Scaling databases requires sophisticated application traffic management. Using Virtual IP’s and Pools, the BIG-IP product can balance and direct database traffic. Firewall applications and appliances increases network security and resource availability while providing administrators a flexible traffic management tool. Hardware-based traffic management technologies offer significant advantages over software only solutions for enterprise application infrastructure deployment. Application traffic management products increase existing web server efficiency by optimizing, managing and securing global and local area traffic. Recent News Technology Spotlight Why F5? Technology Spotlight F5 believes that applications should just work. People rely on business applications that are delivered by networks. These applications run everything from e-mail to Web pages to customer orders. For a business to succeed, applications need to work. They need to be secure, they need to be fast, and they need to always be available. But as businesses try to do more with their applications, complexity increases -- often to the point that networks and applications stop working. Top of Page