BIG-IP 8800 Application Switch, The Fastest 10 Gbps Application Delivery Platform Available Clustered multiprocessing enables the BIG-IP 8800 to deliver the highest levels of Layer 7 and SSL throughput, SSL transactions per second and compression performance over any other product in the market. The BIG‑IP 8800 utilizes symmetric multiprocessing across four processor cores. This technology allows BIG-IP performance to scale to four times the level of a single processor system. Apart from the main processing cores, the 8800 includes a Packet Velocity ASIC (PVA 10) that delivers high volume, line speed, and L4 and DoS processing in a custom developed integrated circuit, enabling the BIG-IP 8800 to achieve industry best L4 and L7 performance with integrated DoS attack protection. The BIG-IP 8800 Application Switch outperforms every other product on the market, supporting 10 Gbps of traffic throughput and providing a flexible platform that can scale to meet next-generation data center design. The BIG-IP 8800 includes SSL hardware acceleration to offload costly SSL encryption. By accelerating key exchange and bulk encryption, the platform provides best-in-market SSL performance capable of scaling up to 6 Gbps throughput and over 48,000 TPS. F5’s optional HTTP Compression license enables you to cost effectively offload traffic compression processing from your servers. This greatly improves page load times and reduces bandwidth utilization while scaling up to 6 Gbps throughtput. The 8800 platform’s new compression hardware delivers software level compression ratios but at blazing throughput levels that only dedicated hardware can achieve. A new type of fiber connection (XFP 10 Gbps Optical) for networks supports a full 10 Gigabit of duplex traffic over a single interface. Hot-swappable components reduce downtime and lower TCO with hot-swappable fans and an accessible compact flash and hard drive. Remote management, multi-boot support, USB support, and simplified installation with superior management capabilities improve availability. At the heart of the BIG-IP 8800 is the TMOS architecture, an intelligent, modular, and scalable foundation for quickly adapting to future business challenges and streamlining management tasks. TMOS enhances every function riding on top of the BIG-IP 8800, making it easy to upgrade with software add-on modules to meet your diverse and evolving distributed application goals. Industry-first symmetric multi-processor, multi-core support allows the clustering of processors so that workload can be spread evenly among them. This improves performance across all functions (TPS, iRules, monitors, SSL, Compression, etc.) through the dynamic sharing of processors while evenly distributing workloads in real-time.
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