Rackspace Managed F5 BIG-IP

Simplify your cloud journey. Move your IT workloads to Rackspace^®, and run them with fully-managed F5^® BIG-IP application delivery controllers (ADCs) that help deliver the speed, high availability and security required for your business-critical applications. Our F5-certified network engineers have years of experience custom configuring F5 BIG-IP solutions to meet the business needs of our customers. Rely on our networking and security experts, available 24x7x365, to fully-manage your F5 BIG-IP solutions, so you can get back to focusing on your core business.

Application Delivery

We’ll configure your network to distribute traffic across your dedicated and cloud servers, geographic regions and data centers — so you can minimize bottlenecks and deliver content faster.

Cloud Readiness

We’ll help protect your business-critical applications from attacks using a combination of hardware-based protection and advanced security software. Our network security experts can create a custom solution to help reduce vulnerabilities — so you can focus on your core business.

Application Security

We’ll help secure your applications and data with F5 Networks’ advanced hardware and software security measures, such as BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager. All of the iSeries platforms include forward secrecy/elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) encryption to address privacy concerns and the enormous growth in encrypted traffic, and we also offer options for FIPS SSL. Our network security experts can create a custom solution to help offload your SSL encryption traffic and reduce vulnerabilities — so you can focus on your core business.

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BIG-IP Software

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Distribute traffic across dedicated and cloud servers, and offload SSL processing from servers to improve the speed of content delivery.

BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)

Site and load management across multiple geographic regions and data center locations directs users to the best-performing data center to optimize app performance.

BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)

A stateful, ICSA Labs Certified full-proxy network firewall to help protect against L3-L7 threats.

BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

Secures, simplifies and protects user access to apps and data while delivering the most scalable ICSA Labs Certified access gateway on the market.

BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM)

Overcomes WAN latency, maximizes server capacity and speeds application response times.

Big-IP Hardware

Our certified F5 network engineers will custom-configure and deploy F5 BIG-IP hardware to meet your networking requirements. Right-sized to your environment, you can choose the following devices which range from 5 Gbps to 35 Gbps of layer 7 throughput. Additional hardware options, including options with FIPS SSL, may be available upon request, please speak with your account representative to learn more.

Hardware Platform	2000s, 2200s	Standard Series 5200v series	7200v series	i2600, i2800	iSeries i4800	i5800
Throughput (L4/L7)	5 Gbps	30 Gbps / 15 Gbps	40 Gbps / 20 Gbps	10 Gbps	20 Gbps	60 Gbps / 35 Gbps
Requests per second (L4 HTTP/ L7)	550k/ 212k, 1.1M/ 425k	7M/ 1.5M	7M/ 1.6M	600k/ 350k, 750k	2M/ 1.1M	12M/1.8M
Maximum L4 Concurrent Conections	5M	24M	24M	14M	28M	40M
Maximum SSL/ TLS Offload (TPS)	RSA: 2k, 4k, (2K Keys) ECC: n/a Bulk Encryption: 4 Gbps	RSA: 21k (2K Keys) ECC: n/a Bulk Encryption: 12 Gbps	RSA: 25k (2K Keys) ECC: n/a Bulk Encryption: 18 Gbps FIPS SSL Option Available	RSA: 2.4k, 4.3k, (2K Keys) ECC¹: 2.1k, 3.5k (ECDSA P-256) Bulk Encryption: 8 Gbps	RSA: 20k (2K Keys) ECC¹: 10k (ECDSA P-256) Bulk Encryption: 15 Gbps	RSA: 35k (2K Keys) ECC¹: 20k (ECDSA P-256) Bulk Encryption: 20 Gbps
Memory	8 GB	32 GB	32 GB	16 GB DDR4	32 GB DDR4	48 GB DDR4

Table depicts manufacturer published maximum performance. 1. ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256 cipher string tested.

Features and Services

Each F5 deployment comes with the following features and service options. Our certified network engineers have experience custom-configuring over 6,000 ADCs worldwide. And our network security teams proactively monitor and vet security vulnerabilities and apply critical supplier software patches, around the clock.

Managed Service Level		Top Features
1-Hour Hardware Replacement		L4-L7 intelligent local traffic management
100% Network Uptime Guarantee		SSL acceleration
Fanatical Support®, 24x7x365		Support for IPv4 and IPv6 network traffic
Managed backup with two weeks of onsite retention		Health monitoring
Hardware monitoring		Hardware-based SYN Flood & DDoS attack protection
Availability monitoring		Resource cloaking
File system monitoring		Fast caching
Power redundancy		iRules programmability