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F5 ADC System
F5 appliances simplify your network and reduce TCO by offloading servers, providing a
consistent set of comprehensive application services, and consolidating devices – saving
management, power, space, and cooling costs in the data center. The massive performance
and scalability of the new F5 rSeries appliance reduces the number of ADCs needed to
deliver even the most demanding applications. By offloading computationally intense
processes, you can significantly reduce the number of application servers needed.
U N M AT C H E D P E R F O R M A N C E F O R C R I T I C A L A P P L I C AT I O N S
T H E A D VA N TA G E S O F A N F 5 A D C S Y S T E M
The F5 rSeries platform leverages a modern hardware and software design to balance the
need for performance, scalability, agility and automation. The F5® TMOS® operating system
provides total visibility, flexibility, and control across all application delivery services. With
TMOS, organizations can intelligently adapt to the diverse and evolving requirements of
applications and networks.
F5 rSeries also leverages a new architecture and hardware with larger, field-programmable
gate arrays (FPGAs) and the latest Intel® processing for CPU. The newer generation
Intel chipsets provide more modern SSL cipher support and can offload elliptical curve
cryptography (ECC) based ciphers in hardware. FPGA technology, tightly integrated with the
next-generation F5 operating system technology and platform layer software, enables high-
performance capabilities.
F5 ADC System 2
rSeries includes:
• Protection from more than 100 attack vectors, such as denial-of-service (DoS) and
DDoS attacks, hardware detection, and mitigation.
Other unique or patented hardware and software innovations equip the platform with
unmatched capabilities, including:
• Industry leading encryption up to 140K TPS P-256 from increase in SSL FPGAs from
hardware acceleration of ECC ciphers.
• Cost-effective offload of traffic compression processing improves page load times and
reduces bandwidth utilization from maximum hardware compression up to 90 Gbps, a
125% increase over previous platforms.
• Efficiency features include 80 Plus Platinum certified power supplies as well as front
panel touchscreen LCD management, remote boot and multi-boot support, and
USB support.
G A I N F L E X I B I L I T Y W I T H M U LT I - T E N A N C Y
F5 ADC System 3
Traditionally, F5’s Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing (vCMP) technology gave organizations
a virtualization strategy for application delivery and isolating multi-tenant environments
on F5 hardware platforms. F5 rSeries continues to support—and improve on—the vCMP
technology that benefits many customers. F5 rSeries supports flexible, multi-tenancy options
across system resources and enables even more multi-tenancy density than was previously
achievable with BIG-IP® iSeries®. This allows customers to achieve greater ROI on their new
F5 hardware investments by allocating system resources more effectively.
A M O D E R N P L AT F O R M A R C H I T E C T U R E D E S I G N
F5 rSeries relies on a Kubernetes-based platform layer that’s tightly integrated with F5’s
TMOS software, aligning with your modern architecture plans. Going to a microservice-based
platform layer allows rSeries to provide new and exciting features that were not possible
in previous generations of F5® BIG-IP® platforms. This layer powers the new platform and
is abstracted through F5OS interfaces so you can manage it via familiar CLI, GUI, and API
interfaces. This means you can simultaneously run tenants with the current generation of
BIG‑IP software with more modern microservice-based BIG-IP software that will be introduced
in the future.
F5 rSeries is a flexible system that allows you to run both current and future versions of
BIG‑IP, making it easier to use multiple versions of BIG-IP on the same platform. rSeries is
more aligned to modern architectures, which allows you to future-proof your deployments
and environments.
Figure 1: F5 rSeries Architecture Existing BIG-IP application services software BIG-IP Next application services software
F5 ADC System 4
P U R P O S E - B U I LT F O R A U T O M AT I O N
With the demands of your business, you’re under pressure to deploy and scale application
services faster than ever before. Now, you don’t need to implement software-only
infrastructure to take advantage of CI/CD toolset integration, declarative APIs, and telemetry-
based implementations. With its API-first architecture, F5 rSeries provides a fully automatable
system that can deliver the agility you need today.
With rSeries, you can take advantage of F5’s Automation Toolchain for F5 TMOS based BIG-IP
software. Automation Toolchain offers a way to simplify and streamline your F5 portfolio with
simple, yet powerful declarative interfaces that minimize F5 knowledge requirements, reduce
errors, increase deployment velocity, and make workflows more repeatable. Automation
Toolchain is comprised of a unified set of REST API endpoints built using human-readable
JSON source of truth documents installed on BIG-IP or on BIG-IQ in any environment that
supports those solutions. The Automation Toolchain makes it faster, easier, and more
programmatic to configure and deploy F5 application delivery and security services.
Programmability
Enabling automation and orchestration is key to achieving the benefits of cloud and
software-defined architectures and to scaling application services on demand. F5 platforms
offer many ways to program the application services fabric and network, enabling
organizations to automate deployment, react to events in real time, and easily integrate
into orchestration systems.
F5 iRules® scripting has long provided granular traffic control and visibility, enabling
customization, rapid response to code errors and security vulnerabilities, and support for new
protocols. F5 rSeries and BIG-IP tenants are fully automatable with iRules and AS3. F5 iRules
LX™ lowers costs and speeds deployments by extending iRules to JavaScript developers and
providing access to, and easier integration with, over 300,000 community Node.js packages.
In addition, F5 iApps® and F5 Application Services Templates (FAST) templates are powerful
tools that enable you to automate deployment and configuration of enterprise application
services as a whole, rather than individually managing configuration and objects. iApps and
FAST give you greater visibility into and control over application delivery—and helps you
deploy in hours rather than weeks.
F5 iControl® REST APIs and SDKs integrate with leading open source and commercial
orchestration systems, VMware, OpenStack clouds, and configuration management and
automation systems such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Terraform.
F5 ADC System 5
BIG-IQ Centralized Management
F5 BIG-IQ® Centralized Management is F5’s management and orchestration platform for
BIG-IP. It provides a central point of control for F5 physical and virtual devices and the app
delivery and security services that run on them. BIG-IQ Centralized Management is available
as a virtual edition. It simplifies management, helps ensure compliance, and gives you the
visibility and reporting you need to troubleshoot and respond to issues and security attacks.
BIG-IQ manages policies, licenses, SSL certificates, images, and configurations for F5 devices
and the following BIG-IP software modules:
• BIG-IP® DNS
• F5 SSL Orchestrator®
F I P S C O M P L I A N C E AT S C A L E
The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) specify requirements for cryptographic
modules. FIPS compliance is required for many government agencies and industries such
as financial services and healthcare that demand the highest standards in information,
application, and data security. While rSeries is not yet FIPS validated, F5 offers a broad range
of other FIPS-validated hardware appliances that support a FIPS 140-2 Level 2 implementation
for RSA cryptographic key generation, use, and protection when running validated versions
of TMOS.
F5 ADC System 6
For additional protection, the BIG-IP i15820-DF/10350v-F/i7820-DF/i5820-DF supports a FIPS
140-2 Level 3 implementation of the Internal HSM (PCI card). BIG-IP Hardware FIPS appliances
include integrated HSMs that have tamper-evident seals with a hardened-epoxy cover which,
if removed, will render the card useless. Keys generated on or imported into a BIG-IP system
hardware security module (HSM) are not extractable in a plain-text format. This security rating
means the i15820-DF/10350v-F/i7820-DF/ i5820-DF HSM card adds tamper-resistance, which
is an additional means of detection to the tamper-evident methods of Level 2, as well as a
response to physical access attempts, or to cryptographic module use or tampering.
M I G R AT I N G T O F 5 r S E R I E S
F5’s migration tool, Journeys, helps users adopt newer platforms like rSeries by providing
a frictionless migration experience. It allows users to migrate from any source platform (F5
chassis, appliance, or VE) running BIG-IP software to the platform of their choice. The tool
assists in checking feature compatibility issues between different platforms and software
versions, identifying and troubleshooting migration issues, and reducing overall complexity
and time spent on migration. It’s a single tool with an easy-to-use GUI interface that helps to
migrate all the L4–L7 customer configurations with minimal disruption to a customer’s existing
operational procedures. This tool also provides post-migration validation metrics in terms of
the memory footprint, cluster status, and configuration object count, for improved visibility into
the migration status and reduced runtime issues.
F5 ADC System 7
Specifications r10900 r10800
L7 requests per second: 6.6M L7 requests per second: 5.5M
L4 connections per second: 2.5M L4 connections per second: 2.1M
Intelligent Traffic Processing: L4 HTTP requests per second: 37M L4 HTTP requests per second: 36M
Maximum L4 concurrent connections: 180M Maximum L4 concurrent connections: 160M
Throughput: 190 Gbps/190 Gbps L4/L7 Throughput: 190 Gbps/145 Gbps L4/L7
200K TPS (RSA 2k keys) 150K TPS (RSA 2k keys)
140K TPS (ECDHE-ECDSA P-256) 110K TPS (ECDHE-ECDSA P-256)
Hardware Offload SSL/TLS:
110K TPS (ECDHE P-256-RSA 2k) 110K TPS (ECDHE P-256-RSA 2k)
95 Gbps bulk encryption 80 Gbps bulk encryption
Hardware Compression: 90 Gbps 80 Gbps
Hardware DDoS Protection: 160M SYN Cookies per second 160M SYN Cookies per second
64-bit TMOS 64-bit TMOS
Software Architecture:
64-bit F5OS 64-bit F5OS
Multi-Tenancy: Up to 36 Up to 28
12 vCPU’s Reserved for F5OS, and 36 vCPU’s Available for 12 vCPU’s Reserved for F5OS, and 28 vCPU’s Available for
Processor:
Tenancy. Tenancy.
Memory: 256 GB DDR 256 GB DDR
Hard Drive: 2x 1TB U.2 Enterprise-class SSD (RAID 1 Mirrored) 2x 1TB U.2 Enterprise-class SSD (RAID1 Mirrored)
1x 1000BASE-T, 1x 1000BASE-T,
Management Ports: 1x USB 3.0, 1x USB 3.0,
1x serial console 1x serial console
100/40 Gigabit Fiber Ports: 4 x 100G/40G QSFP28/QSFP+ ports 4 x 100G/40G QSFP28/QSFP+ ports
25/10 Gigabit Fiber Ports: 16 x 25G/10G SFP28/SFP+ ports 16 x 25G/10G SFP28/SFP+ ports
2 x 1200 W 100-240 VAC (+/- 10%) AUTO Switching Platinum, 2 x 1200 W 100-240 VAC (+/- 10%) AUTO Switching Platinum,
Power Supply:
Dual PSU Support Dual PSU Optional
Typical Consumption: 680W (dual power supply, 48V DC or 110V AC input) 680W (dual power supply, 48V DC or 110V AC input)
Dual Power supply Dual Power supply
Input Voltage / Typical Heat
110 VAC input: 2325 BTU/hour 110 VAC input: 2325 BTU/hour
generated:
230 VAC input: 2290 BTU/hour 230 VAC input: 2290 BTU/hour
H: 1.72 inches (4.37 cm) x W: 17.4 inches (44.20 cm) x D: 30.6 H: 1.72 inches (4.37 cm) x W: 17.4 inches (44.20 cm) x D: 30.6
Dimensions: inches (77.72 cm) (per unit) 1U industry standard rack-mount inches (77.72 cm) (per unit) 1U industry standard rack-mount
chassis chassis
36.0 pounds (16.33 kg) with two power supply units (PSUs) (per 36.0 pounds (16.33 kg) with two power supply units (PSUs) (per
Weight:
unit) unit)
Operating Temperature: 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C) 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
*Requires using adjacent QSFP28 ports at the same speed (100G/100G or 40G/40G). 100/40G ports do not support breakout cables.
Notes: Performance-related numbers are based on local traffic management services only and are subject to change. Only optics provided by F5 are supported.
F5 ADC System 8
Specifications r10600 r5900
L7 requests per second: 4.5M L7 requests per second: 4.3M
L4 connections per second: 1.9M L4 connections per second: 1.8M
Intelligent Traffic Processing: L4 HTTP requests per second: 36M L4 HTTP requests per second: 18M
Maximum L4 concurrent connections: 145M Maximum L4 concurrent connections: 100M
Throughput: 190 Gbps/125 Gbps L4/L7 Throughput: 95 Gbps/95 Gbps L4/L7
115K TPS (RSA 2k keys) 100K TPS (RSA 2k keys)
90K TPS (ECDHE-ECDSA P-256) 70K TPS (ECDHE-ECDSA P-256)
Hardware Offload SSL/TLS:
90K TPS (ECDHE P-256-RSA-2k) 55K TPS (ECDHE P-256-RSA-2k)
75 Gbps bulk encryption 50 Gbps bulk encryption
Hardware Compression: 80 Gbps 50 Gbps
Hardware DDoS Protection: 160M SYN Cookies per second 80M SYN Cookies per second
64-bit TMOS 64-bit TMOS
Software Architecture:
64-Bit F5OS 64-bit F5OS
Multi-Tenancy: Up to 24 Up to 26
12 vCPU’s Reserved for F5OS, and 24 vCPU’s Available for 6 vCPU’s Reserved for F5OS, and 26 vCPU’s Available for
Processor:
Tenancy. Tenancy.
Memory: 256 GB DDR 128 GB DDR
Hard Drive: 2x 1TB U.2 Enterprise-class SSD (RAID1 Mirrored) 1x 1TB U.2 Enterprise-class SSD (RAID 1 Mirrored)
1x 1000BASE-T, 1x 1000BASE-T,
Management Ports: 1x USB 3.0, 1x USB 3.0,
1x serial console 1x serial console
100/40 Gigabit Fiber Ports: 4 x 100G/40G QSFP28/QSFP+ ports 2 x 100G/40G QSFP28/QSFP+ ports
25/10 Gigabit Fiber Ports: 16 x 25G/10G SFP28/SFP+ ports 8 x 25G/10G SFP28/SFP+ ports
2 x 1200 W 100-240 VAC (+/- 10%) AUTO Switching Platinum, 1 x 650 W 100-240 VAC (+/- 10%) AUTO Switching Platinum,
Power Supply:
Dual PSU Optional Dual PSU Support
Typical Consumption: 680W (dual power supply, 48V DC or 110V AC input) 425W (single power supply, 48V DC or 110V AC input)
Dual Power supply Single Power supply
Input Voltage / Typical Heat
110 VAC input: 2325 BTU/hour 110 VAC input: 1455 BTU/hour
generated:
230 VAC input: 2290 BTU/hour 230 VAC input: 1420 BTU/hour
H: 1.72 inches (4.37 cm) x W: 17.4 inches (44.20 cm) x D: 30.6 H: 1.72 inches (4.37 cm) x W: 17.4 inches (44.20 cm) x D: 30.6
Dimensions: inches (77.72 cm) (per unit) 1U industry standard rack-mount inches (77.72 cm) (per unit) 1U industry standard rack-mount
chassis chassis
36.0 pounds (16.33 kg) with two power supply units (PSUs) 36.0 pounds (16.33 kg) with two power supply units (PSUs)
Weight:
(per unit) (per unit)
Operating Temperature: 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C) 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
*Requires using adjacent QSFP28 ports at the same speed (100G/100G or 40G/40G). 100/40G ports do not support breakout cables.
Notes: Performance-related numbers are based on local traffic management services only and are subject to change. Only optics provided by F5 are supported.
F5 ADC System 9
Specifications r5800 r5600
L7 requests per second: 3.3M L7 requests per second: 2.5M
L4 connections per second: 1.4M L4 connections per second: 1M
Intelligent Traffic Processing: L4 HTTP requests per second: 18M L4 HTTP requests per second: 18M
Maximum L4 concurrent connections: 85M Maximum L4 concurrent connections: 75M
Throughput: 95 Gbps/85 Gbps L4/L7 Throughput: 95 Gbps/60 Gbps L4/L7
80K TPS (2K SSL TPS) 60K TPS (2K SSL TPS)
50K TPS (ECDHE-ECDSA P-256 TPS) 30K TPS (ECDHE-ECDSA P-256 TPS)
Hardware Offload SSL/TLS:
50K TPS (ECDHE P-256-RSA-2k TPS) 30K TPS (ECDHE P-256-RSA-2k TPS)
45 Gbps bulk encryption 35 Gbps bulk encryption
Hardware Compression: 40 Gbps 35 Gbps
Hardware DDoS Protection: 80M SYN Cookies per second 80M SYN Cookies per second
64-bit TMOS
Software Architecture: 64-bit TMOS
64-Bit F5OS
Multi-Tenancy: Up to 18 Up to 8
6 vCPU’s Reserved for F5OS, and 18 vCPU’s Available for 6 vCPU’s Reserved for F5OS, and 12 vCPU’s Available for
Processor:
Tenancy. Tenancy.
Memory: 128 GB DDR 128 GB DDR
1x 1000BASE-T, 1x 1000BASE-T,
Management Ports: 1x USB 3.0, 1x USB 3.0,
1x serial console 1x serial console
100/40 Gigabit Fiber Ports: 2 x 100G/40G QSFP+/QSFP28 ports 2 x 100G/40G QSFP+/QSFP28 ports
25/10 Gigabit Fiber Ports: 8 x 25G/10G SFP28/SFP+ ports 8 x 25G/10G SFP28/SFP+ ports
1 x 650 W 100-240 VAC (+/- 10%) AUTO Switching Platinum, 1 x 650 W 100-240 VAC (+/- 10%) AUTO Switching Platinum,
Power Supply:
Dual PSU Optional Dual PSU Optional
Typical Consumption: 425W (single power supply, 48V DC or 110V AC input) 425W (single power supply, 48V DC or 110V AC input)
Single Power supply Single Power supply
Input Voltage / Typical Heat
110 VAC input: 1455 BTU/hour 110 VAC input: 1455 BTU/hour
generated:
230 VAC input: 1420 BTU/hour 230 VAC input: 1420 BTU/hour
H: 1.72 inches (4.37 cm) x W: 17.4 inches (44.20 cm) x D: 30.6 H: 1.72 inches (4.37 cm) x W: 17.4 inches (44.20 cm) x D: 30.6
Dimensions: inches (77.72 cm) (per unit) 1U industry standard rack-mount inches (77.72 cm) (per unit) 1U industry standard rack-mount
chassis chassis
36.0 pounds (16.33 kg) with two power supply units (PSUs) (per 36.0 pounds (16.33 kg) with two power supply units (PSUs)
Weight:
unit) (per unit)
Operating Temperature: 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C) 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
*Requires using adjacent QSFP28 ports at the same speed (100G/100G or 40G/40G). 100/40G ports do not support breakout cables.
Notes: Performance-related numbers are based on local traffic management services only and are subject to change. Only optics provided by F5 are supported.
F5 ADC System 10
F5 Global Services
F5 Global Services offers world-class support, training, and consulting to help you get the
most from your F5 investment. Whether it’s providing fast answers to questions, training
internal teams, or handling entire implementations from design to deployment, F5 Global
Services can help ensure your applications are always secure, fast, and reliable. For more
information about F5 Global Services, contact [email protected] or visit f5.com/support.
• Perpetual Licensing: One-time CapEx purchase, with an ability to extend for the
lifetime of the product
The Good, Better, Best bundle offerings from F5 provide you with the best value through
flexibility to provision additional advanced application traffic management and security
modules as needed.
F5 rSeries offers flexible pay-as-you-grow licensing options to deliver IT agility for dynamic
business needs and unpredictable application performance requirements. Multiple tiers are
offered per platform to provide granular control of performance levers and multi-tenancy. For
example, F5 rSeries enables you to scale up your ECC SSL processing capacity in a matter of
minutes, without the need to replace your current device.
More Information
For more information on F5 rSeries, visit f5.com. Interested in talking to an F5 sales specialist?
Contact [email protected] today. For the latest product specifications, see the applicable platform
guide on askf5.com.
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