BIG-IP Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT)
Stay ahead of the IPv4 to IPv6 migration.
BIG-IP CGNAT and your network.
IPV4 AND IPV6
Migration challenges
IPv4 address allotments have run out everywhere except for Africa. With global IP addresses at their limit, service providers need to make the shift to IPv6. BIG-IP Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT) supports both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses, without costly hardware upgrades. IPv4 packets are encapsulated in an IPv6 tunnel and sent to an external IPv4 destination.
CONSOLIDATE SERVICES ON A UNIFIED PLATFORM.
BIG-IP CGNAT works seamlessly with our other service provider solutions:
LOGGING EFFICIENCIES
Working smarter, saving money
BIG-IP CGNAT supports iPFIX to compress NAT logging, leading to high-speed logging capabilities. It reduces the amount of data per log entry, minimizing overall costs. BIG-IP CGNAT also enables high-speed log generation of individual security events.
CONSOLIDATE SERVICES ON A UNIFIED PLATFORM.
BIG-IP CGNAT works seamlessly with our other service provider solutions:
NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION
The name says it all
NAT functionality includes:
• NAT44 to extend the use of IPv4 addresses.
• NAT 64 to allow IPv6 endpoints to access IPv4 content and destinations.
• DNS64 which uses DNS AAAA records so IPv4 addresses can be seen as IPv6.
CONSOLIDATE SERVICES ON A UNIFIED PLATFORM.
BIG-IP CGNAT works seamlessly with our other service provider solutions:
Performance at scale.
Handle up to 1440 million concurrent sessions with up to 1.12 Tbps throughput at layer 4.
Features
BIG-IP CGNAT helps you manage your network in a variety of ways.
Translation and tunneling
Deploy NAT44, NAT64, XLAT464, DS-Lite, Mapping of Address and Port (MAP), and more.
Interoperability
Enable any service to run on any blade.
Security
Combine it with BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) to protect your network against threats that enter via the most widely deployed protocols.
Visibility
Gain comprehensive connection monitoring across your network.
Service Provider Essentials
Service providers are different. You have some of the biggest and most complex challenges in the communications world today. At F5, we don’t just understand the challenges you face, many of us have lived them ourselves. That’s why we developed the F5 Service Provider Essentials technical services program: to offer a specialized level of support for—and exclusively available to—our SP customers.
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