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F5 BIG-IP

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  • Service
Provider
  • F5 Networks

Overview

The BIG-IP® Virtual Edition (VE) is the industry-leading application delivery and security services solution, built to ensure optimal performance, availability, and security of your business-critical applications on the IBM Cloud infrastructure.
BIG-IP VEs provide intelligent L4-L7 load balancing and traffic management services at a local and global scale, robust network and web application firewall protection, and secure and federated application access.
The following licensing options are available for BIG-IP VEs:
Good: This offer leverages the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) VE, operating as a full-proxy architecture, to provide intelligent local traffic management, complete SSL traffic visibility, and analytics and health monitoring to ensure application servers are always available to your users.
Better: This offer is built on the benefits of the Good option, with the addition of BIG-IP DNS™, BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager™ (AFM), and BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager™ (AAM) modules. It delivers global traffic management services, application performance optimization, and advanced network firewall and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation capabilities.
Best: In addition to the Good and Better offers, BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ (ASM) provides comprehensive application protection against L7 DDoS, Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top 10 threats and common application vulnerabilities. BIG-IP Access Policy Manager™ (APM) offers users secure, simplified access to applications located anywhere within a multi-cloud environment, incorporating features such as SSO (Single Sign-On) and MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication).