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F5 BIG-IP Standard Series 12000 License

The BIG-IP Standard Series 12000 is a series of high-performance ADC equipment designed for medium to large enterprises and organizations. This series comes in two models, i12600 and i12800. Using two TurboFlex FPGAs and dual high-reliability power supplies, it provides exceptional performance and resilience. This series also supports Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and offers enhanced security features. The suite supports 100M Layer 4 concurrent connections, up to 20 vADC guests, and 200/100 GB L4/L7 capacity for application consolidation and services. The BIG-IP Standard Series 12000 operating systems are available as a 1RU device.

F5 BIG-IP Standard Series 12000 License

F5 ScaleN Technology

F5 ScaleN technology enables organizations to scale performance, virtualize, or horizontally group multiple BIG-IP devices to create an elastic network infrastructure for application delivery that scales efficiently as requirements change. The Scale-On-Demand feature increases capacity and performance by scaling-on-demand, simply adding more power to the existing infrastructure rather than adding new devices.

Select BIG-IP appliance models can be upgraded to the most powerful model within each series through software-on-demand licenses, allowing organizations to support growth without new hardware. Operational scaling virtualizes ADC services with a multi-tenant architecture that supports a variety of BIG-IP versions and product modules on a single appliance. F5’s Virtual Cluster Multiprocessing (vCMP) technology allows specific hardware platforms to run multiple instances of BIG-IP guests. Each guest instance acts as a physical BIG-IP device with a dedicated allocation of CPU, memory, and other resources.

vCMP provides a per-guest bandwidth rate limit that allows different throughput levels for each guest. Further partition each vCMP guest using multi-tenant features such as partitions and routing domains, which can isolate settings and networks per virtual domain. Within each virtual domain, you can further isolate and secure settings and policies with a role-based access system for administrative control. When path domains/partitions are combined with vCMP guests, F5 provides the highest density multi-tenant virtualization solution, scaling to thousands of virtual ADC (vADC) instances.

This ability to virtualize BIG-IP ADC services means service providers and business users can be isolated based on the BIG-IP version, allowing for project or department-based multi-tenancy, performance guarantees, consolidated management of the application delivery platform, and increased utilization. Application scaling increases capacity by adding BIG-IP resources through an all-active approach and scales beyond the traditional appliance pair to eliminate costly, idle standby resources. Application scaling achieves this through two forms of horizontal scaling: Application Service Cluster and Device Service Clustering.

Application Service Clustering focuses on application scalability and high availability. Device Service Clustering is designed to efficiently and transparently scale BIG-IP application delivery services and synchronize application policies. Application Service Clustering provides sub-second failover and end-to-end connection mirroring for a high-availability cluster of up to eight appliances at the application layer, enabling high-availability multi-tenant deployments. Workloads can be moved across a cluster of appliances or virtual instances without disrupting other services and can be scaled to meet business needs.

Device Service Clustering can synchronize complete device configurations in a fully active deployment model, enabling consistent deployment and policy enforcement across devices with up to 32 active nodes. This ensures consistent device configuration with hardened firewall synchronization and access policies to simplify operations and reduce attack surfaces.

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Specifications

• Dimensions: 1.72” (4.37cm) Hx17.4” (44.2cm) Wx30.6” (77.72 cm) D – 1U industry standard rack-mount chassis
• Processor: One 10-Core Intel Xeon processor (total 20 hyperthreaded logical processor cores)
• Communication: 6×40 Gigabit Fiber Ports (QSFP), 10 x 10 Gigabit Fiber Ports (SFP)
• Typical heat output: 1500BTU/hour (dual power supply, 110V input)
• Power supplies: 2x700W Platinum AC PSU (2x700W DC PSU Option)
• Typical consumption: 450W (dual power supply, 110V input)
• Input voltage: 100-240VAC /-10% auto switching. 50/60 Hz
• Storage drive capacity: 1x960GB Enterprise Class SSD
• Operating temperature: 32° to 104°F (0° to 40°C)
• Operating relative humidity: 5% to 85% at 40° C
• Throughput: 200Gbps / 100 Gbps L4 / L7
• Weight: 17.5 kg (dual power supply)
• RAM: 256GB DDR4