Product: F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager 1500
Family:F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
Vendor: F5

Product Description: F5’s BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager is built on TMOS that provides organizations with a holistic way to solve the challenges of multi-service applications, including performance, security, high availability, and management. The BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager is the only solution that provides organizations with the flexibility and scalability they need to adapt to evolving application requirements while delivering the best quality of service to their end users.

The BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager provides a variety of new features to help customers solve high availability, performance and management problems across multiple datacenters.

• Application-Specific Monitoring - Ensures application-specific high availability and adequate capacity prior to routing traffic to a site

• Distributed Application Management- Ensures application availability by tracking and managing interdependencies between applications

• Client Continuity - Ensures application session integrity without loss of data

• iRules- Provides programmatic control of DNS traffic

• Support for IPV6 networks – Supports next generation networks

• ZoneRunner zone file management utility- Grows DNS infrastructure in a scalable manner without management complexity and overhead

• New Graphical User Interface- Provides a holistic view into application and data center health from a centralized location

• TMOS

Performance: Upto 40,000 DNS resolutions/second

Interfaces: 4 x Gigabit Ethernet CU Ports; and 2 x optional Gigabit Fiber Ports (SFP-GBIC Mini).

Key Features & Benefits:

• Guarantees global high availability and reliability of applications and web services across multiple sites.

• Dramatically improves performance by directing global users to the best site.

• Ensures application-specific high availability and adequate capacity prior to routing traffic to a site.

• Improves operational efficiency and control and reduces administrative costs by tracking and managing dependencies between various applications.

• Delivers superior end-user experience by ensuring application session integrity.

• Provides a holistic view into application and data center health from a centralized location.

• Reduces DNS risks and simplifies DNS Zone File management.

Highlights:

• F5 is the only vendor to offer comprehensive health monitoring that evolves with the changing application needs of an organization. The BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager supports targeted health monitoring for a wide variety of application types that allow organizations to adapt quickly with the growing demand for applications and stay competitive in the marketplace .

• Unlike the competition, F5 is the only vendor in the industry to solve the multi-service application challenge. With features such as distributed application management and client continuity, organizations can provide services such as high availability, persistence, and maintenance for these new class of applications.

• F5 is the only vendor in the industry to provide organizations with a programmatic approach for traffic distribution. Using iRules, organizations can programmatically implement global traffic distribution policies that are more in line with their business goals.

Unlike the competition, F5’s BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager offers the best-in-class management tools. With the BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager , F5 has taken a quantum leap in managing global resources, allowing organizations to configure, change, delete, and provision resources based on their changing requirements. F5 is the only vendor in the industry with ZoneRunner, an integrated Zone File Management tool that helps organizations manage their DNS infrastructure and reduce administration overhead and costs.

End-Users: Target markets include large enterprises with multiple data centers that need a reliable way of ensuring high availability and providing consistent performance across distributed sites. These customers need a way of distributing their global traffic so that it’s routed to the best performing site depending on the conditions of the network or the health of the applications/ infrastructure. They want to monitor the health of the applications and the infrastructure, and provide maximum availability by redirecting their traffic to the site that can deliver on customer expectations set forth in their Service Level Agreements. They also want to perform large-scale DNS infrastructure management with ease.

F5 Networks
401 Elliot Avenue
Seattle WA 98119 USA
Tel: 1- 206-272-5555