The F5® Good, Better, and Best licenses are a huge step forward for F5 in bundling their BIG-IP® modules to deliver the most complete, and technically advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC) in the industry. Understanding which modules are included in each is important – below is a breakdown of which modules come with each F5 license bundle, including their features and capabilities:
F5 Good Better Best
| BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ | |||
| Load balancing and monitoring | |||
| Application visibility and monitoring | |||
| L7 intelligent traffic management | |||
| Core protocol optimization (HTTP, TCP, HTTP/2, SSL) | |||
| SSL proxy and services | |||
| IPv6 support | |||
| Programmability (iRules®, iCall®, iControl®, iApps®) | |||
| ScaleN™ (on-demand scaling of performance and capacity) | |||
| BIG-IP® APM® Lite (user authentication, SSL VPN for 10 concurrent users) | |||
| SYN flood DDoS protection | |||
| Software Services | |||
| Advanced routing (BGP, RIP, OSPF, ISIS, BFD) | |||
| BIG-IP® DNS | |||
| Global server load balancing | |||
| DNS services | |||
| Real-time DNSSEC solution | |||
| Global application high availability | |||
| Geolocation | |||
| DNS DDoS attack prevention | |||
| BIG-IP® Advanced Firewall Manager™ | |||
| High performance ICSA firewall | |||
| Network DDoS protection | |||
| Application-centric firewall policies | |||
| Protocol anomaly detection | |||
| BIG-IP® BIG-IP Application Security Manager® | |||
| PCI-compliant web application firewall | |||
| Web scraping prevention | |||
| Integrated XML firewall | |||
| Violation correlation and incident grouping | |||
| Application DDoS protection | |||
| BIG-IP® Access Policy Manager® | |||
| 500 concurrent user sessions; scalable up to 200,000 | |||
| BYOD enablement | |||
| Full proxy for VDI (Citrix, VMware) | |||
| Single sign-on enhancements (Identity federation with SAML 2.0) | |||
| BIG-IP® Advanced Web Application Firewall (AWAF) formerly known as Application Security Manager (ASM) | |||
| PCI-compliant web application firewall | |||
| Anti-Bot Defense against Credential Stuffing | |||
| L7 DDos & Behavioral DoS | |||
| Continuous Attack Signature updates | |||
| OWASP Compliance Dashboard | |||
| Data Safe | |||
| Web scraping prevention | |||
| Integrated XML firewall | |||
| Violation correlation and incident grouping | |||
| Application DDoS protectionBIG-IP® Access Policy Manager® 500 concurrent user sessions; scalable up to 200,000 BYOD enablement Full proxy for VDI (Citrix, VMware) Single sign-on enhancements (identity federation with SAML 2.0 |
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SDN services are automatically included with all iSeries appliances. BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM) is end-of-sale.
