F5 BIG-IP
		BIG-IP is aware of everything contained in the traffic going to and coming from the applications - allowing it to guarantee availability and accelerate application performance.

Key Benefits

• Reliability - Delivers the industry's most proven and advanced system to ensure that applications are always available.
• Accelerated Applications - Provides unmatched control to accelerate application performance by up to 3-times, ensures that priority applications are served first, and offloads expensive server cycles.
• Reduced Server and Bandwidth Costs - Triples server capacity through a rich set of infrastructure optimisation capabilities; reduces bandwidth costs by up to 80% through intelligent HTTP compression, bandwidth management and more.
• Greater Network and Application Security - From DoS protection to cloaking to filtering out application attacks, BIG-IP adds critical security features that cannot be addressed elsewhere in the network.
• Unmatched Application Intelligence and Control - The industry's only solution which delivers complete application fluency - enabling network-speed full payload inspection and programmable event-based traffic management to understand and act upon application flows.
• Total Integration for All IP Applications -- Provides a comprehensive solution that can integrate with all applications, not just Web based protocols. Provides organisations with a centralised solution for all IP applications, including legacy and emerging applications like VOIP -- all in a single unified system.
• Industry Leading Performance - Delivers the fastest traffic management solution to secure, deliver and optimise application performance. Offers best-in-market SSL TPS, bulk encryption, and the highest concurrent SSL connections available today.

BIG-IP - Global Traffic Management
BIG-IP Global Traffic Management provides high availability of IP applications/services running across multiple data centers around the world. It distributes end-user requests according to business policies, data center conditions and network conditions -- ensuring the highest possible availability for your sites.

BIG-IP - Local Traffic Management
BIG-IP is the local area application traffic management solution, ensuring cost-effective, secure deployment of enterprise, mobile, and Web services applications.

BIG-IP - ISP Traffic Management
For organisations, maintaining only one link to the public network represents a single point of failure and serious network vulnerability. BIG-IP Link Controller seamlessly monitors availability and performance for multiple connections. Traffic can now be directed over the best possible link and ISP -- ensuring the highest possible quality of service and speed for users.

Security & Acceleration
As the leader in SSL acceleration, F5's BIG-IP SSL Accelerator provides the industry's fastest and most scalable SSL processing platform -- easily handling bulk encryption and large traffic volumes while freeing up processing for other needed functions.

BIG-IP Modules
Because the BIG-IP product runs on F5's unique TM/OS (traffic management operating system), we've made it easy to extend the power and functionality of BIG-IP by adding software modules. F5 software modules help organisations incorporate new functionality, including compression and SSL acceleration, without the burden of adding new hardware.

Feature Modules

• Message Security Module
• Intelligent Compression
• L7 Rate Shaping
• IPv6 Gateway
• Advanced Client Authentication
• SSL Acceleration
• Advanced Routing
• Fast Cache

Product Modules

• BIG-IP Application Security
• BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
• BIG-IP Link Controller
• BIG-IP WebAccelerator Module

For more information on the BIG-IP Product Modules, please use links in the menu bar on the left of this screen.