F5 BIGIP Virtual Edition Local Traffic Manager 3 Gbps
Secure and optimize your application delivery with the F5 BIGIP Virtual Edition Local Traffic Manager, offering 3 Gbps throughput for enhanced performance and availability.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to advanced traffic management features for a defined period.
- Capacity: Unlocks 3 Gbps of throughput for managing and optimizing application traffic.
- Platform: Virtual Edition license applicable to your chosen hypervisor or cloud environment.
- Value: Ensures application uptime, performance, and security for business-critical services.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This F5 BIGIP Virtual Edition Local Traffic Manager license provides 3 Gbps of throughput, enabling advanced application delivery and traffic management capabilities for your virtualized or cloud-based environments. It ensures high availability, performance optimization, and security for your business-critical applications.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this license to deploy sophisticated load balancing, SSL offload, and application security features. It integrates into existing virtual infrastructure, offering enterprise-grade application services without the need for dedicated hardware appliances.
- Advanced Load Balancing: Distribute traffic intelligently across servers to prevent overload and ensure application responsiveness.
- SSL Offload: Decrypt and encrypt SSL traffic at the BIG-IP layer, freeing up server resources for application processing.
- Application Health Monitoring: Continuously check server health and automatically remove unhealthy servers from the traffic pool.
- Traffic Management: Optimize application performance through intelligent traffic steering and content manipulation.
- Virtual Edition Deployment: Flexible deployment on popular hypervisors and cloud platforms, reducing hardware dependency.
This F5 BIGIP VE LTM license empowers SMB and mid-market teams to achieve enterprise-level application availability and performance.
What This Enables
Enable High Availability for Business Applications
Enable teams to ensure critical business applications remain accessible to users even during peak traffic or server issues. Streamline traffic distribution to prevent single points of failure and maintain continuous operation.
virtualized server environments, cloud-hosted applications, multi-tier application architectures
Optimize Application Performance
Streamline application delivery by intelligently distributing user requests across available servers. Automate SSL offload to reduce server CPU load, thereby improving overall application response times and user experience.
web application deployments, API gateway services, microservices architectures
Enhance Application Security Posture
Automate the enforcement of security policies at the traffic management layer, protecting applications from common web threats. Enable teams to manage SSL certificates efficiently, ensuring secure communication channels.
public-facing web services, internal business applications, compliance-driven environments
Key Features
Local Traffic Management
Distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to ensure application availability and prevent overload.
SSL Offload
Frees up server resources by handling SSL encryption and decryption at the BIG-IP layer, improving application performance.
Application Health Monitoring
Continuously checks the health of backend servers and removes unhealthy ones from service, ensuring users only connect to active instances.
Virtual Edition Deployment
Allows deployment on common hypervisors and cloud platforms, offering flexibility and reducing hardware costs.
Subscription Licensing
Provides access to the latest features and support through a predictable billing model, aligning costs with usage.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Ensures high availability and performance for critical financial trading platforms, banking applications, and insurance policy management systems, meeting stringent uptime and security requirements.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Maintains continuous access to electronic health records (EHR) and patient management systems, crucial for regulatory compliance (e.g., HIPAA) and uninterrupted patient care.
Retail & Hospitality
Optimizes performance for e-commerce platforms and point-of-sale systems, especially during peak shopping seasons, to ensure smooth transactions and positive customer experiences.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Provides reliable traffic management for operational technology (OT) systems and supply chain applications, minimizing downtime that could disrupt production schedules.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is F5 BIGIP Virtual Edition Local Traffic Manager?
It is a software-based application delivery controller that provides advanced load balancing, traffic management, and security for applications deployed in virtualized or cloud environments. This license enables 3 Gbps of throughput.
What is the difference between hardware and virtual edition?
Virtual Edition (VE) runs as software on your existing hypervisor or cloud infrastructure, offering flexibility and cost savings compared to dedicated hardware appliances. The core functionality remains the same.
What does the 3 Gbps capacity refer to?
The 3 Gbps capacity indicates the maximum throughput of traffic that the BIG-IP LTM VE instance can process. This specification is crucial for matching the solution to your network's performance requirements.
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.