Have you heard of F5 Networks before? F5 Networks technology focuses on the performance, security, delivery, and availability of web applications, as well as the availability of servers, cloud resources, data storage devices, and other network components.
The US-based industry was originally known for its load balancing products. Today, F5’s product and service line has expanded to include everything related to application delivery, including local load balancing and acceleration, global (DNS-based) load balancing and acceleration, security through web application firewalls and product authentication and access applications, defense against DDoS attacks, and more.
F5 technologies can be found in data centers and clouds, including private, public, and multi-cloud environments based on platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and OpenStack. WIRD Group has been the partner that introduced F5 Networks in early 2000 to the Swiss market.
As an F5 Networks Platinum Partner, WIRD remains a leading value-added reseller of F5 Networks products and solutions with world-class F5 skills among its staff. Now that we’ve gotten to know F5 Networks’ technology, let’s talk about the services they offer.
F5 Networks Featured Software
The following is a list of superior services offered from f5.com:
BIG-IP Advanced F5 Networks Firewall Manager
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is a high-performance, full-proxy network security solution designed to protect networks and data centers from incoming threats entering the network.
It is built on F5’s industry-leading BIG-IP hardware and software platform. BIG-IP AFM provides a scalable platform that delivers the flexible performance and control needed to mitigate denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and aggressive protocols before they overwhelm and degrade application and infrastructure availability.
BIG-IP DNS
F5 BIG-IP DNS distributes DNS and user application requests based on business policies, data center and cloud service conditions, user location, and application performance. The BIG-IP platform delivers F5’s high performance DNS service with hyperscales visibility, reporting and analytics and secures DNS responses geographically to defend against DDoS attacks, provide real-time DNSSEC solutions and ensure global application high availability across all cloud environments.
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is an access management proxy solution that manages global access to user networks, cloud providers, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs). F5 BIG-IP APM combines authentication for remote users and systems, mobile devices, distributed networks, virtual environments, and web access.
BIG-IP APM also bridges modern and classical authentication and authorization protocols and methods. For applications that cannot support modern authentication and authorization protocols, such as SAML and OAuth with OIDC, BIG-IP APM converts user credentials to the appropriate authentication standard supported by the application.
This is an informational article about the technology that F5 has in managing problems that occur in the network. In addition, you can also try Netmonk’s Network Monitoring service to monitor the processes that occur in the network and servers belonging to the company / business that you are handling. You can also try a free trial for 14 days here: https://netmonk.id/free-trial.
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