F5 VELOS ADC Modular Chassis System
F5 VELOS is a secure, high-performance Application Delivery Controller chassis system that enables organizations to meet the demands of high-growth AI apps and AI network data ingestion with unmatched scalability, flexibility, and resilience.
High Performance Application Delivery at Scale
F5 VELOS secures application delivery across environments, protecting against a complex threat landscape while maintaining optimal performance provided by offload to state-of-the-art FPGA’s. With built-in security layers, including BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM), BIG-IP Advanced WAF, SSL/TLS encryption, and bot defense software, VELOS supports seamless delivery of AI data while safeguarding against threats.
- Intelligently Manages Encrypted Traffic - VELOS’s advanced FPGA hardware offload and BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator deliver high-performance decryption of inbound and outbound SSL/TLS traffic, enabling security inspection that exposes threats and stops attacks before they happen.
- Unmatched DNS Performance - With a feature set that includes multicore scalability, DNS Express, and IP Anycast integration, VELOS with BIG-IP DNS can hyperscale to handle millions of DNS queries and ensure top application performance for users.
- Protects Apps, APIs, and Data - VELOS with BIG-IP Advanced WAF protects against the most prevalent attacks such as zero-day vulnerabilities, app-layer DoS attacks, threat campaigns, application takeover, and bots.
Product Overview
Accelerate, Scale, and Secure Modern Workloads
VELOS provides the secure, high-performance foundation organizations need to deliver reliable, scalable, and resilient application experiences. Engineered to manage complex, high-throughput workloads across complex infrastructure environments, VELOS integrates BIG-IP software services to offer robust security, operational flexibility, and advanced traffic management. VELOS empowers organizations to streamline application and network data delivery, safeguard critical data, and optimize performance, adapting to the evolving needs of modern organizations.
Scale and protect applications at the data center and edge sites.
Deploy your apps and clouds at dedicated interconnection points.
Core Capabilities
Get unmatched performance with improved ROI
Achieve accelerated app performance and lower latency with more FPGAs and ECC ciphers.
Accomplish more with automation
Reduce deployment time from weeks to minutes with a fully automatable API-first architecture.
Future proof your infrastructure
Frictionless migration and flexible licensing for the Kubernetes-based hardware of the future.
Lower your TCO
Simplify and consolidate your existing infrastructure with significantly lower operating costs.
Carrier class reliability
Reduce risk with NEBS compliancy and redundant configurations and components.
The VELOS Chassis and Blade Catalog
VELOS is available as a 32-slot CX1610 or an 8- slot CX410 chassis, supporting half-width 400Gbps BX520 and quarter-width 100 Gbps BX110 blades. VELOS now scales to multi-terabit throughput, meeting the highest performance demands of organizations of all sizes.
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CX1610 | 32-Slot Chassis
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CX410 | 8-Slot Chassis
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BX520 | Half-Width Blade
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BX110 | Quarter-Width Blade
Redefine scale and performance
Purpose-built for massive, data-intensive service provider and enterprise AI environments, the CX1610 sets a new standard for scalability and resilience. Whether you’re a large enterprise running mission-critical AI applications, tackling data-intensive AI workloads, or a service provider scaling to meet the next-generation 5G, broadband, and security demands, this NEBS-compliant chassis offers the robust scalability and security needed to meet tomorrow’s performance demands. Compatible with the BX520 blade.
Compact reliability for mid-scale environments
Offering carrier-grade performance in a streamlined footprint, the CX410 enables robust traffic management and security without compromising on scalability. Whether supporting regional data centers, edge applications, or service provider services, this NEBS-compliant chassis unifies traffic management, security, and scalability to adapt seamlessly to evolving network needs. Compatible with either the BX520 or BX110 blades.
High-performance delivery and ultra-low latency
The BX520 Blade combines ultra-low latency with advanced application delivery to handle complex workflows, analytics, cryptography, AI data ingestion, and subscriber services. Its multi-tenant design and lightning-fast packet processing provide efficient resource utilization, ensuring optimal performance under heavy load for ever-growing user and workload demands. Compatible with both the CX1610 and CX410 Chassis.
Compact power meets enterprise-grade delivery
Ideal for targeted throughput requirements and low-latency application delivery, the BX110 blade extends VELOS’s advanced capabilities to smaller-scale deployments for the CX410. Its flexible, efficient design optimizes service provider and enterprise workloads alike, enabling rapid, secure, and high-performance processing wherever it’s needed most. Compatible with the CX410 Chassis.
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