F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition Better Bundle 5 Gbps
The F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition Better Bundle provides 5 Gbps of application delivery and security capacity for your virtualized environments, ensuring high availability and performance for your business applications.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to advanced application services for a defined period.
- Capacity: Enables 5 Gbps of traffic throughput for critical application delivery.
- Features: Unlocks essential BIG-IP features for security, performance, and availability.
- Platform: Designed for deployment on your chosen virtual infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition Better Bundle subscription provides 5 Gbps of traffic processing capacity, enabling essential application delivery and security services for your virtualized infrastructure. It includes core BIG-IP features designed to ensure application availability, performance, and security.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this licensing to manage and protect their business-critical applications running on virtual machines. It integrates into existing virtualized data centers, offering enterprise-grade capabilities without the need for dedicated hardware.
- Application Availability: Ensures your applications remain accessible to users even during peak traffic or hardware failures.
- Performance Optimization: Accelerates application response times and improves user experience.
- Security Enforcement: Protects applications from common web threats and ensures compliance.
- Traffic Management: Intelligently distributes traffic across servers to prevent overload and maintain stability.
- Virtual Deployment: Runs as software on your existing hypervisor, reducing hardware costs and complexity.
This BIG-IP Virtual Edition bundle offers a cost-effective way for growing businesses to access powerful application services and enhance their IT infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enhance Application Availability and Uptime
Enable teams to ensure their critical applications remain accessible to users at all times. This includes automatic failover and load balancing to prevent service disruptions during peak loads or component failures.
virtualized environments, business continuity planning, high availability requirements, multi-server deployments
Improve Application Performance and User Experience
Streamline application response times and enhance the end-user experience by optimizing traffic flow and accelerating content delivery. This leads to increased user satisfaction and productivity.
customer-facing applications, internal business tools, web application optimization, performance-sensitive workloads
Strengthen Application Security Posture
Automate the protection of web applications against common threats like DDoS attacks, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting. This helps maintain compliance and protect sensitive data.
compliance requirements, data protection, threat mitigation, secure web access
Key Features
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Intelligently directs application traffic to the most available server, ensuring optimal performance and uptime.
BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM)
Protects web applications from a wide range of threats, helping to meet compliance mandates and safeguard sensitive data.
BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM)
Improves application responsiveness and user experience through advanced caching and compression techniques.
Virtual Edition Deployment
Reduces hardware costs and simplifies deployment by running as software on your existing hypervisor.
Subscription Licensing
Provides access to the latest features and support through a predictable, recurring billing model.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and robust security to protect sensitive data and ensure continuous access to trading platforms and customer services, aligning with BIG-IP's capabilities.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers need to ensure patient portals, EMR systems, and telehealth services are always accessible and secure, meeting strict HIPAA compliance standards.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses rely on application performance for online sales, booking systems, and customer loyalty programs, especially during peak seasons.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operators use applications for supply chain management, production monitoring, and IoT data processing, requiring reliable performance and security for critical operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) is a software version of F5's BIG-IP platform that runs on standard x86 hardware or in virtualized environments. It provides application delivery and security services.
What does the 'Better Bundle' include?
The Better Bundle typically includes core BIG-IP features for traffic management, security, and acceleration, offering a balanced set of capabilities for many business needs.
What is the traffic capacity of this license?
This specific license enables up to 5 Gbps of traffic processing capacity for your applications.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
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.