Located in the data center in front of servers, firewalls and gateways, F5's BIG-IP allows organizations to extend the benefits of traffic management to all of their IP-based applications. This is called Application Traffic Management. Pioneered and perfected by F5, Application Traffic Management allows organizations to ensure quality of service and manageability, apply business policies and rules to content delivery, support increasing traffic volumes, deliver their applications securely, enjoy operational efficiency and cost control, and remain flexible to future application and infrastructure changes to protect their investments.

Next Generation WAN Link Traffic Management for Maximum Link Performance and Availability

As organizations increase their use of the Internet to deliver applications, maintaining only one link to the public network exposes a single point of failure and serious network vulnerability. The BIG-IP Link Controller seamlessly monitors availability and performance of multiple WAN ISP connections to intelligently manage bi-directional traffic flows to a site, providing fault tolerant and optimized Internet access