Fixed-Line, Cable, and Data Center Security Solutions

Securing Your Fixed-Line, Cable, and Data Center is Crucial to Business Success

These days, customers expect your services to always be available and secure—and they’ll find another provider if their expectations aren’t met. This makes security crucial for all service providers, especially as the threat landscape evolves. Security shouldn’t be implemented as an afterthought. It needs to be built into the network, providing coverage end-to-end and from the ground up. F5 can help you build that security to your exact specifications.

Comprehensive Suite of Security Solutions

F5 offers a variety of security solutions for securing your network and apps in core data centers or edge cloud locations.

Deployment Options Based on Your Needs

Get hardware appliances for high data plane performance, VNFs for customers with NFV infrastructure, or CNFs for those customers migrating to cloud-native and SaaS solutions.

Best-of-Suite Security Solutions

Choose from security solutions for protecting your network ands apps, including DDoS, Edge FW, DNS, Advanced WAF, and WAAP services.

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Superior Defense for Your Fixed-Line, Cable, and Data Center

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Protect your network and customers as you scale

F5 security solutions defend the strategic points in your data center, fixed-line, and cable operations. Applying the right controls helps you protect your network and customers, allowing you to build more reliable infrastructure and focus on monetizing new opportunities. Implementing a unified, multi-layer defense to protect your operations helps you gain customer trust. Our software-based solutions are capable of supporting performance exceeding 1.0 Tbps throughput, ensuring massive scalability, and our flexible deployment options keep applications available regardless of architecture requirements.

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How F5 Helps

Mitigating DDOS Attacks

Secure DNS Infrastructure

Secure Interfaces and Infrastructure

IoT Security

Multi-tiered DDoS protection is vital

DDoS was the most common service provider attack for three years straight, representing 77% of all incidents in 2019.¹ Get the protection that works best for your business based on where your applications are hosted—in the cloud, on-premises, or a mix of both—and how hands-on you want to be. Your solution can evolve over time as application infrastructure protection needs change. F5 offers a multi-layer (L3-L7) DDoS attack protection against all vectored attacks and stops DDoS attacks before they affect your business.

BIG-IP AFM DDoS Protection

Protects against attacks that consume network and application resources and can signal upstream to the cloud-scrubbing service.

Advanced WAF

Protects against layer 7 application attacks that target CPU or memory resources and can signal upstream to the cloud-scrubbing service.

BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs

Increase DDoS absorption capacity by approximately 70x while observing significant TCO savings.