F5-BIG-AFM-VE-24-V18

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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VEs) are the industry’s most scalable virtual application delivery controllers (vADCs)—facilitating high-performance application traffic processing across all leading hypervisors and cloud platforms and easing your transition from hardware to software. VEs deliver all the same market-leading application delivery services—including advanced traffic management, application security, application acceleration, DNS, network firewalling and secure access management—that run on F5 purpose-built hardware. This similarity enables service configurations and policies from existing F5 appliances to be reused and replicated on VEs, simplifying cloud migrations.

Available BIG-IP Modules

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
BIG-IP DNS
BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
Advanced WAF (AWF)
SSL Orchestrator (SSLO)
BIG-IP Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT)
BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM)

VEs can easily be provisioned and configured automatically by network operators and developers alike, allowing them to be integrated within existing CI/CD pipelines and ensuring all applications are deployed with the necessary security, compliance, and traffic management capabilities. When used in conjunction with F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management, you can rapidly create, provision, and manage application services anywhere while gaining visibility into the health and performance of your multi-cloud apps, all from a centralized point of control.

Supported Public Cloud IAAS Providers

Public cloud	Lab	25 Mbps	200 Mbps	1 Gbps	3 Gbps	5 Gbps	10 Gbps	HPVE
Amazon Web Services and GovCloud	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Amazon IC Marketplace		●	●	●
Microsoft Azure and Government	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Google Cloud Platform	●	●	●	●		●	●	●
VMware on IBM Cloud		●	●	●		●
Alibaba Cloud International		●	●	●		●	●
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure		●	●	●		●	●

Table 1. Throughput Licensed VE Specifications

Performance	Starting	Maximum*
L7 requests per second	3,000	450,000
L4 connections per second	2,000	135,000
L4 throughput	25 Mbps	10 Gbps**
Maximum L4 concurrent connections	1 million	10 million
SSL
SSL RSA TPS (2K keys)	900	3,800
SSL throughput (RSA)	23 Mbps	4 Gbps
SSL ECC TPS	1,200	20,000***
SSL throughput (ECC)	23 Mbps	5.4 Gbps
Software Compression
Compression throughput	20 Mbps	4 Gbps
DNS
Query response per second	1,000	250,000

Table 2. High Performance VE Specifications

Performance	Maximum*
L7 requests per second	4.6 million
L4 connections per second	1.4 million
L4 throughput	85 Gbps**
SSL
SSL RSA TPS (2K keys)	30,000
SSL throughput (RSA)	32 Gbps
SSL ECC TPS	100,000
SSL throughput (ECC)	37 Gbps
SSL with Intel QAT
SSL RSA TPS (2K keys)	95,000
SSL throughput (RSA)	60 Gbps
SSL ECC TPS	59,000
SSL Throughput (ECC)	46 Gbps
DNS
DNS Query response per second	1.8 million