NFV Packaged Solutions

Leveraging network functions virtualization (NFV) helps you lower costs, increase operational efficiency, and monetize new services. F5’s prepackaged, preconfigured NFV solutions simplify the deployment and management of your virtualized network.

Leveraging network functions virtualization (NFV) helps you lower costs, increase operational efficiency, and monetize new services. F5’s prepackaged, preconfigured NFV solutions simplify the deployment and management of your virtualized network.


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Consumption based provisioning to simplify purchases and planning

NFV solutions are ordered ready-to-install in 5, 10, and 50 Gbps or in 250k, 500k, or 2m query-per-second (QPS) increments. This consumption-based model greatly simplifies network planning, sizing, and purchasing, and allows you to provision based on outcomes rather than instance licenses. Our use-before-buy model helps you reduce overprovisioning, efficiently move capacity from one datacenter to another, and quickly spin up, spin down, or add new resources.


Consumption based provisioning to simplify purchases and planning
NFV solutions to lower costs, optimize performance, speed time to market

NFV solutions to lower costs, optimize performance, speed time to market

F5 offers five rich, fully featured and lightweight NFV solutions— F5 Gi-LAN VNF Service , F5 Gi Firewall VNF Service, F5 DNS VNF Service, F5 DNS Security VNF Service, and F5 CGNAT VNF Service. These critical features can be deployed quickly and flexibly where and when required.

Consolidated virtualized N6 / S/Gi-LAN solution

VNFs and CNFs can be consolidated in the S/Gi-LAN or the N6 LAN in 5G networks. A consolidated approach results in simpler management and operation, reduced operational costs, and more opportunities to monetize functions and services. Functions can include DNS, Edge Firewall, DDoS, CGNAT, Policy Enforcer and more.

  • Reduced CapEx and OpEx Costs - Up to 60% TCO Savings through reduced VMs and single-hop design.
  • Simplified Architecture - Easier to deploy, manage maintain and scale.
  • Increased Services Velocity - Easier to add and roll out new services.
N6 / S/Gi-LAN solution
VNF Manager provides automated, full lifecycle management

VNF Manager provides automated, full lifecycle management

F5 VNF Manager (VNFM) controls the lifecycle of your VNFs by spinning them up or down as needed or moving VNFs to different locations. It automates deployment, drives configuration, and manages autoscaling, updates, and upgrades. It is TOSCA-based, ONAP-aligned, and interfaces with northbound orchestration.


Product Overview

Diagram illustrating NFV Packaged Solutions

Physical, VNF, or CNF services enabled by the consolidated S/Gi-LAN / N6 LAN

Deployment and management of individual VNFs has proven to be a significant challenge for Service Providers. To solve this problem, F5 has developed a set of unique prepackaged, preconfigured NFV solutions that simplify your virtualized network. These ready-to-install solutions automatically unpack and self-configure, saving time and ensuring application performance out of the box. The solutions include the F5 Virtualized Network Functions Manager (VNFM) which delivers fully automated, end-to-end lifecycle management from service instantiation to auto-scaling and decommissioning.

BIG-IP Gi-LAN VNF

Includes Firewall, CGNAT and traffic management tools such as traffic classification and subscriber awareness.

BIG-IP Gi Firewall VNF

Firewall, DDoS and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) technology based on F5’s highly successful Advanced Firewall Manager.

BIG-IP DNS and DNS Security VNF

Includes L4 and L7 DNS Security and DNS caching and resolving functions, which can reduce DNS latency up to 80%.

BIG-IP CGNAT VNF

Ease IPv6 migration and improve network scalability and security with IPv4 address management.

Core Capabilities

Use before you buy
Simplify purchases and reduce the need for overprovisioning with the use-before-you-buy option.
Broad portfolio of services
Choose from physical, VNFs, or CNFs.
Reduce costs
Switch to lower OpEx and CapEx cost software.
Increase service velocity
Provision new services in hours, not weeks.
Increase scalability and flexibility
Provision new services as you need them and scale up or down as required.
Deliver best-of-breed functionality
F5 VNFs easily integrate into your environment.
Optimize management and orchestration
F5 VNF Manager allows you to manage the lifecycle and orchestration your VNFs.

Platform Support and Integrations

Technology Alliances

Service providers are using OpenStack in Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) environments to increase agility.

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Videos and webinars

The Evolution From NFV Planning to Reliable Service Models ›

Automation and Virtualized Infrastructures ›

Self-Configuring NFV Packaged Solutions for Fast and Flexible Deployment ›

Solution areas and tech alliances

BIG-IP Virtual Edition ›

OpenStack ›

Overviews and white papers

F5 and Mellanox Enable High Performance VNFs for Virtualized and 5G Networks ›

BIG-IP VE Performance Improvements with Intel QAT for Encryption and Decryption ›

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