BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
The foundation of F5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) software intelligently manages network traffic, so applications are always reliable, secure, and optimized.
More Than Load Balancing
F5 ADSP unifies application delivery and security, with BIG-IP LTM enabling seamless traffic management and optimization across hybrid and multicloud environments. Leveraging intelligent orchestration and centralized control, BIG-IP LTM empowers users with unmatched application performance, reliability, and scalability.
No one likes a slow, unreliable application. BIG-IP LTM scales dramatically to meet traffic demands, improving load times and user experience. It also makes real-time protocol and traffic-management decisions based on application and server conditions and puts control in your hands with rule customization and programmability.
- TCP Optimization - Enable state-of-the-art optimization to dramatically improve mobile performance.
- Caching - Offload repetitive traffic from application servers to improve performance and scale.
- Emerging Protocols - Provide load-balancing support for IoT clients through the MQTT protocol.
You want to know how your applications and network are performing for users at all times. BIG-IP LTM puts data logging and analysis, real-time application health monitoring, and detailed F5 Analytics at your fingertips to help you maintain and improve application performance.
- F5 Analytics - Provides detailed monitoring for applications to analyze and improve performance.
- High Speed Logging - Processes and sends the log messages to remote high-speed log servers for reporting.
- Detailed Analysis - Export data streams to third-party analytics for detailed search and issue resolution.
Revolutionize your AI network traffic management with the powerful traffic management capabilities of BIG-IP LTM, designed to reduce costs, boost performance, and enhance security protection. Scale to meet the demands of rapidly increasing traffic throughput necessary to train complex AI models. Learn more about how F5 helps realize an AI-driven digital world here.
- Reduce Network Traffic Costs - Process data on-premises to cut network traffic costs and minimize dependency on expensive, unpredictable cloud bandwidth.
- Boost Data Processing Performance - Use F5’s advanced traffic management capabilities to accelerate data processing speeds crucial for efficient AI training.
- Enhanced Data Security - Retain sensitive training data within your organization’s perimeter, enhancing security and compliance with regulatory standards.
Take control of your application traffic with iRules, a powerful scripting language that lets you customize traffic management to meet unique business requirements. Whether it's enforcing compliance, enhancing security, fixing application-related errors, or optimizing performance, iRules programmability empowers you to solve complex challenges with ease.
- Custom Traffic Control - Enable granular control over application traffic flows, allowing you to modify, redirect, or inspect traffic at layers 4–7.
- Enhanced Security - Strengthen your network defenses with tailored security rules that mitigate risks and protect data based on custom-defined logic.
- Rapid Adaptability - Respond to evolving business needs and emerging threats by quickly deploying or modifying iRules without downtime.
- Use AI Assistant to Create iRules with Natural Language - F5 AI Assistant simplifies, generates, and refines iRules, enabling teams to streamline workflows, enhance security, & accelerate innovation at scale.
Product Overview
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager sits between clients and hosts, managing traffic into and out of a data center by way of a pre-configured virtual server that points to a cluster. This gives control over network traffic; selecting the best host destination based on server performance, security, and availability. LTM can be deployed across the range of F5 Appliances running BIG-IP Software.
Hardware
Both the F5 rSeries family of appliances and the VELOS chassis are purpose-built, powerful hardware that F5 BIG-IP software runs on.
Virtual Editions
BIG-IP VEs have the same features as those that run on F5 hardware—and you can deploy them on any hypervisor or select cloud provider.
Core Capabilities
SSL acceleration
Offloads SSL encryption from data center servers and frees resources to boost app performance.
Real-time analytics
See response time and traffic surges. Quickly get to the source of app performance issues.
Full elasticity
Provides clustering, virtualization, and on-demand scaling.
Strong security
Detects DDoS attacks and mitigates over 100 vectors to keep apps online.
Availability
Maintain application availability by influencing traffic in real-time and understanding applications, protocols, and networks.
Full proxy visibility
Inspect, manage and report on all app traffic entering and exiting your network, giving you granular control over traffic flows.
Platform Support and Integrations
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Technology Alliances
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Container Ingress Services
Technology Alliances
F5 application services integrate with major cloud providers and are available directly through marketplace offerings with variable PAYG or perpetual BYOL consumption options.
Container Ingress Services
F5 Container Ingress Services (CIS) integrates with container orchestration environments to dynamically create L4/L7 services on F5 platforms with BIG-IP software, and load balance network traffic across the services.
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In today's fast-paced world of cybersecurity and application development, organizations are caught in an endless sprint toward digital transformationIn today's dynamic, application-centric marketplace, organizations are under more and more pressure to deliver the information, services, and experiences their customers expect—and to do it quickly, reliably, and securely. Discover how F5's ADSP can help navigate the challenges of modern application deployment and security.