Intelligent application traffic management

More Than Load Balancing

F5 ADSP unifies application delivery and security, with BIG-IP LTM enabling seamless traffic management and optimization across hybrid and multicloud environments. Leveraging intelligent orchestration and centralized control, BIG-IP LTM empowers users with unmatched application performance, reliability, and scalability.

Maintain application availability

BIG-IP LTM software keeps apps available through all kinds of traffic demands to ensure that your users have access to the apps they need anytime. By using both static and dynamic load balancing to eliminate single points of failure, BIG-IP LTM can help your org maintain app high availability and reliability through any scenario.

Load Balancing - Distribute application load across multiple servers and clouds to increase availability.
Traffic Steering - Direct a particular type of traffic to resources designed to handle that type of workload.
Health Monitoring - Verify health and performance to check the status of applications and resources.

Maintain application availability

BIG-IP LTM software keeps apps available through all kinds of traffic demands to ensure that your users have access to the apps they need anytime. By using both static and dynamic load balancing to eliminate single points of failure, BIG-IP LTM can help your org maintain app high availability and reliability through any scenario.

Load Balancing - Distribute application load across multiple servers and clouds to increase availability.
Traffic Steering - Direct a particular type of traffic to resources designed to handle that type of workload.
Health Monitoring - Verify health and performance to check the status of applications and resources.

Improve your end user experience

No one likes a slow, unreliable application. BIG-IP LTM scales dramatically to meet traffic demands, improving load times and user experience. It also makes real-time protocol and traffic-management decisions based on application and server conditions and puts control in your hands with rule customization and programmability.

TCP Optimization - Enable state-of-the-art optimization to dramatically improve mobile performance.
Caching - Offload repetitive traffic from application servers to improve performance and scale.
Emerging Protocols - Provide load-balancing support for IoT clients through the MQTT protocol.

Secure your customers’ data

BIG-IP LTM delivers industry-leading SSL performance and visibility for inbound and outbound traffic, decrypting and encrypting everything from client to server to protect your entire user experience. With the ability to leverage Post-Quantum Cryptography readiness, it ensures future-proof encryption against evolving threats. Additionally, LTM defends against DDoS attacks and integrates with ICAP services for data loss prevention and virus protection.

Data Protection - Encrypt traffic with a choice of cipher suites based on policy, compliance, or mobile needs.
Perfect Forward Secrecy - Protect customer privacy from future decryption with a unique key for each session.
Key Protection - Protect and manage keys with hardware security modules for physical, virtual, and multi-cloud.
Post-Quantum Cryptographic Readiness - Future-proof critical applications with client-side and server-side cryptography that defends against quantum-era attacks. Learn more.

Secure your customers data

Secure your customers’ data

BIG-IP LTM delivers industry-leading SSL performance and visibility for inbound and outbound traffic, decrypting and encrypting everything from client to server to protect your entire user experience. With the ability to leverage Post-Quantum Cryptography readiness, it ensures future-proof encryption against evolving threats. Additionally, LTM defends against DDoS attacks and integrates with ICAP services for data loss prevention and virus protection.

Data Protection - Encrypt traffic with a choice of cipher suites based on policy, compliance, or mobile needs.
Perfect Forward Secrecy - Protect customer privacy from future decryption with a unique key for each session.
Key Protection - Protect and manage keys with hardware security modules for physical, virtual, and multi-cloud.
Post-Quantum Cryptographic Readiness - Future-proof critical applications with client-side and server-side cryptography that defends against quantum-era attacks.

Real time operational intelligence

You want to know how your applications and network are performing for users at all times. BIG-IP LTM puts data logging and analysis, real-time application health monitoring, and detailed F5 Analytics at your fingertips to help you maintain and improve application performance.

F5 Analytics - Provides detailed monitoring for applications to analyze and improve performance.
High Speed Logging - Processes and sends the log messages to remote high-speed log servers for reporting.
Detailed Analysis - Export data streams to third-party analytics for detailed search and issue resolution.

Optimize AI data processing costs

Revolutionize your AI network traffic management with the powerful traffic management capabilities of BIG-IP LTM, designed to reduce costs, boost performance, and enhance security protection. Scale to meet the demands of rapidly increasing traffic throughput necessary to train complex AI models. Learn more about how F5 helps realize an AI-driven digital world here.

Reduce Network Traffic Costs - Process data on-premises to cut network traffic costs and minimize dependency on expensive, unpredictable cloud bandwidth.
Boost Data Processing Performance - Use F5’s advanced traffic management capabilities to accelerate data processing speeds crucial for efficient AI training.
Enhanced Data Security - Retain sensitive training data within your organization’s perimeter, enhancing security and compliance with regulatory standards.

Optimize AI data processing costs

Revolutionize your AI network traffic management with the powerful traffic management capabilities of BIG-IP LTM, designed to reduce costs, boost performance, and enhance security protection. Scale to meet the demands of rapidly increasing traffic throughput necessary to train complex AI models. Learn more about how F5 helps realize an AI-driven digital world here.

Reduce Network Traffic Costs - Process data on-premises to cut network traffic costs and minimize dependency on expensive, unpredictable cloud bandwidth.
Boost Data Processing Performance - Use F5’s advanced traffic management capabilities to accelerate data processing speeds crucial for efficient AI training.
Enhanced Data Security - Retain sensitive training data within your organization’s perimeter, enhancing security and compliance with regulatory standards.

Product Overview

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager sits between clients and hosts, managing traffic into and out of a data center by way of a pre-configured virtual server that points to a cluster. This gives control over network traffic; selecting the best host destination based on server performance, security, and availability. LTM can be deployed across the range of F5 Appliances running BIG-IP Software.

Hardware

Both the F5 rSeries family of appliances and the VELOS chassis are purpose-built, powerful hardware that F5 BIG-IP software runs on.

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Virtual Editions

BIG-IP VEs have the same features as those that run on F5 hardware—and you can deploy them on any hypervisor or select cloud provider.

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Core Capabilities

SSL acceleration

Offloads SSL encryption from data center servers and frees resources to boost app performance.

Real-time analytics

See response time and traffic surges. Quickly get to the source of app performance issues.

Full elasticity

Provides clustering, virtualization, and on-demand scaling.

Strong security

Detects DDoS attacks and mitigates over 100 vectors to keep apps online.

Availability

Maintain application availability by influencing traffic in real-time and understanding applications, protocols, and networks.

Full proxy visibility

Inspect, manage and report on all app traffic entering and exiting your network, giving you granular control over traffic flows.

Platform Support and Integrations

Technology Alliances
Container Ingress Services

Technology Alliances

F5 application services integrate with major cloud providers and are available directly through marketplace offerings with variable PAYG or perpetual BYOL consumption options.

Container Ingress Services

F5 Container Ingress Services (CIS) integrates with container orchestration environments to dynamically create L4/L7 services on F5 platforms with BIG-IP software, and load balance network traffic across the services.

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