F5 AI Gateway - Understanding & Features

F5 AI Gateway is the perfect solution for F5 customers who want to optimize AI workload performance, secure AI interactions, and simplify AI adoption—reducing costs and saving hundreds of integration hours with the expertise of WorldTech IT.

F5 AI Gateway Overview

WorldTech IT, an official F5 AI Gateway Design Partner, is working with F5 to deliver customized deployments of F5 AI Gateway, the solution is now available for early release.

As an F5 Platinum Partner and F5 GUARDIAN Professional Services Partner, WorldTech IT specializes in supporting, designing, & deploying integration solutions around F5 Networks, including NGINX, BIG-IP, and Distributed Cloud.

By integrating F5’s innovative AI Gateway through our professional services, we accelerate the deployment, optimization, and security of your Large Language Model (LLM) applications across public clouds, private cloud platforms, and on-premises data centers.

F5 AI Gateway — What is it?

An AI Gateway, also known as an LLM gateway, is a centralized platform that manages, orchestrates, and optimizes the interaction between various AI services, data sources, and user-facing applications. It acts as a bridge, ensuring traffic management and seamless communication between on-premises systems, cloud-based AI models, edge devices, and APIs.

The F5 AI Gateway enables organizations to confidently deploy AI applications anywhere. Easily ensure security, scalability, and reliability for your AI implementation. AI Gateway inspects inbound prompts and outbound responses to prevent unexpected outcomes or critical data leakage. Customizable observation, protection, and management of AI interactions help improve the usability of AI applications and simplify compliance.

F5 AI Gateway’s Key Benefits

Maximize AI Applications while Mitigating Risks with F5’s AI Gateway

Secure Your AI Apps

Detect and mitigate risks listed in the OWASP LLM Top 10. Identify and block inbound attacks, such as prompt injection and insecure output handling, to prevent sensitive information leaks and model theft.

Optimize AI Interactions

Route traffic and rate-limit local and third-party language models to improve performance, maintain availability, and control costs.

AI Security Anywhere

Automate deployment onto Kubernetes instances anywhere to enable fast building of security and performance services.

Product Overview

Ways to Deploy F5 AI Gateway

F5 Al Gateway Secures and Optimizes your Al Apps across ANY Cloud, Anywhere

F5 Al Gateway leverages Distributed Cloud (XC) and Kubernetes to enable unparalleled flexibility in deploying and managing Al applications across public clouds, private clouds, on-premises, and edge environments. With centralized management via a Saas-based console, organizations can achieve uncompromising security, observability, and optimization, no matter where their Al workloads are hosted.

There are three modes of consuming F5’s AI Gateway:

Public Cloud

Observe and protect your AI SLM and LLM application workloads hosted on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform via Distributed Cloud (XC). Integrates with NGINX.

On-Premise (Data Center & Edge)

Monitor and secure your AI SLM and LLM application workloads at data centers and edge sites with Distributed Cloud (XC) services or ADC services via NGINX and BIG-IP.

Private Cloud

Protect and observe your AI SLM and LLM app workloads hosted in private clouds or co-location facilities with Distributed Cloud (XC) services or ADC services via NGINX and BIG-IP.

Bring your own Kubernetes

AI Gateway can be deployed across any environment, public & private clouds, and on-premises & edge environments by leveraging existing managed container platform deployments and protecting and connecting them to the F5 global network via Distributed Cloud (XC).

Key Features of F5 AI Gateway

The F5 AI Gateway Module is a centralized platform that manages, orchestrates, and optimizes the interaction between various AI services, data sources, and user-facing applications. It acts as a bridge, ensuring seamless communication between on-premises systems, cloud-based AI models, edge devices, and APIs.

Key Features of the F5 AI Gateway Module include:

Observability, Monitoring, & Analytics

Activity Logging: Gain a detailed view of user interactions with your AI models. Understand user behavior and activity patterns to refine your AI-driven applications, ensuring they meet both performance and security requirements.
Transaction Logging: Track every transaction within the AI environment, capturing critical data points to support security audits, compliance, and performance reviews. This transparent record helps you identify irregularities and address them promptly.
Watermarking and Traceability: Embed unique watermarks into AI-generated responses to trace back to the AI gateway. This capability, inspired by advanced stenography, allows you to decorate responses with identifiable tags, ensuring full traceability and accountability across your AI deployments.
Automatic Language Detection: Enhance security and user experience with automatic language detection, ensuring AI models respond accurately and appropriately based on language context.
Performance Metrics: Gain insights into AI model performance, including processing speeds, response accuracy, and overall efficiency. Identify optimization opportunities and align AI performance with organizational KPIs.
Feedback Mechanisms: Collect and analyze user feedback on AI interactions to inform improvements and refine AI model responses.

Performance Optimization

Latency Optimization: Minimize response delays, allowing AI models to deliver faster, more responsive interactions.
Load Balancing: Distribute workloads efficiently across backend resources, ensuring optimal performance and preventing overload. Manage high-traffic scenarios, maintaining system resilience and availability.
Caching: Improve response times with intelligent caching, allowing frequently used data to be retrieved quickly without reprocessing. This feature is crucial for delivering consistent performance, especially for frequently accessed prompts.

Governance

Encryption: Protect sensitive data in transit and at rest with industry-standard encryption protocols. Encryption safeguards data integrity, ensuring that confidential information remains secure throughout AI processing.
Authentication: Implement advanced authentication mechanisms to validate user identity before granting access to AI resources. These measures help restrict access and prevent unauthorized use of AI models and data to help meet organizational governance requirements.
Rate Limiting: Control the frequency and volume of AI interactions to prevent system strain and mitigate potential abuse. Rate limiting enhances operational efficiency while preserving resources.
Compliance Protocols: Maintain adherence to regulatory frameworks with built-in compliance features, including GDPR and HIPAA. The AI Gateway Solution helps organizations stay compliant with data privacy laws, ensuring responsible AI usage across sectors.

Prompt Security

Multi-View Analysis: The AI Gateway provides multiple vantage points for prompt security, enabling your organization to apply custom security protocols across different models or user levels.
Advanced Prompt Injection Prevention: Safeguard against unauthorized prompt injections with sophisticated defenses, ensuring your AI models respond only to authorized and validated requests.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Protect sensitive information with advanced DLP capabilities tailored for AI environments. This feature identifies and mitigates potential leaks of confidential data, securing both user data and organizational assets.
Response Sanitization and PII Detection: Automatically sanitize AI-generated responses, removing or masking any personally identifiable information (PII) to comply with privacy regulations and maintain data integrity.
Access Controls: Define and enforce access policies at granular levels, allowing only authorized users to engage with specific AI functions. Access controls protect sensitive data and help meet organizational governance requirements.

Cost Control & Intelligent Prompt Steering

Optimized Backend Service Utilization: Selectively route prompts to appropriate backend AI services based on need, privilege level, and seniority, minimizing costs while maximizing efficiency and relevance.
Intelligent Prompt Steering and Task Matching: Ensure that every prompt is handled by the model best suited for the job, using intelligent steering to match tasks with the ideal backend AI model.
Prompt Decoration: Enhance the clarity and effectiveness of prompts by structuring and decorating them appropriately. This helps reduce ambiguity, making it easier for AI models to deliver accurate responses.
Response Minimization: Keep responses concise by limiting word count and removing unnecessary details, which helps reduce processing load while ensuring the output remains relevant and actionable.

In essence, F5’s AI Gateway streamlines the deployment and operation of AI solutions, enabling businesses to leverage diverse AI capabilities without managing multiple interfaces and integrations. It promotes efficient use of resources, improves security, and provides agility in adapting AI strategies.

Verticals

WorldTech IT offers enterprise-class F5 professional services, consulting, and support to help enterprises across numerous industry verticals deploy AI applications that span across multiple public and private clouds and edge sites—without having to rebuild their software infrastructure.

Financial Services: Protect customer data in AI-powered financial forecasting.
Healthcare: Secure patient data privacy, streamline diagnostics & imaging processes prone to human error, and safeguard insurance claims processing and billing with AI data security for medical applications.
Retail: Guard customer behavior analytics with robust access controls.
Government: Maintain regulatory compliance for public sector AI applications.

Broad Platform Support and Integrations for F5 AI Gateway

Platform and Cloud provider support

Deploy on leading cloud platforms for scalable access to AI apps on public cloud, private cloud platforms, or on-premises data centers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
Oracle Cloud
In Cloud (in F5 platform or your existing platform)
On-premises (NGINX, BIG-IP Next)
Contact us to schedule a scoping call to assess how F5 AI Gateway can run in your environment

Large Language Models Supported

F5 AI Gateway supports leading AI model platforms to secure application interactions

Anthropic
ChatGPT
Ollama
Azure AI Studio

Observability and SIEM/SOAR Support

OpenTelemetry is the industry standard tool for visibility and reporting for any SIEM, anywhere.

OpenTelementry

How does WorldTech IT Help?

WorldTech IT is here to support your journey toward a secure, AI-enabled future. As a trusted F5 partner, we bring expertise, insight, and reliable service to every engagement.

There are many services WorldTech IT provides to deploy F5 AI Gateway:

GPT-in-a-Box | WorldTech IT’s Fully-Managed AI Gateway Solution – Powered by AI Gateway

GPT-in-a-Box is a solution developed by WorldTech IT that makes deploying F5’s AI Gateway super easy. There is no need to worry about setting up a front end, managing a Kubernetes deployment, or which hardware you will deploy the AI Gateway on. You heard that correctly: WorldTech IT is releasing specialized, tuned hardware to run the AI Gateway, with inferencing acceleration options available. GPT-in-a-Box is a fully managed service backed by WorldTech IT’s North America-based rock-solid 24x7x365 support.

If you’re not interested in a fully managed AI Gateway solution, you can always leverage WorldTech IT for professional services to architect, implement, and maintain F5’s AI Gateway within your environments.

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Other WorldTech IT Professional Services to Architect, Implement and Maintain F5 AI Gateway

WorldTech IT Professional Services

WorldTech IT is the leader in enterprise-class Professional Services Consulting & Support for F5^® Solutions. We support all the popular modules within BIG-IP^®. Whether you’re looking for help on-premise or in any of the popular clouds like AWS, Azure, and GCP – WorldTech IT brings more experience, depth of engineering bench, and focus on F5 technology than any other consulting company. Contact us today to purchase and deploy F5 AI Gateway through BIG-IP via ADC services.

WorldTech IT’s Always-On Program: a Powerful optional Add-on to our F5 Professional Services

WorldTech IT’s F5 Always-On program offers comprehensive & sophisticated F5 support, ongoing professional services, maintenance, monitoring, emergency response, and 24 x 7 x 365 access to our team of F5-certified engineers. Current Always-On members have the option to use their credits in exchange for F5 AI Gateway integration services by WorldTech IT. Members interested are encouraged to submit a ticket through the Always-On portal or reach out to their F5 + WorldTech IT representative. Explore the F5 Always-On program now and discover what’s included.

WorldTech IT’s F5 Distributed Cloud Services

F5 Distributed Cloud Services are SaaS-based security, networking, and application management services that can be deployed across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge locations. WorldTech IT can assist in deploying and maintaining your Cloud Services through F5. The majority of organizations still need the expertise to design and maintain a solution specific to their needs. With so many services available, WorldTech IT can also assist in nailing down exactly what you require. Contact us today to purchase and deploy F5 AI Gateway on the cloud through Distributed Cloud Services.

WorldTech IT’s NGINX Plus Services

We’ll do the Kubernetes work for you. If you need expert assistance with NGINX®—WorldTech IT offers enterprise-class NGINX® and NGINX Plus® Professional Services / Consulting. Our engineers combine extensive experience in the application delivery and security space with broad expertise in the Linux and open-source community.

F5’s AI Gateway is an integral part of our AI strategy. With this technology, our customers are able to develop both internal and external-facing AI applications capable of handling a surge in queries without degradation to site and application performance. F5 brings leading app security and delivery capabilities to accelerate AI experiences at scale. With F5 AI Gateway, semantic caching and intelligent traffic routing alone represent significant cost savings, and the unification of F5 services will save customers hundreds of hours of integration work.
Austin Geraci, CTO of WorldTech IT

Conclusion

Buy F5 AI Gateway with WorldTech IT and Future-proof Your AI Deployments
As AI and machine learning reshape industries, securing these technologies is essential. The F5 AI Gateway Solution with WorldTech IT delivers industry-leading AI security solutions to protect data, secure APIs, and support compliance across distributed networks.

As an F5 Unity Platinum Partner, WorldTech IT provides the expertise required to ensure secure AI deployments. With in-depth knowledge of data protection for AI and machine learning security, our team enables seamless integration to defend against modern cyber threats. Together, we’ll build a resilient, future-proof security strategy.

Protect Your AI with WorldTech IT