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BIG-IP Product Suite

Applications running across networks face challenges related to performance, security, and availability, which can impact productivity, opportunities, and a company's reputation.

The BIG-IP product suite comprises a system of application delivery services that operate on the same best-in-class hardware platform or software virtual instance. From load balancing and service offloading to acceleration and security, the BIG-IP system ensures that business applications are fast, secure, and available. Using a shared, flexible architecture, the BIG-IP product suite provides:

Scalable, customized traffic management: The F5 TMOS platform offers intelligent control over application acceleration, security, and availability services.
Total application control: Businesses benefit from unprecedented speed and accuracy in deploying and managing application networking services with F5 iApps.
Flexibility to respond to business changes: Users can start with one function to meet current goals and add modular BIG-IP application delivery services as required.
Scalability within and beyond the data center: F5 ScaleN functionality facilitates the management and scaling of application workloads between isolated environments, such as on-premises and the cloud.

The BIG-IP product suite includes several key components:

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM): An Application Delivery Networking system that provides intelligent traffic management, advanced application security, acceleration, and optimization.
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM): Intelligently directs users to the best-performing data center to ensure high application performance. It also scales DNS infrastructure, mitigates DDoS attacks, and delivers a complete, real-time DNSSEC solution.
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM): Provides flexible, high-performance global access with unified security to business-critical applications and networks.
BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM): An integrated, full-proxy network firewall with superior scale and performance.
BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM): A strategic combination of data center, transport, and application optimizations that overcomes WAN latency, maximizes server capacity, and speeds application response times.
BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM): A flexible web application firewall that delivers application security in traditional, virtual, and private cloud environments.
BIG-IP Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT): Provides a broad set of tools to enable service providers to manage IPv4 address depletion and migrate successfully to IPv6 while continuing to support and interoperate with existing IPv4 devices.
BIG-IP Edge Gateway: An accelerated remote access solution that integrates SSL VPN, application acceleration, and availability services.
Enterprise Manager: Reduces the cost and complexity of managing multiple BIG-IP products by providing a single-pane view and tools to automate common tasks and optimize performance.
BIG-IP Link Controller: Monitors ISP connections to direct inbound and outbound connections to the best-performing and most cost-effective link.
BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM): Utilizes subscriber and context awareness to deliver advanced Layer 7 traffic steering, network intelligence, and dynamic control of network resources.