: iSeries excels where hardware-accelerated crypto, deterministic low latency, and carrier-grade HA are required. For pure cloud-native environments, rSeries or NGINX may be lighter.
The hallmark of the iSeries platform is its integration of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) working alongside host CPUs. TurboFlex allows network administrators to choose pre-packaged performance profiles. These profiles dynamically reallocate hardware resources to optimize specific packet flows, such as local Layer 4 offloading, cloud tunneling protocols (VXLAN/NVGRE), or volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation. big-ip iseries platform
The BIG-IP iSeries platform, also known as BIG-IP iSeries appliances, is a line of network traffic management solutions designed by F5 Networks. The platform is built on the iSeries (now known as IBM i) operating system, which provides a robust and secure environment for managing network traffic. This paper provides an overview of the BIG-IP iSeries platform, its features, benefits, and applications. The platform is built on the iSeries (now
| Model | Form Factor | Max L7 Throughput | Max SSL TPS (w/ TurboFlex) | 10/25/40/100 GbE Ports | Typical Use Case | |-------|-------------|------------------|----------------------------|------------------------|------------------| | BIG-IP i4600 | 1U | 18 Gbps | 15,000 | 8x 1GbE, 4x 10GbE | Edge security, small DC | | BIG-IP i4800 | 1U | 26 Gbps | 20,000 | 8x 1GbE, 6x 10GbE | Mid-size ADC, WAF | | BIG-IP i5800 | 1U | 55 Gbps | 45,000 | 4x 25GbE, 8x 10GbE | High-performance SSL offload | | BIG-IP i7800 | 2U | 95 Gbps | 65,000 | 4x 40GbE, 8x 25GbE | Carrier-grade, large enterprise | | BIG-IP i10800 | 2U | 155 Gbps | 105,000 | 8x 100GbE | Cloud providers, heavy crypto | 000 | 8x 1GbE