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 |
SDN services are automatically included with all iSeries appliances. BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM) is end-of-sale.