F5 VELOS Chassis System

F5 VELOS is a secure, high-performance Application Delivery Controller chassis system that enables organizations to meet the demands of high-growth AI apps and AI network data ingestion with unmatched scalability, flexibility, and resilience.

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High Performance Application Delivery at Scale

Ensure Uninterrupted Availability for Data-Intensive AI Workloads

Scaling to 6Tbps of low latency throughput, F5 VELOS is designed to handle the demands of modern AI workloads, which involve increasingly complex and large volumes of data traffic. VELOS enables secure, resilient, and high-performance load balancing that optimally routes data across Ai systems, ensuring rapid processing, low latency and uninterrupted availability.

Performance for Processor Intensive AI Applications - VELOS supports high performance throughput, backed by hardware offload for intensive processor performance such as encryption, CGNAT and real-time DDoS.
Multi-terabit throughput - VELOS scales to 6Tbps of high-speed throughput for the most demanding high-performance deployments and optimized, hardware assisted data packet routing and low latency for data ingest and real-time data processing needs.
Dynamic Resource Allocation - VELOS dynamically allocates resources based on workload demands, optimizing traffic flow and ensuring AI models receive the data processing they need without excess lag.

Ensure Uninterrupted Availability for Data-Intensive AI Workloads

Deliver Secure Applications and Mitigate Threats

F5 VELOS secures application delivery across environments, protecting against a complex threat landscape while maintaining optimal performance provided by offload to state-of-the-art FPGA’s. With built-in security layers, including BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM), BIG-IP Advanced WAF, SSL/TLS encryption, and bot defense software, VELOS supports seamless delivery of AI data while safeguarding against threats.

Intelligently Manages Encrypted Traffic - VELOS’s advanced FPGA hardware offload and BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator deliver high-performance decryption of inbound and outbound SSL/TLS traffic, enabling security inspection that exposes threats and stops attacks before they happen.
Unmatched DNS Performance - With a feature set that includes multicore scalability, DNS Express, and IP Anycast integration, VELOS with BIG-IP DNS can hyperscale to handle millions of DNS queries and ensure top application performance for users.
Protects Apps, APIs, and Data - VELOS with BIG-IP Advanced WAF protects against the most prevalent attacks such as zero-day vulnerabilities, app-layer DoS attacks, threat campaigns, application takeover, and bots.

Service Provider Solutions for the Data Center and N6/S/Gi-LAN

VELOS scalability and advanced FPGA offload enables high traffic throughput for processor intensive functions critical for service providers. It provides a consolidated N6 / S/Gi-LAN solution which brings together multiple subscriber services including DNS, Firewall, DDoS and CGNAT, TCP, and Video Optimization. This reduces operational costs, simplifying management and reducing service sprawl.

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) subscriber services - FWA is a notable 5G success story – necessitating increased bandwidth and scalability for broadband subscriber services. Supporting 16 x 400 Gbps blades, VELOS enables a high throughput, consolidated solution.
Unmatched Scalability - Delivering an exceptional 6.4B maximum L4 concurrent connections (400M per blade), this is critical for load balancing and resilience and crucial for applications with high traffic or large user bases.
Multi-terabit Security - Hardware-assisted real time DDoS mitigation and native, high-performance firewall security. With 80 million connections per second VELOS provides unsurpassed firewall performance.

Product Overview

Accelerate, Scale, and Secure Modern Workloads

VELOS provides the secure, high-performance foundation organizations need to deliver reliable, scalable, and resilient application experiences. Engineered to manage complex, high-throughput workloads across complex infrastructure environments, VELOS integrates BIG-IP software services to offer robust security, operational flexibility, and advanced traffic management. VELOS empowers organizations to streamline application and network data delivery, safeguard critical data, and optimize performance, adapting to the evolving needs of modern organizations.

On-premises

Scale and protect applications at the data center and edge sites.

Colocation

Deploy your apps and clouds at dedicated interconnection points.

Core Capabilities

Get unmatched performance with improved ROI

Achieve accelerated app performance and lower latency with more FPGAs and ECC ciphers.

Lower your TCO

Simplify and consolidate your existing infrastructure with significantly lower operating costs.

Accomplish more with automation

Reduce deployment time from weeks to minutes with a fully automatable API-first architecture.

Carrier class reliability

Reduce risk with NEBS compliancy and redundant configurations and components

Future proof your infrastructure

Frictionless migration and flexible licensing for the Kubernetes-based hardware of the future.

The VELOS Chassis and Blade Catalog

VELOS is available as a 32-slot CX1610 or an 8- slot CX410 chassis, supporting half-width 400Gbps BX520 and quarter-width 100 Gbps BX110 blades. VELOS now scales to multi-terabit throughput, meeting the highest performance demands of organizations of all sizes.

CX1610 | 32-Slot Chassis

Redefine scale and performance

Purpose-built for massive, data-intensive service provider and enterprise AI environments, the CX1610 sets a new standard for scalability and resilience. Whether you’re a large enterprise running mission-critical AI applications, tackling data-intensive AI workloads, or a service provider scaling to meet the next-generation 5G, broadband, and security demands, this NEBS-compliant chassis offers the robust scalability and security needed to meet tomorrow’s performance demands. Compatible with the BX520 blade.

CX410 | 8-Slot Chassis

Compact reliability for mid-scale environments

Offering carrier-grade performance in a streamlined footprint, the CX410 enables robust traffic management and security without compromising on scalability. Whether supporting regional data centers, edge applications, or service provider services, this NEBS-compliant chassis unifies traffic management, security, and scalability to adapt seamlessly to evolving network needs. Compatible with either the BX520 or BX110 blades.

BX520 | Half-Width Blade

High-performance delivery and ultra-low latency

The BX520 Blade combines ultra-low latency with advanced application delivery to handle complex workflows, analytics, cryptography, AI data ingestion, and subscriber services. Its multi-tenant design and lightning-fast packet processing provide efficient resource utilization, ensuring optimal performance under heavy load for ever-growing user and workload demands. Compatible with both the CX1610 and CX410 Chassis.

BX110 | Quarter-Width Blade

Compact power meets enterprise-grade delivery

Ideal for targeted throughput requirements and low-latency application delivery, the BX110 blade extends VELOS’s advanced capabilities to smaller-scale deployments for the CX410. Its flexible, efficient design optimizes service provider and enterprise workloads alike, enabling rapid, secure, and high-performance processing wherever it’s needed most. Compatible with the CX410 Chassis.

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