The F5 Distributed Cloud Services Software as a Service (SaaS) solution provides a horizontal platform to overcome the complexities of 5G network deployment and operating applications and services across multiple cloud—from the core to the far-edge and into the enterprise edge. Service providers gain a faster time-to-service to start monetizing their investments while delivering on the promise of 5G.
SaaS-based deployment and lifecycle management of infrastructure software allows customers to focus on application software development.
Protect the fleet of edge infrastructure and apps from Internet vulnerabilities and physical tampering to reduce downtime. Secured connectivity across cloud and edge enables improved productivity for DevOps and SRE.
SaaS-based delivery of platform services, coupled with a high-performance global network, significantly reduces the cost of deployment, operations, and application downtime at the edge.
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The SaaS solution, F5 Distributed Cloud Mesh, provides networking and security services. The Distributed Cloud Mesh Kubernetes gateway enables Kubernetes clusters to span across multiple different clouds, and over a wide area network.
Distributed Cloud Mesh consolidates the complex security, API gateway, load balancing and routing features provided by appliance-based functions to enable a seamless multi-cloud integration. The service also provides a consolidated toolset, moving away from a siloed, legacy toolset environment.
By leveraging Distributed Cloud Mesh consolidated services, operations teams can deliver up to a 12x improvement in time-to-service.

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