Solution Guides

See how F5 products can help you solve specific problems in your data center, private and public clouds, or hybrid environments.


Protect Apps and APIs by Securing Infrastructure

Applications are only as secure as the infrastructure on which they run. To bring your digital experiences to life for your customers, it’s critical to protect your network and session protocols as well as cloud-native workloads.

Protect Your Cloudflare CDN Deployment with F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

Cloudflare accelerates anything connected to the internet, making websites, APIs, corporate networks and distributed workforces safer and faster

F5 BIG-IP Platform Privileged User Access Solution

F5's Privileged User Access solution provides strong authentication and security within DoD environments using F5's BIG-IP platform. Learn more in our guide.

Distribute, Optimize, and Secure Your AI Workloads with F5

F5 powers and secures modern AI workloads, ensuring distribution and protection across diverse AI ecosystems with high performance and comprehensive security

Zero Trust in an Application-Centric World

F5 delivers our security offerings to fit your organization’s Zero Trust deployment strategy – self managed, as-a-service, or as a fully managed service.

F5 BIG-IP AFM Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager’s IPS solution protects DNS infrastructure against protocol attacks and exploits that can impact performance.

Implement F5 Bot Defense with ease in Mobile Apps with Promon SDK Integrator

While there are many legitimate uses for bots—customer support chats, search engine crawlers, and any number of single-task automata—these little computer programs are just as often used for more sinister purposes.

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense for Salesforce Commerce Cloud Security

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is available to work behind the scenes to dramatically reduce exposure to automated, fraudulent bot attack traffic, and help ensure the security of your e-commerce related services by removing friction from the user experience.

Integrating the Silverline Managed Services Platform with a Content Delivery Network

Learn how Silverline customers use the F5 Silverline Managed Services Platform with Amazon CloudFront to provide a highly stable and secure application delivery experience.

Ivanti & F5: Secure Multi-Cloud Access in the Zero-Trust Model

Protecting your websites, apps, and APIs from such threats requires multiple layers of security. Shape Security and Okta provide distinct sets of security solutions but are tightly integrated across platforms to support fast and highly secure access for the end user.

Simplifying Centralized Access Configuration for Classic and Custom Applications

BIG-IP APM and Azure Active Directory centralize access management for classic, custom, and modern apps, with new guided configuration to make deployment easy.

Leading Service Provider Delivers Outstanding 5G Network Performance

The combination of high-performance hardware and advanced virtualization software has been the key to unlocking new 5G services for this major Service Provider.

Carrier-Grade NAT for Service Providers

F5 BIG-IP Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT) offers a broad set of high-performance, highly scalable tools that enable service providers to successfully migrate to IPv6 while continuing to support and interoperate with IPv4 devices and content.

Intelligent DNS Firewall for Service Providers

BIG-IP DNS delivers an intelligent and scalable DNS infrastructure that gives mobile users faster access and service response.

S/Gi Firewall for Service Providers

BIG-IP AFM is an ICSA Labs Certified firewall solution, and offers the protection of a full-proxy firewall—it fully terminates and inspects incoming client connections before they ever reach your network.

Virtual IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Network

F5’s virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) provides scalability for SIP services within an IMS architecture.

Virtual Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)

All F5 VNFs can be deployed as a service, including load balancing as a service (LBaaS), firewall as a service (FWaaS), and DNS as a service (DNSaaS).

Virtual Evolved Packet Core (EPC)

Virtualizing the EPC allows you to quickly realize significant TCO savings and get new services to market faster.

Virtual Gi LAN

F5 virtual network functions (VNFs) are a core component within an efficient virtual Gi LAN, providing solutions such as virtual policy enforcement, virtual firewall, and virtual Application Delivery Controller (ADC) services.

Architecting Application Delivery in Integrated Systems

With technology partnerships across many infrastructure and virtualization suppliers, F5 can help you deliver the security, availability, and optimize your applications need.