F5 Products
F5 Products
BIG-IP Software – Hardware – Cloud – SaaS – Licensing & Pricing
Understanding all the F5® products and services available in the BIG-IP® product line can be a bit confusing, especially if you’re new to F5. We’ll do our best to help you understand F5 software modules, hardware, the F5 SaaS cloud offering dubbed F5 Distributed Cloud Services, their managed services offerings, and how F5 licenses and prices it all. When you’re ready to buy, WorldTech IT can quote and help you purchase F5 BIG-IP hardware, software, and subscriptions in the US and Canada.
Overview
F5 BIG-IP software, hardware, managed services, and cloud
The core technology behind F5 products is the BIG-IP Traffic Management Operating System® (TMOS) software. When people talk about modules like LTM®, GTM™, APM®, AFM™ and AWAF® (formerly ASM™), they are referring to logical software modules that run inside BIG-IP TMOS. They are not individual hardware modules — you do not buy another card to add a module, it is all logical licensing.
You can run the software on a dedicated hardware appliance or a virtual machine. F5 has also launched F5 Distributed Cloud Services, which uses BIG-IP technology alongside tech from recent acquisitions, like SHAPE’s machine learning for improved WAF learning and bot defense. NGINX also helps shape the future of F5’s cloud. BIG-IP technology also powered F5’s legacy Silverline® managed DDoS & WAF service, which reached end of life in June 2025 and has been succeeded by F5 Distributed Cloud Services.
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Software
BIG-IP software modules
Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) and Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM) are the core modules F5 built its application delivery architecture on. F5 now offers a whole product suite on top of those capabilities.
DNS
DNS (Global Traffic Manager)
Intelligent, secure, super fast name resolution.
LTM
Local Traffic Manager
The foundation of application delivery and load balancing.
AFM
Advanced Firewall Manager
Full blown ICSA certified firewall.
AWAF
Advanced Web Application Firewall
Go farther than just the OWASP top 10.
APM
Access Policy Manager
Context-aware, policy-based identity access controls for all devices.
SWG
Secure Web Gateway
URL categorization, filtering and security for outbound web traffic.
SSLO
SSL Orchestrator
Intelligent bulk ingress and egress SSL/TLS decryption.
BIG-IQ
Centralized Management
Centralized backups, analytics and config management.
Hardware datasheets
Our products
BIG-IP® rSeries® Hardware Platforms
5 datasheets
VELOS® Chassis and Blades
2 datasheets
BIG-IP® iSeries® Hardware Platforms
8 datasheetsBIG-IP 2000 iSeries (i2600 i2800)
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BIG-IP 4000 iSeries (i4600 i4800)
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BIG-IP 5000 iSeries (i5600 i5800)
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BIG-IP 7000 iSeries (i7600 i7800)
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BIG-IP 10000 iSeries (i10600 i10800)
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BIG-IP 11000-DS iSeries (i11600 ds i11800 ds)
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BIG-IP 11000 iSeries (i11600 i11800)
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BIG-IP 15000 iSeries (i15600 i15800)
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VIPRION® Chassis and Blades
5 datasheets
End Of Life Hardware Datasheets
11 datasheetsBIG-IP 1600 3600 3900
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BIG-IP 2000s 2200s
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BIG-IP 4000s 4200v
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BIG-IP 5000s 5050s 5250v 5200v
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BIG-IP 6400 6800
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BIG-IP 6900 8900
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BIG-IP 7055s 7050s 7000s 7255v 7250v 7200v ssl
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BIG-IP 10055s 10050s 10000s 10255v 10250v 10200v ssl 10350v n
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BIG-IP 11000 11050 12250v
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Herculon DDoS Hybrid Defender
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Herculon SSL Orchestrator
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Software
Virtual Editions
F5’s BIG-IP Virtual Edition is a great option when flexibility is needed in a deployment, allowing customers to spin up environments on demand. Whether it’s on your premises saving real estate & cooling costs, or in a cloud offering like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure Cloud, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the F5 VE can be a great option to deploy BIG-IP. You can run every BIG-IP module on F5 Virtual Editions, which can be deployed on all the leading hypervisors. The F5 VE is priced by throughput, and can be purchased for individual modules. See the F5 BIG-IP Virtual Editions datasheet.
Managed security
F5 Silverline Managed Security Services, now F5 Distributed Cloud
F5 offered pieces of BIG-IP as a cloud-based service through F5 Silverline, its managed DDoS protection and Web Application Firewall service. Silverline reached end of life in June 2025 and has been succeeded by F5 Distributed Cloud Services, which WorldTech IT sells, deploys and supports.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask us first
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What makes WorldTech IT different from F5 Professional Services directly?
WorldTech IT is an F5 Platinum Partner and Guardian Professional Services Partner. We deliver the same level of certified expertise, but with faster response times, tailored project scopes, and flexible engagement models including Always-On support.
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Do you only work with existing F5 customers?
No. We frequently help organizations migrating from Citrix ADC, A10 or AWS ELB to F5. Our engineers handle both greenfield deployments and brownfield integrations across on-prem and cloud environments.
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Can you manage my F5 devices after the project is done?
Yes. Our Always-On and Managed Services programs provide continuous monitoring, lifecycle management and 24×7×365 support, so you can offload operational overhead while maintaining control.
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Do you support both BIG-IP and F5 Distributed Cloud (XC)?
Absolutely. We design, deploy and automate traditional BIG-IP appliances as well as F5 Distributed Cloud Services for multi-cloud networking, security and app delivery.
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How do I get started?
You can engage us for a one-time health check, migration assessment or full project delivery. Contact WorldTech IT to schedule a scoping call and see how our F5-certified architects can help optimize your environment.
