BIG-IP Next Virtual Edition

Simple, secure, and scalable app services delivered wherever you need them.

Next-Gen App Services for Hybrid and Multicloud Apps

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Simplified operations and enhanced automation

In our multicloud world where added complexity is around every corner, opportunities for simplification are few and far between. BIG-IP Next VE removes unnecessary complexity and streamlines your day-to-day operations, giving you more time to focus on what really matters: your apps.

  • Streamlined Policy Creation and Deployment - Quickly and seamlessly provision app services, leveraging declarative APIs and configuration templates that eliminate the need for exhaustive domain knowledge.
  • Enhanced Automation - Integrate BIG-IP Next VE within existing CI/CD processes to automatically provision app services and keep configurations up to date in highly dynamic ecosystems.
  • Rapid Software Upgrades and Patches - Perform major BIG-IP Next VE software upgrades in as little as 10 minutes and complete minor patches while passing application traffic.

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Industry-leading performance and scale

Applications that suffer from unavailability or diminished performance are simply unacceptable in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. BIG-IP Next VE delivers unrivaled data plane and control plane performance, helping maintain high quality, low latency application experiences for your users at all times.

  • Industry-Leading Data Plane Performance - Cost-efficiently scale to support your most in-demand apps and maximize uptime for your users.
  • Superior Control Plane Scale - Confidently support your most complex and dynamic apps with a control plane built for maximum performance and resiliency.
  • Hardware Offload - Boost performance for CPU-intensive functions like cryptoprocessing by offloading them to high-performance hardware components.

Product Overview

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BIG-IP Next VE and BIG-IP Next Central Manager

While BIG-IP Next VE is your enforcement point for sophisticated security policies and traffic routing decisions, your centralized management interface for those BIG-IP Next VE instances is the BIG-IP Next Central Manager. Included at no additional cost, BIG-IP Next Central Manager provides a single, centralized point of control for managing every aspect of your entire BIG-IP Next fleet.

Delivers highly performant, secure, L4-7 application services wherever your apps are deployed.

Provides a centralized point of control for managing, automating, and monitoring BIG-IP Next instances deployed anywhere.

Core Capabilities

BIG-IP Next VE affords the same comprehensive suite of app services as BIG-IP Next hardware deployments, ranging from local and global server load balancing to web application firewall protection (WAF), with more functionalities added regularly.

Ensure application availability with next-gen, highly scalable, and readily automatable app delivery services. 

Mitigate the latest web app and API threats while streamlining day-to-day operations for security and development teams.

Shift left with access-as-code, and make it easier and faster to secure access to every app, no matter where deployed.

Simplify and modernize encrypted threat protection with optimized encrypted traffic visibility and orchestration services.

Platform Support and Integrations

Private cloud support

Maintain application availability and security within the sanctuary of your own private cloud with BIG-IP Next VE.

Hardware offload integrations

Offload TLS/SSL cryptographic processing to Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) to significantly boost performance, alleviate strain on compute resources, and lower total cost of ownership.

 

Coming next

Gain the freedom to deploy your apps wherever needed while reusing the same suite of application services you know and trust. Support for BIG-IP Next VE in the following environments is currently under development  and is not yet supported*.

*Support for these environments is anticipated, however F5 does not guarantee support for each of these environments in future.

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