Using IP Anycast integration, multiple BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) instances can receive queries using the same IP address for faster application performance.

F5's Application Ready Network is the ideal platform for global load balancing and DNS Services. As part of an F5 dynamic data center, F5 engineers have produced best practice deployment guides that give global load balancing, virtualization, and DNS security configuration instructions in step-by-step detail, saving organizations a considerable amount of time and money.

F5's BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) provides high availability, maximum performance, centralized management, and DNS firewall and security services for applications running across multiple and globally dispersed data centers. BIG-IP GTM distributes end-user application requests according to business policies and data center and network conditions to ensure the highest possible availability.