Latest internet and IP technology products: IP application switch - F5 Networks BIG-IP 5000 - Brief Article - Product Announcement

Communications News, Nov, 2001

SWITCH FEATURES INTEGRATED SSL PROCESSING and a high port density to reduce the total cost of ownership for the network infrastructure. The BIG-IP 5000 is designed to manage traffic for current and next-generation Web services and applications. The unit combines the benefits of BIG-IP's Layer 7 software capabilities, integrated SSL processing, and four gigabit and 24 Fast Ethernet ports, to provide simultaneous and convenient connectivity for a variety of devices, including firewalls, caches, Web servers, application servers, VPN gateways, SIP gateways and WAP gateways. The switch fabric operates at 8 Gbps in each direction. Each unit has dual Pentium III 1-GHz processors connected to the switch fabric and 1 GB of memory. Every base unit includes 100 transactions per second (tps) SSL capacity and is remotely upgradeable to 800 tps.--F5 Networks

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