Application delivery and traffic management solutions
Simplify hybrid multicloud application delivery with modern ADC capabilities that keep applications fast, resilient, and scalable anywhere.
Simplify hybrid multicloud application delivery with modern ADC capabilities that keep applications fast, resilient, and scalable anywhere.
F5’s application delivery and traffic management solutions delivers fast, secure digital experiences across hybrid and multicloud environments—without rearchitecting or stitching point tools together. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) unifies high-performance traffic management, consistent policy enforcement, and deep visibility across hardware, software, SaaS, and cloud-native environments, enabling NetOps and Platform teams to scale apps and APIs while reducing risk and complexity.
Eliminate tool sprawl and policy gaps with unified app delivery and observability across cloud, data center, and edge.
Maximize app performance with intelligent traffic steering, local and global load balancing, and monitoring at scale.
Deploy app services anywhere—on premises, across multicoud, or at the edge—with consistent app delivery.
Maintain continuous availability with real-time insights and resilient architectures built for spikes and disruptions.
Hybrid and multicloud architectures drive scale—but fragmented tools and inconsistent policies slow teams down. Operational complexity limits visibility, performance, and business agility.
F5 simplifies distributed environments with hardware and software load balancing plus SaaS deployment flexibility delivering unified traffic management, consistent policy enforcement, and end-to-end visibility across on-premises, cloud, and edge.
Reduce complexity, improve performance, and scale apps with confidence.
Routes AI data to the best location based on performance, latency, system health, and policy.
Manage and secure API traffic in modern environments with NGINX tooling
Balances AI workloads across clusters to make better use of resources and deliver fast, consistent performance.
Routes app traffic based on health, latency, and logic.
Intelligently delivers edge content for global app acceleration.
Optimizes, scales, and secures modern apps, Kubernetes clusters, APIs, and AI inference.
Hybrid and multicloud offer scale—however, hyperscaler concentration increases systemic risk. Outages are inevitable, and recovery-first strategies aren’t enough.
Organizations need architectures built to absorb failure, limit blast radius, and adapt in real time. F5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), powered by F5 Distributed Cloud Services, provides a neutral, provider-agnostic control layer for resilient traffic management.
Strengthen uptime, meet regulatory demands, and maintain strategic flexibility across any environment
Routes AI data to the best location based on performance, latency, system health, and policy.
Manage and secure API traffic in modern environments with NGINX tooling
Balances AI workloads across clusters to make better use of resources and deliver fast, consistent performance.
Routes app traffic based on health, latency, and logic.
Proactively monitors application performance and uptime.
Traffic bottlenecks and blocking issues often go unseen in distributed environments—until performance and availability suffer. Limited observability leads to hotspots, hairpinning, and poor user experience.
The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) delivers real-time traffic visibility, advanced telemetry, and actionable flow insights.
Detect issues faster, optimize traffic management, eliminate performance gaps, and ensure resilient, high-performing digital experiences while reducing operational costs.
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Provides app-centric, actionable insights into BIG-IP traffic and policies.
Monitors multi-cloud app health and end-to-end visibility.
Optimizes, scales, and secures modern apps, Kubernetes clusters, APIs, and AI inference.
Monitor and reduce client-side risk from third-party and injected scripts
Proactively monitors application performance and uptime.
App migrations—cloud to cloud, on-prem to cloud, or back—are complex, high-risk, and time-sensitive.
Teams must maintain performance, security, and uptime while managing cost and operational constraints.
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect accelerates migration with seamless load balancing between environments, real-time observability, and centralized policy enforcement.
Redirect traffic without IP conflicts, maintain availability, and simplify security to achieve faster time-to-value with less risk.
Provides service connectivity and load balancing across multicloud.
Securely extends networks across cloud, on-prem, and edge.
Monitors multi-cloud app health and end-to-end visibility.
As organizations expand across hybrid and multicloud, digital sovereignty shapes where apps run, data resides, and control is enforced. Regulations vary by region and workload, requiring flexible deployment models.
F5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) unifies sovereignty-aware SaaS services with locally managed BIG-IP and NGINX deployments for sensitive workloads.
Control traffic processing, data residency, and operations while maintaining consistent security, performance, and visibility across cloud, data center, and edge.
Balances AI workloads across clusters to make better use of resources and deliver fast, consistent performance.
Manage and secure API traffic in modern environments with NGINX tooling
Optimizes, scales, and secures modern apps, Kubernetes clusters, APIs, and AI inference.
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
A traditional load balancer focuses on distributing traffic across servers using basic algorithms (round-robin, least connections) at Layer 4 or limited Layer 7. A modern application delivery controller (ADC) extends far beyond this by combining traffic management with security, observability, and programmability.
Modern ADCs provide TLS termination, intelligent Layer 7 routing, API awareness, automated health checks, DDoS protection, deep telemetry, and programmability for custom traffic-handling policies. They also operate consistently across hardware, software, cloud-native, and SaaS deployments—enabling unified policy and control in hybrid multicloud environments.
A reverse proxy sits in front of applications, terminates client connections, and serves as the single-entry point for requests. While a load balancer distributes traffic across multiple backend servers, a reverse proxy focuses on application-layer functions such as TLS offload, header manipulation, authentication, caching, and security inspection. Modern ADC platforms often combine both functions: they act as reverse proxies while also performing advanced load balancing, intelligent traffic steering, and policy enforcement across local and global environments.
Application delivery platforms reduce latency by steering traffic to the optimal location based on proximity, health, and real-time performance.
For AI workloads, this includes routing inference requests to the nearest GPU or data source, optimizing TCP and TLS handling, and minimizing cross-region data movement. Global and local load balancing, connection reuse, and observability-driven routing help ensure data is delivered efficiently across hybrid multicloud environments, improving GPU usage and end-user response times.
Preventing crashes requires architectures designed to absorb and adapt to sudden demand. Multicloud load balancing distributes traffic across regions, clouds, or data centers based on capacity and health, rather than relying on a single environment.
Modern ADC platforms provide automatic failover, real-time health monitoring, rate limiting, and traffic shaping to protect backend services. Geolocation-aware traffic steering minimizes latency globally, while integrated security features can protect backend services from malicious spikes. This approach limits the blast radius during spikes, maintains availability, and ensures applications degrade gracefully instead of suddenly failing.
Highly regulated industries require consistent policy enforcement, strong encryption, and precise control over where traffic is processed and data resides. The best solutions support hybrid multicloud deployments with local control planes for sensitive workloads and centralized visibility across environments.
Modern ADC platforms enable application-level routing, TLS inspection, authentication, and observability ensuring data never traverses unmanaged third-party networks. These capabilities help organizations maintain compliance with frameworks like PCI DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA, while meeting sovereignty and resiliency requirements.
No. Modern application delivery does not require forcing all traffic through a third-party network. Leading ADC platforms support flexible deployment models, including on-premises, cloud-native, SaaS, and hybrid approaches.
Organizations can choose where traffic is processed based on performance, security, and regulatory needs, while still maintaining consistent policies, automation, and visibility across environments. This avoids unnecessary latency, data exposure, and vendor lock-in.
