"BIG-IP is an amazing piece of hardware that provides high-availability load balancing, fast and extremely intelligent layer 7 switching, granular interactive control, DoS protection, resource pooling and a number of other features to help protect an enterprise's Internet presence."
Scott Sidel, Information Security Magazine

BIG-IP is aware of everything contained in the traffic going to and coming from the applications - allowing it to guarantee availability and accelerate application performance.

Key Benefits

• Reliability - Delivers the industry's most proven and advanced system to ensure that applications are always available.
  
• Accelerated Applications - Provides unmatched control to accelerate application performance by up to 3-times, ensures that priority applications are served first, and offloads expensive server cycles. 
  
• Reduced Server and Bandwidth Costs - Triples server capacity through a rich set of infrastructure optimization capabilities; reduces bandwidth costs by up to 80% through intelligent HTTP compression, bandwidth management and more.
  
• Greater Network and Application Security - From DoS protection to cloaking to filtering out application attacks, BIG-IP adds critical security features that cannot be addressed elsewhere in the network.
  
• Unmatched Application Intelligent and Control - The industry's only solution which delivers complete application fluency - enabling network-speed full payload inspection and programmable event-based traffic management to understand and act upon application flows.
• Total Integration for All IP Applications -- Provides a comprehensive solution that can integrate with all applications, not just Web based protocols.  Provides organizations with a centralized solution for all IP applications, including legacy and emerging applications like VOIP -- all in a single unified system.
  
• Industry Leading Performance - Delivers the fastest traffic management solution to secure, deliver and optimize application performance. Offers best-in-market SSL TPS, bulk encryption, and the highest concurrent SSL connections available today.

BIG-IP - Global Traffic Management
BIG-IP Global Traffic Management provides high availability of IP applications/services running across multiple data centers around the world. It distributes end-user requests according to business policies, data center conditions and network conditions -- ensuring the highest possible availability for your sites.

BIG-IP - Local Traffic Management
BIG-IP is the local area application traffic management solution, ensuring cost-effective, secure deployment of enterprise, mobile, and Web services applications.

BIG-IP - ISP Traffic Management
For organizations, maintaining only one link to the public network represents a single point of failure and serious network vulnerability. BIG-IP Link Controller seamlessly monitors availability and performance for multiple connections. Traffic can now be directed over the best possible link and ISP -- ensuring the highest possible quality of service and speed for users

Security & Acceleration
As the leader in SSL acceleration, F5's BIG-IP SSL Accelerator provides the industry's fastest and most scalable SSL processing platform -- easily handling bulk encryption and large traffic volumes while freeing up processing for other needed functions.

BIG-IP Modules
Because the BIG-IP product runs on F5's unique TM/OS (traffic management operating system), we've made it easy to extend the power and functionality of BIG-IP by adding software modules. F5 software modules help organizations incorporate new functionality, including compression and SSL acceleration, without the burden of adding new hardware.