1. F5 Synthesis
Nilesh Mistry
Field Systems Engineer

2. “Software defined” everything
Technology Shifts Are Creating Challenges and Opportunities
Advanced threats
“Software defined” everything
Internet of Things
SDDC/Cloud
Key Points:
IT challenges are growing at exponential rates
Most of these challenges are external forces pushing in on IT
The challenges are a mix of both apps and infrastructure – mobile apps and BYoD tax both the app and network infrastructure
However the solutions are typically siloed, focused on solving very specific issues without addressing the larger problems as a whole
These technology shifts, many of which are creating market transitions. Creating a great opportunity for solutions. For example,
Users no longer work from the office. Today, they work for anywhere, at any time, one any device, and corporations needs solutions for a mobile work force
The rise of the Cloud and Software Define Data Center….means that applications are equally portable and require a new set of solutions to ensure they’re fast, secure and available
With such changes, there are new forms or threats…from simple FW solutions, to DDoS (volumetric and application centric), to malware, fraud and much more
Lets not forget Software Defined “Everything”, customer want a much more agile infrastructure and orchestration and manageability. At a push of a button they want to orchestrate the whole stack.
Clearly, there will be more devices and traffic. Demanding more diameter signaling, security and QoE
And last, let not forget the HTTP is the new TCP. HTTP is the web protocol and therefore your network infrastructure needs to be aware of the session flows and messages, which requires intelligence beyond the traditional layer 3 solutions
All these solutions are having dramatic implications on applications an the users that access them.
Mobility
HTTP is the new TCP

3. Impact on Data Center Architecture: Applications
MICRO-ARCHITECTURES
API DOMINANCE
Each service is isolated and requires its own:
Load balancing
Authentication / authorization
Security
Layer 7 Services
May be API-based, expanding services required
Proxies are used in emerging API-centric architectures for:
API versioning
Client-based steering
API Load balancing
Metering & billing
API key management
More applications needing services
More intelligence needed in services
Service A
Service C
Service B
Service D
KEY: Transformation of application architectures is driving data center architectures with more need for intelligent services in the network. These services must match service velocity and lower the cost of entry as the number of applications needing services increases with each new application and application version or organizations will respond with discrete services that introduce operational risk and inability to consistently deploy new applications.
API v1
API v2

4. Impact on Data Center Architecture: Network
SOLUTION SPRAWL
OPERATIONAL INCONSISTENCY
Increasing threats and client platforms result in need for:
Mobile device management
Mobile access management
Mobile security
DDoS
Application layer threats
Malware
Introduction of off-premise cloud solutions without architectural parity results in:
Inconsistent enforcement of business and operational policies
Unpredictable application performance and security
Increased OpEx as new management paradigms are introduced
SaaS
KEY: Transformation of data center architectures causing an increase in point solution deployment and the introduction of additional management platforms and paradigms that impair performance, security and decrease efficiency of all operational groups, ultimately causing an increase in the cost of services and a decrease in service velocity.

5. F5 MISSION
Deliver the most secure, fast, and reliable applications to anyone anywhere at any time.
What really matters is the application and it needs to work well.

6. 3 2 1 The Evolution of F5 Cloud Ready Broadened Application Services
Hypervisor/Cloud ubiquity
Multi-tenancy, all-active
Identity access management 2
Broadened Application Services
Security
Mobility/LTE
Domain Name Services
The evolution of F5
There may be a Phase 0 which is the traditional Load Balancing Market, but in 2004, F5 launched the ADC market. Focused on a full-proxy architecture delivered by TMOS. Really focusing on providing value to the applications and server environment's.
Then approximately, 7 years ago, entered Phase 2 by organically investing and acquiring small technology companies and expanding our services portfolio.
Two years ago began a strong push into ensuring that our technology was cloud ready. Enabling VE solutions from across all hypervisors. Increasing their performance and density. Moving from HA pairs to the highest multi-tenancy solutions that are all active. 1
Application Delivery Controller
Traffic management
Optimization
Acceleration

7. Application Environment
Agile Development
Driver:
Speed, customer- driven, and quality of app development
During this same time the Application Environment has gone through a lot of change.
In the past 5 years we’ve seen the push to Agile Development. Focused on speed and customer driven application solutions. However, although we’ve become more efficient at developing applications, agile wasn’t focused on rapid deployment of those applications.
Failed to Address:
Rapid deployment─ network and operations velocity

8. Application Environment
Cloud and
DevOps
Agile Development
Driver:
Speed, customer- driven, and quality of app development
Driver:
Accelerate time to market
This gap was closed by many by either deploying their applications on the cloud and/or evolving their development and IT organizations with the creation of DevOps
The goal was simply to getting applications deployed quicker. However, the cloud couldn’t ensure SLA and many customer wanted cloud like private solutions
Failed to Address:
Rapid deployment─ network and operations velocity
Failed to Address:
Cloud SLA and control private network agility

9. Application Environment
SDN and
Private Cloud
Agile Development
Cloud and
DevOps
Driver:
Speed, customer- driven, and quality of app development
Driver:
Accelerate time to market
Driver:
Software defined data centers
This gave rise to the SDN and Private Cloud…The Software Define Data Center.
And although we’re in this stage of our evolutions with many solutions entering the market. All solutions fail to address, L4-7 device sprawl and any true application awareness
F5 is in the best position to provide solutions in this space.
Failed to Address:
L4–7 device sprawl and application awareness
Failed to Address:
Rapid deployment─ network and operations velocity
Failed to Address:
Cloud SLA and control private network agility

10. Applications without constraints The Time Is Right F5 VISION SDN and
Private Cloud
Driver:
Software Defined Data Centers
Cloud and
DevOps
Failed to Address:
Cloud SLA and control private network agility
Accelerate time to market
Agile Development
Rapid deployment─ network and operations velocity
Speed, customer- driven, and quality of app development
L4–7 device sprawl and application awareness
F5 VISION
Applications
without constraints
The Time is Right for “Delivering Applications without Constraints”.
While increasing an organizations agility, velocity and lowering their cost.

11. Which brings us to our Launch. An architecture that we call Synthesis.
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12. Software Defined Application Services
The Evolution of F5 4
Software Defined Application Services
Cloud Ready 3
Broadened Application Services 2
And the 4th Phase of our Evolution. A concept of Software Defined Application Services that build upon our previous layers or technology.
When we refer to application services we’re referring to Layer 4-7 technologies that today get provisioned via point appliances in many network. Our Vision is to enable these services in a Software Defined manner.
Application Delivery Controller 1
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13. Software Defined Application Services Elements
Intelligent
Services Orchestration
High-Performance Services Fabric
SDAS is comprised of three elements.
High Performance Services Fabric
Intelligent Services Orchestration
Simplified Business Model
Lets jump into these three elements
Simplified Business Models

14. High Performance Services Fabric
F5 makes intelligent, programmable Software Defined Application Services (SDAS) available to all applications, supported by a flexible, high performance services fabric

15. High-Performance Services Fabric
Virtual Edition
Chassis
Appliance
Starting with the HPSF:
Sitting on any network (traditional, SDN overlay – VXLAN, NVGRE)
We provide all software solutions via our Virtual Editions on all major industry hypervisors (ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen and AWS)
1 RU and 2 RU fixed appliances
4 and 8 slot single bladed chassis
Network [Physical • Overlay • SDN]

16. High-Performance Services Fabric
Elastic, multi-tenant platform
All-active
Application-aware
On-Demand Scaling
All-Active Clustering
Multi-Tenancy
ScaleN
TMOS
Any of these device elements can be scaled on-demand. Increasing the performance of the device via license keys
They can be clustered together. Creating an all active-cluster with application aware failover
And last, we be partitioned for multi-tenant solutions. We offer two solutions:
hard partitions all the way down to the operating system
or sharing an operating system but creating administrative domains.
We call our elastic, multi-tenant solutions ScaleN
Network [Physical • Overlay • SDN]

17. High-Performance Services Fabric
Elastic, multi-tenant platform
All-active
Application-aware
Performance
leader
Connections per second
320M
Concurrent connections
9.2B
Multi-tenant instances per device
80*
Clearly, our Application Services Fabric is the performance leader. Let me share some number with you:
20Tbps
9.2B connections – more than one for every human on earth, or more than three times the capacity needed to manage a connection from every Internet user today across the globe
32 devices in a cluster
and 80 hard tenant instances per device (down to the Operating system). If you notice, I’ve also asterisked that metric since we tested up to 40K when combining admin instances (partitions) with vCMP . Max Admin Partitions / Routing Domains (on BIG-IP, there is no physical limit, but we have tested to 500)
We also have max tenant number of over 40K since we tested on B2250 Max Administrative Instances (Route Domains) of 500 (note we don’t have a limit, but we tested to this limit).
Throughput
20Tbps
Device service clusters 32
Network [Physical • Overlay • SDN]
*40K when combining admin instances with vCMP

18. High-Performance Services Fabric
Elastic, multi-tenant platform
All-active
Application-aware
Performance
leader
Extensible and
programmable
Data Plane
Programmability
Control Plane
Management Plane
Virtual Edition
Chassis
Appliance
This ScaleN cluster also is high extensible and programmable.
We expose the Data Plane – via technologies like iRules (TCL), Node.js and Groovy
The Control Plane – via iCall
And the Management Plane – via iControl (SOAP and REST API’s) and iApp
This allows our customer extensibility not found in no other layer 4-7 solution in the market.
An we’re seeing ingenious uses of our programmability solutions. In general, over a 1/3 of our customer take advantage of iRules. This is based on iHealth of over 60,000 BIG-IP systems.
Network [Physical • Overlay • SDN]

19. High-Performance Services Fabric
Mobility
Security
Availability
Performance
Identity
& Access
Elastic, multi-tenant platform
All-active
Application-aware
Performance
leader
Extensible and
programmable
Catalog of application services
Data Plane
Programmability
Control Plane
Management Plane
Virtual Edition
Chassis
Appliance
And finally the Application Services Fabric hosts a catalog of application services. Focused on five major areas:
Security
Identity and Access Mgmt
Availability
Mobility
And Performance
Network [Physical • Overlay • SDN]

20. “Leave No Application Behind”
F5 makes intelligent, programmable Software Defined Application Services (SDAS) available to all applications, supported by a flexible, high performance services fabric

21. 1000 Average number of applications deployed within an enterprise
Most enterprises have thousands of applications deployed in their environment
There are two main statements of this slide
All applications need some kind of “application” service and most of the mission critical applications will need more then one. But “services” are required
All enterprises have a “cloud” strategy with some enterprises, government agencies and telco’s having a mandate to move a certain percentage of these applications to the “cloud” for cost savings and logistics.
But what is preventing the wholesale movement of these applications to the cloud is a lack of defined application specific services from the cloud providers themselves. The Enterprises want to be able to deploy these applications with the same sets of services that are provided to them in their own datacenters, but how do you do that logistically and cost effectively?
Applications require services
DDoS
WAF
SSL
LTE
Acceleration

22. The selected few NOTES:
Most enterprises have thousands of applications deployed in their environment.
All applications need some kind of “application” service and most of the mission critical applications will need more then one. But “services” are required
All enterprises have a “cloud” strategy with some enterprises, government agencies and telco’s having a mandate to move a certain percentage of these applications to the “cloud” for cost savings and logistics.
But what is preventing the movement of these applications to the cloud is a lack of defined application specific services from the cloud providers themselves. The Enterprises want to be able to deploy these applications with the same sets of services that are provided to them in their own datacenters, but how do you do that logistically and cost effectively?
The selected few

23. So, lets take a look at the “chosen few” applications that are given their own dedicated application services.
How do we design these services today? Usually, ADCs are dedicated in silo’s per application.
But what would the world look like if we knocked down the barriers and the dedicated ADC hardware was migrated to a “ADC Fabric” which scaled and provided application services with no boundaries? And what about the Cloud?
Couldn’t this fabric also extend outside your datacenter to incorporate the Cloud and the management of those applications living in the cloud under one framework?
And what if application services could be deployed and managed for ALL applications under this fabric regardless of where they live?
How would that change your business and how quickly could you measure ROI?
This would provide unlimited opportunities for you to scale your entire application delivery strategy.
This is the promise of F5 Networks.
BIG-IP
BIG-IP
BIG-IP

24. High-Performance Fabric
So, lets take a look at the “chosen few” applications that are given their own dedicated application services.
How do we design these services today? Usually, ADCs are dedicated in silo’s per application.
But what would the world look like if we knocked down the barriers and the dedicated ADC hardware was migrated to a “ADC Fabric” which scaled and provided application services with no boundaries? And what about the Cloud?
Couldn’t this fabric also extend outside your datacenter to incorporate the Cloud and the management of those applications living in the cloud under one framework?
And what if application services could be deployed and managed for ALL applications under this fabric regardless of where they live?
How would that change your business and how quickly could you measure ROI?
This would provide unlimited opportunities for you to scale your entire application delivery strategy. This is the promise of F5 Networks.
Application
Services
High-Performance Fabric
BIG-IP

25. Software Defined Application Services
F5 makes intelligent, programmable Software Defined Application Services (SDAS) available to all applications, supported by a flexible, high performance services fabric

26. Software Defined Application Services
F5 Software Defined Application Services (SDAS) are a rich set of services that address the delivery challenges faced by businesses today. Built and deployed atop extensible F5 platforms, SDAS are all application and context-aware, highly scalable, and programmatic.
Provisioned and managed within the F5 Synthesis architecture through BIG-IQ, SDAS provides organizations with the opportunity to simplify application delivery architectures without compromising on service breadth and depth.
Service Provider and Enterprise
Device, Network and Applications
Performance
and Scale
Extensible and
programmable
Automation and Orchestration

27. Software Defined Application Services
Availability services from F5 focus on eliminating single points of failure to reduce downtime and disruption. Network, application and organizational availability is critical to ensuring business continuity and access to the applications that enable today’s businesses.
Availability services span data center and cloud-hosted applications, ensuring scale and reliability regardless of where applications or users are located.
Availability
Eliminate single points of failure
Application fault isolation
Context-aware
Elastic scale
Extensible and
programmable
Public, private and hybrid cloud
Authoritative DNS
Cloud Bursting
CGNAT
Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity
Global Load Balancing
Intelligent EPC node selection
Global Server LB
DNS Caching & Resolving
Load Balancing

28. Software Defined Application Services
Performance services for F5 focus on improving the end-user experience regardless of location or device. Performance services enhance mobile and web application responsiveness by supporting protocols like SPDY and TCP optimizations and by enabling applications to dynamically take advantage of compression and caching technologies.
Any device, any user, anywhere
Performance-related protocol support
Context-aware
Cloud or data center
Performance
Acceleration
Caching
Optimization
SPDY Gateway
Application Optimization
Traffic Shaping and QoS
Compression
Web Performance Optimization
Traffic Management
Key Points:
When fully realized, the F5 Synthesis High Performance Services Fabric can support massive performance numbers, unequaled anywhere in the application delivery market.
For example, F5 Synthesis can support over 9B concurrent connections across the entire fabric, more than one sustained connection for every person on the planet.
This High Performance Services Fabric, supported by a fully scalable and managed hardware and software platform and programmatic management interfaces, is what enables application services like Security, Availability, Mobility, and Performance to applied to any application, anywhere, at any time.

29. Software Defined Application Services
Access & Identity services are critical to maintaining a positive security posture while enabling users to access applications from anywhere at anytime. F5 enables single-sign on and federation of application access across the data center and into the cloud, while maintaining the integrity of data through comprehensive endpoint inspective and anti- malware services.
Single Sign-on
Identity federation
Context-aware
Endpoint inspection and protection against fraud
Extensible and
Programmable
Any device, anywhere
Access &
Identity
Key Points:
When fully realized, the F5 Synthesis High Performance Services Fabric can support massive performance numbers, unequaled anywhere in the application delivery market.
For example, F5 Synthesis can support over 9B concurrent connections across the entire fabric, more than one sustained connection for every person on the planet.
This High Performance Services Fabric, supported by a fully scalable and managed hardware and software platform and programmatic management interfaces, is what enables application services like Security, Availability, Mobility, and Performance to applied to any application, anywhere, at any time.
Cloud Federation
Endpoint Inspection
Single Sign-On
Access Control
SAML Federation
SSL VPN
Anti-Malware
Web Access Management
Active Sync Proxy
Secure Web Gateway

30. Software Defined Application Services
Security services are an integral component to the organization’s overall security strategy. F5 security services protect and mitigate threats at every layer of the network stack. From network DDoS to SYN floods to HTTP-focused attacks, F5 services are designed to provide comprehensive detection and defense against the growing volume of threats.
Secures device, network and application
Protects critical infrastructure from disruptive attacks
Application-aware
Extends protection into the cloud
Extensible and
programmable
DNSSEC
ADF
Anti-Fraud
WAF
DDoS
SSL VPN
Anti-Phishing
DNS Firewall
Firewall
SSL intelligence
SSL Inspection
Programmability
Security
Key Points:
When fully realized, the F5 Synthesis High Performance Services Fabric can support massive performance numbers, unequaled anywhere in the application delivery market.
For example, F5 Synthesis can support over 9B concurrent connections across the entire fabric, more than one sustained connection for every person on the planet.
This High Performance Services Fabric, supported by a fully scalable and managed hardware and software platform and programmatic management interfaces, is what enables application services like Security, Availability, Mobility, and Performance to applied to any application, anywhere, at any time.

31. Application Services Portfolio
Mobility
Security
Web Access Management
Availability
Global Server
Load Balancing
SPDY
Gateway
SDN
Web Performance
Optimization
DNS Caching & Resolving
Anti-Fraud
Enrichment
Performance
VAS Bursting
Identity
& Access
Intelligent EPC node
selection
Policy
Enforcement
Secure Web Gateway
Endpoint Inspection
Authoritative DNS
Programmability
MDM
Cloud
Bursting
Active Sync Proxy
SSL
Intelligence
Subscriber
Traffic Control
Delivery
Firewall
App
SSL
VPN
Business Continuity
Roaming
LTE
Firewall
NfV
Mobile App Management
Service
Chaining
DDoS
Traffic
Shaping
and QoS
Caching
Cloud Federation
If we zoom into that we see the plethora of solutions.
For example,
Under security – FW, SSL Inspection, WAF and Web anti-fraud
Under IAM – SSL VPN, SWG, Cloud Federation
Availability has the usual suspects like SLB, GLB, but also CGNAT and DNS Solutions
Mobility is extremely right with Diameter solutions for VOLTE, Roaming, LTE, NfV and much more
And lastly Performance with SPDY Gtway, Application Optimization and Acceleration to name a few
The F5 High Performance Service Fabric offers the highest performance, most extensible/programmable with the richest set of application services.
VOLTE
DNSSEC
Traffic
Management
Optimization
Bridging
Cloud
Anti-Phishing
Application
Traffic Control
Diameter
& Routing
Anti-Malware
Disaster Recovery
Application
Optimization
SAML
Federation
CGNAT
VDI
SSL
Inspection
Access
Control
Traffic Management
Single Sign-On
Web App
Firewall
DNS Firewall
Quota Management
Mobile Acceleration
Compression
Global Load Balancing Gi
Firewall
Acceleration
SAML Federation
Mobile Optimization

32. Intelligent Services Orchestration

33. Intelligent Services Orchestration
Fabric Connectors
Module Connectors
Cloud Connectors
Orchestration Connectors
Single pane of glass
Rapid system and service provisioning
Ecosystem
enablement
BIG-IQ
Moving onto the second element, Intelligent Services Orchestration
Our single pane of glass management and orchestration solutions built upon or BIG-IQ platform.
The way to think about BIG-IQ is on 4 connector types for rapid system and service provisioning across an open ecosystem

34. Intelligent Services Orchestration
OpenStack, VMware─VCNS/VCO, Cisco/Insieme-ACI, third-party orchestrators
REST API
Orchestration Connectors
Single pane of glass
Rapid system and service provisioning
Ecosystem
enablement
Fabric Connectors
Cloud Connectors
BIG-IQ
The first connector type is our Orchestration Connector….basically offering integration via our REST API to 3rd party orchestration tools. Like VMware, VCNS, VCO or Cisco/Insieme-ACI, OpenStack and much more
Module Connectors

35. Intelligent Services Orchestration
Orchestration Connectors
Multi-tenant
Elastic
Metered
Bare metal deployment
Single pane of glass
Rapid system and service provisioning
Ecosystem
enablement
Fabric Connectors
Cloud Connectors
BIG-IQ
The second is the Fabric Connector – which enables features like multi-tenant, metered, elastic and bare metal deployment across our High Performance Services Fabric
Module Connectors

36. Intelligent Services Orchestration
Orchestration Connectors
Single pane of glass
Rapid system and service provisioning
Ecosystem
enablement
Fabric Connectors
Cloud Connectors
BIG-IQ
3rd are our BIG-IQ Module connectors that complement the High Performance Services Fabric modules.
Allowing for centralized configuration of our fabric (on-prem, in the cloud). One or hundreds of devices.
Security
Device
Cloud
ADC
MAM
And more
Module Connectors

37. Intelligent Services Orchestration
Orchestration Connectors
Single pane of glass
Rapid system and service provisioning
Ecosystem
enablement
Fabric Connectors
Cloud Connectors
BIG-IQ
Lastly, we have the Cloud Connectors.
Allowing us to bridge, burst and performance monitoring to cloud solutions from AWS and VMware. With extending to other cloud providers soon.
In addition, we offer our Virtual Editions for ESXi. Hyper-V, Xen, KVM and AWS allow us to place our solutions on any cloud environment.
Virtual editions─VMware, MSFT, XEN, KVM, and AWS
Cloud bridging and health and performance monitoring─AWS, VMware, and extending to other cloud platforms
Module Connectors

38. Centralized Management Platform
SSL
DDoS
DDoS
Traffic
Management
Centralized Management Platform
SSO
LTE
LTE
Acceleration
BIG - IQ
WAF
Anti-fraud
BIG - IQ
Set of devices and cloud with apps
Add services
Expanding app…add a device…move the services
Add a device…expand the app…add the services
Move app to the cloud
Provision services for app
BIG-IP
Data Center
Hybrid Cloud
Public Cloud
BIG-IP

39. Simplified Business Models

40. Simplified Business Models
Traditional Enterprise
Perpetual
Subscriptions
New: Good, Better, Best offerings
Public MSP Clouds
BYOL
Cloud Licensing Program
New: Utility

41. F5 Licensing: Good Good Good Offering Target Customer: Customer Needs:
Organizations that require local intelligent traffic management to ensure application availability
Modules/Services
Good
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
Load balancing and monitoring
Application Visibility and Monitoring
L7 intelligent traffic management
Core protocol optimization (HTTP, TCP, SPDY, SSL)
SSL proxy and services
IPv6 support
Programmability (iRules, iCall, iControl, iApps)
ScaleN: On demand, application & operational scaling
AAM Core (Caching, Compression, Bandwidth Controller, more)
APM Lite (User Authentication, SSL VPN for 10 concurrent users)
SYN flood protection
Customer Needs:
Rapid deployment & optimization
Real-time analysis & load balancing
SSL acceleration & offload
Easy protocol implementation

42. F5 Licensing: Better Good Better Better Offering Target Customer:
Organizations that require network security and improved end user experience with local and global intelligent traffic management
Modules/Services
Good
Better
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager
BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager
Global server load balancing
DNS services
Real-time DNSSEC solution
Global application high availability
Geolocation
DNS DDoS attack protection
Customer Needs:
Protect and optimize the data center
Optimize application delivery
Ensure optimal application availability and performance
Future-proof the business
Leverage the power of integrated SDN services
Web performance optimization
WAN optimization (data deduplication, FEC)
Mobile optimization (smart client cache, image optimization)
SaaS acceleration (reduce bandwidth usage & page load times)
High-performance ICSA firewall
Network DDoS protection
Application-centric firewall policies
Protocol anomaly detection

43. F5 Licensing: Best Good Better Best Best Offering Target Customer:
Organizations that require advanced access management and total web security in addition to network security with local and global intelligent traffic management
Modules/Services
Good
Better
Best
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager
BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager
BIG-IP Application Security Manager
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager
PCI Compliant Web Application Firewall
Web scraping prevention
Integrated XML firewall
Violation correlation & incident grouping
Application DDoS protection
Customer Needs:
Manage application access
Support BYOD initiatives
Accelerate remote access
Protect IP and minimize vulnerability exposure
Free development resources to create value
500 concurrent users, scalable up to 200K
BYOD enablement
Full Proxy for VDI (Citrix, VMware)
Single sign-on enhancements (Identity Federation with SAML 2.0)

44. F5 Synthesis High-Performance Fabric
Intelligent Services Orchestration
Simplified Business Models
What can a company do in 120 days?
Our Mission
To move information at the speed of business by delivering applications anywhere to anyone at any time.
The evolving nature of technology has changed the business landscape.
Simplified, yet stronger.
F5 is ready with a new approach that helps businesses create robust application delivery solutions in a whole new way.
Utilizing F5 ScaleN to provide the most scalable, high-density, high-performance fabric in the industry to leave no application behind.
Offering BIG-IQ for the deployment of application services, cloud orchestration, and ADC management─ one push button provisioning and all necessary API management.
Providing capacity- and volume-based licensing, software module mobility, and the unique bundling of application services.

45. F5 Synthesis F5 in Every Cloud Performance Leadership
Reference Architectures
What can a company do in 120 days?
Our Mission
To move information at the speed of business by delivering applications anywhere to anyone at any time.
The evolving nature of technology has changed the business landscape.
Simplified, yet stronger.
F5 is ready with a new approach that helps businesses create robust application delivery solutions in a whole new way.
F5 deployed and serviced in every cloud marketplace to ensure consistent Synthesis application services deployment.
Meet every performance requirement from Micro ADC 25 MB virtual editions to terabit-sized chassis solutions.
Provide fully documented and tested business outcome solutions for F5 customers to consume Synthesis.

46. F5 Synthesis Drives Shift to Software Defined Data Center
Traditional Environment
Software-defined Datacenter
Performance
Identity
& Access
Availability
Security
Mobility
These technology shifts, many of which are creating market transitions. Creating a great opportunity for solutions. For example,
Users no longer work from the office. Today, they work for anywhere, at any time, one any device, and corporations needs solutions for a mobile work force
The rise of the Cloud and Software Define Data Center….means that applications are equally portable and require a new set of solutions to ensure they’re fast, secure and available
With such changes, there are new forms or threats…from simple FW solutions, to DDoS (volumetric and application centric), to malware, fraud and much more
Lets not forget Software Defined “Everything”, customer want a much more agile infrastructure and orchestration and manageability. At a push of a button they want to orchestrate the whole stack.
Clearly, there will be more devices and traffic. Demanding more diameter signaling, security and QoE
And last, let not forget the HTTP is the new TCP. HTTP is the web protocol and therefore your network infrastructure needs to be aware of the session flows and messages, which requires intelligence beyond the traditional layer 3 solutions
All these solutions are having dramatic implications on applications an the users that access them.
Silo approach by applications
Cost Un-efficiency
No programmability, scalability
Architecture became “fabric” with high programmability and scalability
Improve cost efficiency

47. High-Performance Services Fabric Simplified Business Models
Intelligent
Services Orchestration
Elastic, multi-tenant platform, all-active
Application services–aware
Performance leader
Extensible and programmable
Catalog of application services
Single pane of glass
Rapid system and service provisioning
Ecosystem enablement
New licensing models
Easy to procure
Save by purchasing bundles
So lets bring it all together, 3 elements:
Industries Premier High Performance Fabric….
Via an Intelligent Services Orchestration that is open and easy to provision
With new licensing models…allowing our customer to procure solutions the way they would like to deploy them
These 3 elements come together via Synthesis to offer unprecedented value to our customer in solving various different user, network and application solutions.

48. Reference Architectures
Solving Customer Issues

49. Reference Architectures Device, Network, Applications
DDoS Protection
S/Gi Network Simplification
Security for Service Providers
Application Services
Migration to Cloud
DevOps
LTE
Roaming
Intelligent DNS Scale
Cloud Federation
Cloud
Bursting
Bill of Materials
Solution diagram(s)
Architecture diagram(s)
Product map diagram(s)
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We provide Device, Network and Application Services with one architecture for both SP and ENT
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50. Benefits of F5 Synthesis
Drive Business Value
Improve application availability, reliability, recoverability, performance, security, and velocity
Increase IT Capabilities
Common platform physical | virtual | cloud
Moving from managing devices to services
Reduce Costs
Lower TCO
Consolidate user, network, and application services
Future Proof
Programmability and orchestration
Open APIs, open standards
Application awareness
Improve Service Velocity. Business stakeholders today are highly sensitive to the time it takes to deliver new services and applications to the market. Trends and technology such as agile, DevOps, cloud and SDN have made great strides toward meeting service velocity requirements across development, operations and networking teams but have not adequately addressed key layer 4-7 services. F5 Synthesis fills that gap with an open and extensible framework that allows a growing ecosystem of technology partners to collaborate on comprehensive, integrated provisioning and orchestration systems that address velocity requirements across compute, network and application services.
F5 Synthesis reference architectures further accelerate time to market by enabling rapid service implementation for key security, cloud and mobility challenges with detailed architectural and implementation guidance,
Reduce Costs and Complexity. Standardizing on an F5 service delivery platform significantly reduces operational risk and improves business continuity through comprehensive management capabilities. Within the Synthesis architectural framework, organizations can centrally deploy manage and orchestrate application service topologies in a consistent manner across data center and cloud environments. This results in predictable and repeatable application deployments, thereby reducing the number of manual configurations and subsequent errors and instilling the confidence in automated deployments necessary to move forward with self-service initiatives that can further reduce operational costs. Because the F5 platforms (such as BIG-IP®, LineRate® and Traffix SDC) comprising the service fabric are able to be deployed on the customer’s choice of F5 hardware, any of the most popular hypervisors, or in the cloud, customers can pursue virtualization and cloud initiatives such as software defined data centers without sacrificing the reach or effectiveness of vital application services, security capabilities, and network reliability.
 Application-Driven Elasticity. F5 technologies (such as BIG-IP®, BIG-IQ™, ScaleN™, LineRate®, Traffix SDC, and Versafe) provide customers with a number of flexible deployment options, all built to scale. F5’s physical, virtual, and cloud-based solutions provide a flexible, high performance service fabric with core capabilities focused on application requirements for reliability and scale. F5 Synthesis enables customers to move from managing traditional reliability models to a strategic, service-based approach that focuses on application-level service provisioning, automation and orchestration that better aligns application services with business and user expectations.
 Programmability to Better Meet Business Needs – F5 Synthesis directly enables service automation, supports emerging application and network architectures, and enables new service creation through a policy-based, customizable approach. F5 customers can leverage powerful tools like F5’s iRules®, iControl, iCall, iApps, Groovy, and Node.js to configure and programmatically adjust their environments dynamically as well as extend the intelligence of business-focused decisions beyond existing service capabilities. Customers can create, deploy, modify, and extend services quickly to address variables impacting security, reliability and performance of applications and networks. With an emphasis on programmability and automation, F5 empowers organizations to align services with business and user expectations.
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51. F5 Synthesis Partner Ecosystem/
Network/SDN
System Integrators
Cloud
Security
Orchestration
Application
DevOps
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53. Solutions for an Application World.