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Ensuring the secure and optimized delivery of applications for businesses worldwide

F5 has three core products: the BIG-IP® Controller, 3-DNS® Controller, available on a switch, appliance, or software platform, and FirePass, an appliance that provides secure SSL-VPN remote application access.

BIG-IP® Controller

BIG-IP® is a local area application traffic management solution. BIG-IP provides the benefits of traffic management, traditionally reserved for Web-only applications, to all IP based applications and Web services. BIG-IP ensures business continuity, security and performance by intercepting, inspecting, transforming, and directing application and Web services requests, based on values found in the header or payload. BIG-IP products also include SSL acceleration to offload this processing-intensive function from the application servers themselves, increasing application performance and improving security.

3-DNS® Controller

The 3-DNS® Controller provides wide-area application traffic management and high availability of IP applications/services running across multiple data centers. With 3-DNS, businesses can ensure optimal reliability and fast performance across all of their Internet sites, no matter where they are in the world. 3-DNS adds intelligence to industry-standard DNS, and ensures that end users are sent to a site that is available and provides the best response. Its unique intelligence can examine the health of data centers, the network, and the geography of users, then direct traffic based on customizable business rules.

FirePass Controller

FirePass is a network appliance that provides clientless, secure remote user access to corporate networks via any standard Web browser. FirePass installs in a few hours, requires no modifications to the corporate applications, and requires no configuration or setup at the remote client location.

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