Application traffic management for fast, available apps

Customers and employees expect fast, uninterrupted access to applications, wherever they are. Load balancing, security, performance, and management services all play into meeting those expectations.

TODAY’S APPS REQUIRE MORE SOPHISTICATED SERVICES

Load balancing

LOAD BALANCING

Get sophisticated, enterprise-class load balancing that includes granular layer 7 control, SSL offloading and acceleration, and  on-demand scaling.

Performance

PERFORMANCE

Improve performance and availability of global apps by sending users to the closest or best-performing physical, virtual, or cloud environment. 

Availability

AVAILABILITY

Accelerate application response time, minimize latency and delays, and reduce the number of data round trips necessary to complete a web request.

SPIN UP SERVICES WITH LESS RESISTANCE

IT’S TIME FOR A NEW APP DELIVERY INFRASTRUCTURE

You’re managing hundreds—even thousands—of applications, including emerging ones that are updated often. They’re delivered from hybrid environments, including on-premises data centers, private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS. As a result, you could be relying on application delivery methods that work in opposition.

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BALANCE APPLICATION SPEED AND SECURITY

Your application landscape, whatever it looks like, requires the right services. With a unified application delivery architecture, you can provide optimal security, performance, and availability services to each one of your applications—wherever and however they’re deployed.

Key architecture components

APPLICATION SERVICES

Deploy advanced application services such as DDoS protection, WAF, DNS, TCP optimization, and global server load balancing to keep applications secure, fast, and always available.

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SERVICE DELIVERY PLATFORMS

Combine the right mix of hardware, software, lightweight proxies, or a cloud-based application services platform for your hybrid environment.

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SERVICE TEMPLATES

Save time, ensure consistent deployments, and reduce the operational risk of manual deployments by codifying standard configuration elements for a particular service.

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PLATFORM MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Trim administration overhead by providing tools to manage, monitor, and upgrade Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs).

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CONTAINER INTEGRATIONS

Integrate F5 application services with your container environments for increased availability, automation, security, and visibility.

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