F5 at a glance
F5 BIG-IP is the global standard Application Delivery Controller (ADC), trusted by large financial institutions, carriers and public agencies. It unifies L4/L7 load balancing (LTM), global DNS for disaster recovery (GTM), Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) and SSL-VPN (APM) on one platform, with iRules scripting for advanced traffic logic that cannot be expressed in point-and-click configurations.
As digital services scale exponentially, attacks at the application layer — OWASP Top 10, bot traffic, API abuse — have grown just as fast. Network firewalls alone cannot defend against L7 application attacks. F5 BIG-IP simultaneously guarantees service availability through load balancing and blocks real-time attacks with Advanced WAF, delivering "fast service" and "safe service" as one.
Expernet is an F5 Authorized Partner with extensive BIG-IP deployment experience in finance, public sector and large enterprises. We support hardware-to-virtual (BIG-IP VE) and cloud migrations, NGINX Plus modernization, multi-cloud ADC architecture, and iRules customization — backed by hands-on operations expertise.
Key Features
BIG-IP LTM (Load Balancing)
High-performance L4/L7 load balancing for web, API and database traffic.
Advanced WAF
Protection against OWASP Top 10, bots and API attacks with behavioral analytics.
BIG-IP DNS (GTM)
Intelligent global DNS for multi-site disaster recovery and geo-based routing.
BIG-IP APM (SSL-VPN)
Identity-aware remote access with SSO and MFA integration.
iRules Scripting
Customize traffic manipulation with TCL-based scripting for complex logic.
BIG-IP VE / NGINX
Virtual and container-native deployments for cloud and microservices.
Solution Architecture
F5 reference configuration