Packet Velocity ASIC 10 (PVA 10) delivers high volume line speed load balancing performed in a custom developed integrated circuit, enabling the BIG-IP 8400 to achieve industry best L4 performance. The BIG-IP 8400 also delivers the highest levels of SSL and compression performance over any other product in the market and includes integrated DoS attack protection. The BIG-IP 8400 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 8400 includes SSL hardware acceleration to offload costly SSL encryption. By accelerating key exchange and bulk encryption, the platform provides best-inmarket SSL performance capable of scaling up to 2.5 Gbps and over 22,000 TPS. F5’s optional HTTP Compression ASIC enables you to cost effectively offload traffic compression processing from your servers. See up to a 5x improvement in page load times and up to an 80% reduction in bandwidth utilization, while scaling up to 2 Gbps. A new type of fiber connection for networks provides up to 10 Gigabit duplex of traffic flow over a single point. Hot-swappable components reduce downtime and lowers TCO with hot-swappable fans and power, and accessible compact flash and hard drive. Remote management, multi-boot support, and simplified installation with superior management capabilities improve availability. At the heart of the BIG-IP 8400 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 8400, making it easy to upgrade with software add-on modules to meet your diverse and evolving distributed application goals.
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