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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is a flexible, high-performance access and security solution. With BIG-IP APM, you can provide policy- based, context-aware access to users while simplifying authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) management. By providing full AAA control directly on the BIG-IP system, BIG-IP APM enables you to consolidate your access infrastructure, reduce authentication and authorization costs, and scale to support thousands of users simultaneously.

F5’s BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM) is an advanced web application firewall that significantly reduces and mitigates the risk of loss or damage to data, intellectual property, and web applications. BIG-IP ASM provides end-to-end application protection, advanced monitoring, and centralized reporting, and it addresses key regulatory mandates.

As more application traffic moves over the web, sensitive customer data is exposed to new security vulnerabilities and attacks, especially at the application layer. F5 BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM) is an advanced web application firewall that significantly reduces and mitigates the risk of loss or damage to data, intellectual property, and web applications. BIG-IP ASM provides end-to-end application protection, advanced monitoring, and centralized reporting, and it addresses key regulatory mandates.

F5 delivers the BIG-IP 8400 platform, featuring best-in-market throughput at an astounding 10 Gbps.

The Fastest 10 Gbps Application Delivery Platform Available

F5’s Application Delivery Networking products feature groundbreaking, next generation platforms that provide unmatched power to dramatically improve Layer 4-7 traffi c throughput, administrative ease of use, and provide more application aware traffic management.

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.

BIG-IP® Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM) provides a more intelligent way to respond to DNS queries than simple load balancing among multiple data centers. BIG‑IP GTM distributes end-user application requests based on business policies, data center conditions, network conditions, and application performance. This gives you holistic control of your global traffic to ensure high availability and maximum performance for applications running across multiple dispersed data centers. The result is better application performance, less downtime, and simplified management.

BIG-IP® Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM) provides a more intelligent way to respond to DNS queries than simple load balancing among multiple data centers. BIG‑IP GTM distributes end-user application requests based on business policies, data center conditions, network conditions, and application performance. This gives you holistic control of your global traffic to ensure high availability and maximum performance for applications running across multiple dispersed data centers. The result is better application performance, less downtime, and simplified management.

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 the use of the Internet to deliver organizations’ applications increases, maintaining only one link to the public network exposes a single point of failure and serious network vulnerability. BIG-IP® Link Controller™ seamlessly monitors availability and performance of multiple WAN ISP connections to intelligently manage bi-directional traffic flows, providing fault tolerant and optimized Internet access.

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.

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.

The BIG-IP Message Security Module (MSM) is the industry’s first reputationbased network edge security module. Leveraging reputation data from Secure Computing’s TrustedSource™ multi-identity reputation engine, MSM extends protection for enterprise message applications to the edge of the corporate network – providing businesses with a more powerful and efficient tool for dealing with the growing volume of unwanted email.

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.

BIG-IP® Secure Access Manager™ (SAM) is a high-performance, flexible security platform, providing a unified secure access solution on a single appliance. Using SSL tunneling for encrypted traffic, BIG-IP Secure Access Manager provides policy-based, secure access to enterprise applications for any client user—from employees, contractors, partners, and suppliers to any corporate resource.BIG‑IP Secure Access Manager provides end-to-end data protection for secured web application client connectivity to enterprise applications.

BIG-IP® Application Delivery Networking platforms can manage even the heaviest traffic loads at both layer 4 and layer 7. By merging high performance switching fabric, specialized hardware, and advanced software, F5 provides the flexibility to make in-depth application decisions without introducing bottlenecks.

BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module (WOM) overcomes network and application issues on the WAN to ensure that all your users get the application availability and performance they need to stay productive. These services are integrated directly on your F5 BIG‑IP device and include superior compression, encryption, and traffic control capabilities that dramatically reduce your bandwidth usage and enable you to improve quality of service for the critical applications that drive your business.

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 new hardware. Users get fast access to applications, and you gain greater ability to focus IT resources on projects that drive your organization’s business objectives.

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 new hardware. Users get fast access to applications, and you gain greater ability to focus IT resources on projects that drive your organization’s business objectives.

BIG-IP WOM is built natively on the F5 TMOS unified architecture, integrating application delivery with WAN optimization technologies. This enables traditional acceleration technologies like SSL offloading, compression, caching, and traffic prioritizing to combine with optimization technologies like symmetric adaptive compression and application quality of service, reducing complexity in your data center. In addition, this integration enables BIG‑IP WOM to make full use of the F5 iControl API and F5 iRules scripting language capabilities, giving you unprecedented flexibility and control in scaling, managing, and optimizing your BIG‑IP system.

VIPRION® is a single, powerful Application Delivery Controller (ADC) with modular performance blades you can add or remove with no disruption to your applications. Instead of adding more devices in the network and segmenting applications, you can simply add more power to your existing infrastructure as needs arise. VIPRION gives you the scalability you need to establish a solid and sustainable ADN growth strategy.

F5^® ARX^® devices enable you to break free from these constraints by introducing intelligent file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure—eliminating the disruption associated with storage administration and automating many storage management tasks. The result is a dramatic improvement in cost, agility, and business efficiency.

F5 ARX® file virtualization devices enable you to dramatically simplify data management and reduce storage costs. By introducing intelligent file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure, ARX eliminates the disruption associated with storage administration and automates many storage management tasks. The result is a dramatic improvement in cost, agility, and business efficiency.

F5 Data Manager simplifies file virtualization deployments and helps you monitor multiple file storage resources through a centralized and extensible storage management platform. With a detailed understanding of your unique file storage structure, you can identify and optimize data management policies to create a more efficient and cost-effective storage infrastructure.

This is an excerpt of a file system inventory recently performed for a mid-size technology company using F5® Data Manager software. All identifiable customer information has been removed.

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.

WANJet 500 is positioned in symmetric implementations for data center to data center optimizations and features fault tolerance and scalability for up to 20,000 optimized connections. WANJet solutions work seamlessly across all wide-area networks including dedicated links, IP VPNs, frame relay, and even satellite connections.

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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.