F5 Rapid Start System
A cloud-native, full stack software platform delivering high performance, low latency app services for demanding workloads
F5 Rapid Start System for Data Center, N6/Gi-LAN, and Edge
F5 Rapid Start System protects apps and infrastructure against malicious threats using the BIG-IP security suite, including BIG-IP WAF, BIG-IP AFM and more. Performance of resource-intensive security and traffic management functions such as DDoS mitigation SSL/TLS cryptoprocessing and CGNAT are augmented using the latest hardware offload technologies—including FPGAs and SmartNICs.
- BIG-IP Product Family L4-L7 Security Suite Deploy industry-leading app services, including BIG-IP LTM, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP APM, BIG-IP AFM, BIG-IP Advanced WAF, BIG-IP CGNAT and BIG-IP PEM
- Boost Performance via Hardware Offload Employ hardware offload to improve performance on CPU-intensive functions like DDoS mitigation and SSL/TLS crypto processing
- Reduce Latency with SmartNIC SmartNIC offload achieves ultra-low (<5μs) latency to accelerate live video streaming, financial trading transactions, and more
Product Overview
High-Performance Software
F5 Rapid Start System is a production-ready, full-stack solution with BIG-IP VE software, enterprise hypervisor, COTS server, SmartNIC cards, and FPGAs. F5 Rapid Start System handles data throughput of up to 300Gbps with industry-leading software performance to support demanding application environments.
Traffic Management
Load balancing, traffic steering, programmatic traffic manipulation, and policy enforcement ensures high availability of applications for end users
BIG-IP CGNAT
Transparently provides IPv4 and IPv6 network address translation at scale in addition to high-speed logging capabilities
Network Firewall and DDoS—BIG-IP AFM
Protect data center and edge networks against incoming threats, including the most massive and complex DDoS attacks
SSL/TLS Cryptoprocessing
Decrypt and gain visibility into all encrypted traffic to identify and defend against malicious payloads
Core Capabilities
Accelerate deployment, boost performance, and reduce latency with the F5 Rapid Start System.
SmartNIC offload
Boost performance on key functions with smartNICs
Crypto-offload—Intel QAT
Improve cryptographic processing up to 200%
Ultra-low latency
Shorten packet processing time to 3–5 microseconds
Exceptional performance
Up to 300Gbps of L4 throughput in a 1U appliance
BIG-IP suite support
Easily deploy the BIG-IP product family.
Fully automatable
Easy setup with F5 BIG-IP Automation Toolchain APIs
Centralized management
Visibility and centralized management with BIG-IQ
Platform Support and Integrations
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Server vendor partner
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Hypervisor partner
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Hardware offload component integrations
Server vendor partner
Dell PowerEdge servers form the foundation of F5 Rapid Start System, providing the computational resources required to achieve optimal BIG-IP VE performance.
Hypervisor partner
F5 Rapid Start System is hosted on a KVM hypervisor that has been configured for high performance by F5 experts.
Hardware offload component integrations
Intel SmartNICs and Quick Assist Technology (QAT) are integrated within F5 Rapid Start System enabling offloading of resource intensive functions from BIG-IP VE to boost system performance
Resources
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Consolidating and virtualizing your S/Gi-LAN/N6 services can result in up to a 60% reduction in CapEx and OpEx while boosting performance and lowering latency
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