F5 Perpetual Licensing
License application services through our Good, Better, Best product bundles.
Maximize the Value of Your Application Delivery Investment
We make getting the right application delivery capabilities simpler, more flexible, and more affordable for your business. Our product bundles let you choose from available modules, with standardized images and fewer configurations. Plus, you can save up to 65% over buying the modules as individual components.
Choose the Right Fit
Get advanced traffic management, optimization, and security services on one BIG-IP platform. And with our Good, Better, and Best options, you can find the right fit to address your business challenges.
Good
Intelligent local traffic management for increased operational and peak network performance of applications.
Better
The capabilities of Good, along with advanced application delivery optimization.
Best
The capabilities of Better, plus advanced access management and total application security.
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- Load balancing and monitoring
- Application visibility and monitoring
- L7 intelligent traffic management
- Core protocol optimization (HTTP, TCP, SPDY, SSL)
- SSL proxy and services
- IPv6 support
- Programmability (iRules, iCall, iControl, iApps)
Software services
- Advanced routing (BGP, RIP, OSPF, ISIS, BFD)
- High performance ICSA firewall
- Network DDoS protection
- Application-centric firewall policies
- Protocol anomaly detection
- Global server load balancing
- DNS services
- Real time DNSSEC solution
- Global application high availability
- Geolocation
- DNS DDoS attack prevention
- Application-layer attacks
- Web app and API attacks
- Security automation for DevOps
- Targeted attack campaigns
- Automated attacks and bots
- Credential theft
- 500 concurrent user sessions; scalable up to 200,000
- BYOD enablement
- Full proxy for VDI (Citrix, VMware)
- Single sign-on enhancements (Identity federation with SAML 2.0)
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Packaged NFV Solutions for Service Providers
Platforms
Each of our product bundles are available for BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VEs), BIG-IP hardware, or hybrid environments that combine both physical and BIG-IP VE systems.
Supported Environments
- Virtual
- On-premises
- Hybrid
Purchasing
Good, Better, and Best bundles are available as either a VE subscription or through a VE Enterprise License Agreement (ELA). Both options cover your application in public, private, or multi-cloud environments. Self-license any number of virtual instances, in any capacity, at any time.
Packaged NFV Solutions for Service Providers
These integrated solution packages for service providers combine F5’s leading VEs (VNFs) with automated lifecycle management in a capacity-based consumption model.
Available For:
- BIG-IP Gi LAN VNF Service Layer
- BIG-IP Gi Firewall VNF Service Layer