F5 VIPRION Platform

Incredibly Flexible, Unbelievably Powerful—The Hardware You Need

Maximize app scale and firewall performance

With its industry-leading layer 4–7 throughput, connection processing, and SSL/ECC performance, VIPRION efficiently manages the most demanding applications and consolidates your app delivery. In addition, as an ICSA Labs Certified firewall solution, F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) on VIPRION provides native, high-performance network firewall services, protecting apps from attacks.

Embedded Packet Velocity Acceleration (ePVA) FPGAs - L4 offload, enabling leading hardware throughput rates and reducing loads on software.
Interconnection Scale - High-performance interconnection between Ethernet ports and processors.
High-Performance Attack Protection - Detection and mitigation of more than 100 types of threat vectors.

Maximize app scale and firewall performance

Simplify your network

With VIPRION’s massive performance and scalability, you can reduce the number of application delivery controllers you need to deliver even the most demanding applications. By offloading computationally intense processes, VIPRION significantly reduces the number of application servers you need, saving management costs as well as power, space, and cooling in the data center.

Hardware Acceleration - Offload SSL/elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) ciphers in hardware for fast efficient workloads, saving valuable software computation.
SSL Scale and Performance - Accelerate key exchange and bulk encryption for best-in-market SSL performance, and enhance perfect forward secrecy (PFS) capabilities by faster ECC.
Hardware Compression - Cost effectively offload traffic compression processing from your servers. Improves page load times and reduces bandwidth utilization.

Mitigate DDoS attacks with superior security

F5 uses a collaborative software SYN cache and hardware SYN cookie approach to protect against large-scale SYN flood DDoS attacks. Using the embedded Packet Velocity Acceleration (ePVA) FPGA, select VIPRION platforms provide significantly higher performance (up to 640 million SYN cookies per second) over a pure software implementation.

High-Performance DDoS protection - Enabled through field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology tightly integrated with the F5 TMOS technology and software.
Superior Security in Hardware - Hardware detection and mitigation of more than 100 types of denial-of-service (DoS) and DDoS attacks.
Scale and Mitigate SYN flood attacks - Collaborative software SYN cache and hardware SYN cookie approach to protect against large-scale SYN flood DDoS attacks.

Mitigate DDoS attacks with superior security

Product Overview

Get the agility of DevOps with the scale, security, and investment protection you need for both established and emerging application architectures. VIPRION chassis and blades deliver quick and easy programmability, multi-vendor service orchestration, software-defined hardware, and line-rate performance. Accelerate private clouds and secure critical data, while lowering infrastructure costs.

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

Reduce deployment time

Reduce deployment time with support for major private cloud stacks, including OpenStack, VMware, and Cisco.

Improve development time

Programmatic toolkits leverage customizable app templates, a JavaScript community, and over 250K+ node.js libraries.

Consolidate application services

Reduce cost of ownership by up to 53% compared to other ADC vendors.

Simplify and scale SSL

Supports all major encryption methods, including emerging Forward Secrecy, for the fastest way to achieve A+ Grade SSL rating.

VIPRION Chassis and Blades

The F5 VIPRION platform empowers you to dynamically scale and adapt. Add blades without disrupting your apps or users, extending superior performance without adding devices to meet your requirements.

4000 series

2000 series

VIPRION 4800 chassis

Designed in-house, the 4800 chassis provides consolidation of ADC services with up to 48 vCMP instances. Add up to eight B4450 blades for maximum throughput, L7 RPS, and SSL performance.

VIPRION 4480 chassis

The NEBS-certified 4480 was designed with carrier-grade reliability in mind, with support for industry-first 40GbE and 100Gbe (QSFP28) ports, multi-tenant virtualization support, and the ability to add up to four B4450 blades to its chassis.

VIPRION 4450 blade

The purpose-built, NEBS-compliant VIPRION 4450 blade delivers two 100GbE ports and six 40GbE ports, increasing efficiency, throughput, and performance and providing 100GbE ports in QSFP28 form factor.

Resources

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VIPRION: The On-Demand Application Delivery Controller

Each F5 VIPRION platform is a single, powerful application delivery controller (ADC) with modular performance blades you can add or remove without disrupting users or applications.

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