Unlike other load-balancing and application acceleration solutions, F5 occupies a strategic point where applications and users connect on the network. This enables F5 to serve as a single control point across the network – adding intelligence and manageability, offloading applications to free up servers and eliminating the need to rewrite applications.

• Big IP Global Traffic Manager: Disaster recovery and SOA applications availability
• Big IP Link Controller: ISP and WAN availability and optimization
• WANJet: LAN-like application performance over the WAN
• Big IP Local Traffic Manager: Making applications fast, secure and available
• Web Accelerator: Superior Web application performance
• FirePass: SSL, VPN
• TrafficShield: Application firewall