F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition: AFM High Performance VE
The F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition AFM High Performance VE license provides advanced application security and traffic management capabilities for your critical business infrastructure.
- Access to Advanced Security: Unlock next-generation firewall, DDoS mitigation, and WAF capabilities to protect against sophisticated threats.
- Optimized Performance: Ensure high-throughput traffic processing and application availability with 24 vCPUs dedicated to security functions.
- Flexible Deployment: Run F5's industry-leading security services on your chosen virtualized infrastructure, adapting to your specific environment.
- Continuous Operation: Maintain compliance and business continuity with up-to-date threat intelligence and ongoing software updates.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This subscription license enables the F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) with the Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) module configured for high performance, utilizing 24 vCPUs. It provides robust application security features, including advanced threat protection, DDoS mitigation, and granular traffic control, ensuring the availability and integrity of your business applications.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this license to deploy powerful security controls within their virtualized data centers or cloud environments. It integrates directly into their existing network infrastructure, safeguarding internal and external facing applications without requiring dedicated hardware appliances.
- Advanced Threat Protection: Defend against a wide range of application-layer attacks, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and zero-day exploits.
- DDoS Mitigation: Protect against volumetric and application-specific Distributed Denial of Service attacks to maintain service availability.
- High Performance: Engineered for demanding environments with 24 vCPUs, ensuring rapid threat analysis and traffic processing.
- Virtual Edition Flexibility: Deploy on popular hypervisors and cloud platforms, offering agility and cost-effectiveness.
- Centralized Management: Simplify security policy management and monitoring through a unified interface.
This F5 BIG-IP VE AFM license empowers SMB and mid-market teams to achieve enterprise-grade application security and performance without the associated hardware costs.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Application Security
Enable teams to deploy next-generation firewall capabilities and advanced threat protection for critical business applications. Streamline the defense against application-layer attacks and zero-day exploits to maintain service integrity.
virtualized data centers, private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud environments, multi-tier application architectures
Mitigate Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Automate the protection against volumetric and application-specific DDoS attacks that threaten service availability. Protect your business operations from disruption and maintain a consistent user experience for customers and employees.
public-facing web services, critical internal applications, high-traffic e-commerce platforms, remote access portals
Enhance Network Performance and Control
Streamline traffic management and ensure high-throughput processing for demanding application workloads. Gain granular control over network traffic to optimize performance and enforce security policies effectively.
high-volume transaction processing, real-time data services, latency-sensitive applications, secure API gateways
Key Features
Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
Provides Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic inspection and control to protect against sophisticated network and application attacks.
High Performance VE (24 vCPUs)
Delivers significant processing power for demanding security tasks, ensuring rapid threat analysis and high throughput in virtual environments.
DDoS Mitigation
Protects applications and services from volumetric and application-specific denial-of-service attacks, ensuring continuous availability.
Virtual Edition Deployment
Offers flexibility to deploy on various hypervisors and cloud platforms, reducing hardware costs and simplifying infrastructure management.
Subscription Licensing
Provides access to the latest features, security updates, and ongoing support, ensuring your security posture remains current.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires robust security to protect sensitive financial data and maintain compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making advanced threat protection and DDoS mitigation essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Protecting patient data (PHI) is critical, necessitating strong security controls to meet HIPAA compliance and defend against cyber threats targeting healthcare systems.
Retail & Hospitality
Businesses in this sector handle large volumes of customer data and transactions, requiring high availability and security to prevent service disruptions and protect payment card information (PCI DSS).
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies must secure critical infrastructure and sensitive citizen data, often facing advanced persistent threats and requiring solutions that meet stringent security standards and compliance mandates.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition AFM High Performance VE?
It is a software license that enables advanced security features, including a next-generation firewall and DDoS protection, on a virtual machine. The 'High Performance' designation with 24 vCPUs indicates a powerful configuration for demanding environments.
What kind of threats does this license protect against?
This license protects against a wide range of threats, including application-layer attacks (like SQL injection and XSS), zero-day exploits, and various forms of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Can this be deployed in a cloud environment?
Yes, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is designed for deployment on major cloud platforms and popular hypervisors, offering flexibility for hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
High — engineer-led
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.