Enterprise AI delivery and security solutions

The future is powered by connected and distributed AI models. F5 empowers enterprises to scale, connect, and secure AI workflows, optimizing performance and unlocking the full potential of AI.

AI applications require unmatched performance and security. F5 delivers.

Modern AI applications push the boundaries of complexity and innovation. With decades of expertise in application delivery and security, F5 ensures AI workflows operate flawlessly, scale seamlessly, and remain resilient against evolving threats.

The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform empowers organizations to optimize AI ecosystems and drive scalable, profitable transformation.

AI is driving fundamental change

96%

of organizations are deploying AI models1

73%

of enterprises would like AI to optimize app performance 1

96%

of companies worry about AI model security 1

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Ensure secure, high-performance data ingestion for AI model training with F5 BIG-IP and NGINX. Protect data flows, enforce policy-based controls, and eliminate bottlenecks, enabling seamless delivery of massive datasets while safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining efficient AI training timelines.

Deliver AI data at scale ›

AI Application and Data Delivery

Maximize GPU cluster efficiency with load balancing and security powered by F5 BIG-IP on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs. Streamline AI workload delivery, reduce latency, and optimize resource usage to ensure GPUs remain fully utilized for faster, more cost-effective AI operations.

Scale your AI infrastructure ›

Protect AI applications, APIs, and models with F5 WAAP and AI Gateway. Prevent abuse, data leakage, and attacks like prompt injection, while ensuring full visibility and control over how AI models and applications interact across environments.

Protect your AI applications ›

AI Application and Data Delivery

Secure and connect AI data sources and applications with F5 Distributed Cloud Services. Enable safe, efficient data movement across distributed environments, connecting enterprise data stores with inference workflows while maintaining compliance and operational performance.

Connect distributed AI workloads ›

With our partners, F5 simplifies and secures AI application ecosystems.

F5 collaborates with the world’s leading AI innovators to form industry-leading technology alliance partnerships. Together, we provide integrated, secure, and streamlined solutions to support complex AI application ecosystems.

Unleash high-performance networking and security to scale your most ambitious AI projects

Explore the F5 AI Reference Architecture to discover best practices for enabling secure, reliable, and performant AI infrastructure across your hybrid and multicloud environments. See how F5 solutions support everything from data ingestion for model training and inference to optimized AI networking. Keep data moving at line rate and scale traffic seamlessly for consistent, cost-efficient performance end-to-end.

AI Reference Architecture

The F5 AI Reference Architecture showcases strategic traffic management and critical security points across the entire AI pipeline—from the web and API front door to data ingest, cluster ingress, LLMs, model inference, RAG workflows, data storage, and training—ensuring fast, reliable, and secure operations at every stage.

ai reference architecture ai data delivery

High-performant and secure data ingestion is critical for AI model training at scale. F5 BIG-IP and NGINX protect data flows as massive datasets move from endpoints to storage environments into training pipelines—running on Kubernetes – ensuring both high throughput and robust security.

AI reference architecture ai factory load balancing

Ensure every GPU in an AI Factory is utilized to its full potential, with none standing idle. By offloading traffic management and security to DPU hardware, F5 BIG-IP for Kubernetes on NVIDIA DPUs streamlines the delivery of AI workloads going to and from GPU clusters, maximizing the efficiency of your AI infrastructure.

ai reference architecture ai runtime security

AI-driven applications rely on a robust and secure runtime environment to protect against model abuse, data leakage and traditional attacks. F5 secures AI applications end-to-end with WAAP, protecting the APIs that support RAG and agentic workflows from abuse. F5 AI Gateway delivers protection at the model layer—providing data leakage detection and prevention, secure model routing, and prompt injection protection.

AI reference architecture AI multicloud networking

AI multicloud networking lets you simplify AI/ML infrastructure, securely connecting applications and enhancing AI model contextual awareness in hybrid and multicloud environments. Designed to optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and distributed inference workflows, F5 enables enterprises to deploy reliable, secure, and scalable AI solutions with ease.

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