BIG-IP Virtual Edition

Advanced Application Services for Any Cloud Environment

Intelligent local and global traffic management: BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS

Ensure your apps are fast, available and secure with local and global server load balancing, performance optimization, cryptooffload and granular traffic visibility.

Intelligent Traffic Management - From basic load balancing to complex traffic management decisions, BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS deliver granular control over application traffic.
Programmability - Gain complete programmatic control over app traffic with iRules, allowing you to implement security rules, fix app-related errors in real-time, and much more.
Blazing Fast SSL - Cost-effectively protect your user experience by encrypting everything from client to server with BIG-IP’s high-performance cryptoprocessing capabilities.

Intelligent local and global traffic management - BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS

Advanced application and API protection: Advanced WAF

Advanced WAF redefines application security to address the most prevalent threats facing organizations today, including automated bot attacks that overwhelm existing security solutions, web attacks that steal credentials and gain unauthorized access to user accounts, and app-layer attacks that evade static security based on reputation and manual signatures.

Proactive Bot Defense - Protect apps from automated attacks from bots and other malicious tools.
App-layer (L7) DoS - Leverage behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect and mitigate L7 DoS attacks before they impact your apps.
API Protection - Provide comprehensive protection for REST/JSON, XML, and GWT APIs.

Secure and unified application access: BIG-IP APM

BIG-IP APM is a secure, flexible, high-performance access management proxy solution managing global access to your network, the cloud, apps, and APIs.

Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) - Deploy zero-trust model validation based on granular context to secure every app request.
Identity Federation, MFA and SSO - Federate identity, drive adaptive multi-factor authentication (supporting FIDO U2F and RADIUS protocols), and enable single sign-on to simplify app access.
Secure Remote and Mobile Access - Unify identity for remote access via SSL VPN with a secure and adaptive per-app VPN.

Secure and unified application access - BIG-IP APM

Infrastructure and DDoS protection: BIG-IP AFM

BIG-IP AFM is a high-performance, full-proxy network security solution designed to protect networks and data centers from aggressive DDoS and protocol attacks before they overwhelm and degrade services.

Network protection - Identify and mitigate network, protocol, and DNS threats before they reach critical resources.
DDoS mitigation - Thwart volumetric DDoS attacks before they impact users’ ability to interact with applications.
High-volume logging controls - Support SNMP, SIP, DNS and IPFIX collectors while protecting log servers from being overwhelmed.

Product Overview

BIG-IP VE is the most performant, trusted and widely supported vADC available on the market.

BIG-IP Virtual Edition is the industry’s most scalable virtual application delivery controller, facilitating high-performance application delivery and security processing across all leading hypervisors and cloud platforms. BIG-IP VE supports the same market-leading app services suite as physical BIG-IP appliances, enabling configurations and policies to be replicated, reused, and centrally managed anywhere within your multi-cloud ecosystem.

Public Cloud

Deploy VE on all leading public cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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Private Cloud

Deploy VE atop VMware, KVM and Hyper-V hypervisors in your private cloud environment, whether it’s on-premises or in a colocation facility.

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Core Benefits

When you need to move faster than hardware allows, BIG-IP Virtual Editions deliver the app services you need in a more agile and flexible form factor.

Multi-cloud freedom

App services consistency wherever your apps are deployed.

Unrivalled performance

Scale to meet the needs of your most in-demand applications.

Increased business agility

Quickly spin up additional VE instances whenever needed.

Automated deployments

Automate BIG-IP VE deployments in the cloud with F5 Cloud Solution Templates.

Hardware offload integrations

Improve performance for CPU-intensive use cases via hardware offload.

Regulatory compliance

Comply with industry standards such as FIPS 140-2/3 and Common Criteria.

Flexible licensing

Consume via subscription, pay-as-you-go, Flex-Consumption Program (FCP) or perpetual licensing.

Extensive functionality

Utilize the same comprehensive app delivery and security suite as BIG-IP hardware.

Platform Support and Integrations

Supported clouds

Hardware offload integrations via hardward offload

Supported Hardware Security Modules

Supported public and private clouds

BIG-IP VE is supported in more cloud environments than any other vADC on the market, allowing you to take your application services with you wherever you and your apps are going.