BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager  (LTM) turns your network into a dynamic infrastructure for delivering applications. It acts as a complete intermediary between users and the application server, creating an abstraction layer for protecting, optimizing, and load balancing application traffic. This gives you the flexibility and control you need to easily add applications and servers, eliminate downtime, improve application performance, and meet your security needs.

BIG-IP LTM is a complete proxy between users and application servers that provides security, optimization and load balancing of application traffic.

Main advantages: F5 certification

1. Ease of application deployment and guaranteed availability

2. Ability to manage application delivery

3. Acceleration and optimization of applications: intelligent distribution, compression, flexible QoS L7 management, TCP Express, iSession.

4. Securing applications, networks and data: Hiding resources and service errors, selective encryption, encryption of cookies, analysis of protocol anomalies, firewall capabilities and other functions

5. Reducing server load: content conversion, OneConnect, fast caching, SSL acceleration and offloading, TCP connection queuing and other technologies

6. Easy to configure and manage: iApp configuration templates, correlated application statistics, hardware clustering and configuration synchronization, administrative domains.

Complex load balancing:

BIG-IP LTM includes static and dynamic load balancing tools such as Dynamic Ratio, Least Connections and Observed Load Balancing, while dynamically tracking server performance in a group, so that the best resources are always chosen to achieve the highest performance and scalability.

Application state control:

BIG-IP LTM has sophisticated controls that monitor the availability of devices, applications and content. These tools include specialized monitors for various applications (including various application servers, SQL, SIP, LDAP, RADIUS, Diameter, XML / SOAP, RTSP, SASP, SMB, and many more), as well as custom monitors that inspect content and simulate calls. applications. 

High availability and transaction security:

Device Service Clustering provides flexible high availability scaling and synchronization of active and live application traffic configurations between active and standby devices. In this case, the active / standby configuration is not 1: 1, but N: 1, that is, the application load is distributed to as many active devices as they are required depending on the constraints imposed by the resources and the availability of resources, that is, true horizontal scaling is provided. BIG-IP LTM provides system failover in less than a second and full link mirroring. This achieves extremely high availability of the solution in the event of any system, server or application failure.

Available as:

BIG-IP hardware platform

VIPRION blade chassis

* BIG-IP Virtual Edition can run on VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Linux KVM hypervisors, and Amazon Web Services

The block system for managing the functionality of F5 Networks solutions allows you to combine the proposed solutions in an extensive framework. So the manager of local traffic BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is available as a separate solution, as part of specialized  bundles , or in any combination with the  modules offered by the company