F5 Synthesis

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Mobility

SDDC/Cloud

Advanced threats

Internet of Things

Quality of experience

“Software Defined” everything

HTTP is the new TCP

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Agile

Development

Rapid deployment─ network and operations velocity

Speed, customer-driven, and quality of app development

Customer Challenges: Applications and Infrastructure

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Cloud and

DevOps

Cloud SLA and control private network agility

Accelerate time to market

Agile

Development

Rapid deployment─ network and operations velocity

Speed, customer-driven, and quality of app development

Customer Challenges: Applications and Infrastructure

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SDN and

Private Cloud

Dynamic data centers─private service velocity

Cloud and

DevOps

Cloud SLA and control private network agility

Accelerate time to market

Agile

Development

Rapid deployment─ network and operations velocity

Speed, customer-driven, and quality of app development

Failed to Address:

L4–7 services sprawl and application awareness

Customer Challenges: Applications and Infrastructure

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F5 VISION

Applications without constraints

The Time Is Right

SDN and

Private Cloud

Software Defined Data Centers

Cloud and

DevOps

Cloud SLA and control private network agility

Accelerate time to market

Agile

Development

Rapid deployment─ network and operations velocity

Speed, customer-driven, and quality of app development

Failed to Address:

L4–7 device sprawl and application awareness

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The Evolution of F5

• Security

• Mobility/LTE

• Domain Name Services

• Hypervisor/Cloud ubiquity

• Multi-tenancy, all-active

• Identity access management

• Traffic management

• Optimization

• Acceleration 1

2

3

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Software Defined Application Services

• High performance services fabric

• Intelligent services orchestration

• Simplified business models 4

The Evolution of F5

Application Delivery Controller

• Traffic management

• Optimization

• Acceleration 1

Broadened Application Services • Security

• Mobility/LTE

• Domain Name Services 2

Cloud Ready • Hypervisor/Cloud ubiquity

• Multi-tenancy, all-active

• Identity access management 3

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Synthesis Elements

High Performance Services Fabric

Simplified Business Models

High Performance Services Fabric

Network [Physical • Overlay • SDN]

Virtual Edition Chassis Appliance

High Performance Services Fabric

On-demand Scaling All-active Clustering Multi-tenancy

ScaleN

TMOS TMOS TMOS TMOS

Network [Physical • Overlay • SDN]

High Performance Services Fabric

Network [Physical • Overlay • SDN]

Virtual Edition Chassis Appliance

iApps iControl iRules iCall Groovy Node.js

Programmability

High Performance Services Fabric

iApps iControl iRules iCall Groovy Node.js

Programmability

Network [Physical • Overlay • SDN]

Virtual Edition Chassis Appliance Throughput Connections

per second

Concurrent

connections

Multi-tenant

instances

Device service

clusters

Fabric Connectors

Module Connectors

Cloud Connectors

Orchestration Connectors

Intelligent Services Orchestration

BIG-IQ

Perpetual

Subscriptions

Simplified Business Models

BYOL

Cloud Licensing Program

Good Better Best Offerings

Fle

xib

ilit

y

Make it easier to adopt

advanced F5 functionality

Sim

plicit

y

Consolidate into fewer

common configurations

Be

st

Va

lue

Pay less for modules when

purchasing GBB Good Better Best

VE Price

Comparison

Bought As Package Bought As Components

Good Better Best

Appliance

Comparison

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager Application Acceleration Manager BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager SDN Service Advanced Routing BIG-IP Access Policy Manager BIG-IP Application Security Manager

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SDDC / Cloud

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F5 Synthesis Reference Architecture

https://synthesis.f5.com

DDoS protection reference architecture

Legitimate Users

Threat Feed Intelligence

DDoS Attacker

ISPa/b

Cloud Scrubbing

Service

Scanner Anonymous Proxies

Anonymous Requests

Botnet Attackers

Network attacks: ICMP flood, UDP flood, SYN flood

DNS attacks: DNS amplification,

query flood, dictionary attack,

DNS poisoning

IPS

Next-Generation Firewall

Tier 2

SSL attacks: SSL renegotiation,

SSL flood

HTTP attacks: Slowloris,

slow POST, recursive POST/GET

Application

Corporate Users

Financial Services

E-Commerce

Subscriber

Tier 2

Threat Feed Intelligence

Strategic Point of Control

Multiple ISP strategy

Network

and DNS

Tier 1

F5 Synthesis Partner Ecosystem

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DevOps

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Intelligent Orchestration Services • Single pane of glass

• Rapid system and service provisioning

• Ecosystem enablement

High Performance Services Fabric • Elastic, multi-tenant, all active

• Application services aware

• Extensible and programmable

• SW | HW | Cloud

Simplified Business Models • New licensing models • Easy to procure • Save by purchasing bundles

Solutions for an Application World.