The advantages of F5 BIG-IP PEM to optimize the network performance
Bandwidth demands grow per day and you as a company should try to ensure that these demands do not affect service performance in your organization. Reduce network congestion enables better performance to your subscribers with Layer 7, the use intelligent traffic steering capabilities and to implement bandwidth control policies without implying higher costs. Can this be possible?
F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager can handle these challenges to manage network congestion and offer services focused on the customer experience.
What differentiates F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM) from other solutions for traffic management and control?
The answer is simple. F5 BIG-IP PEM gives you all the necessary information to analyze subscriber behavior, which will allow you to manage network traffic with a wide range of policy enforcement capabilities. This is possible because the solution provides intelligent layer 4–7 traffic steering, network intelligence and dynamic control of network resources.
In addition, it will offer you detailed reports very useful to build tailored packages based on subscribers’ app usage and traffic classification and patterns.
How does F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM) translate into advantages for your organization?
The performance of your network will be clearly optimized thanks to the tools that F5 BIG-IP PEM has to reduce network congestion with intelligent traffic steering capabilities, the ability to implement bandwidth control policies, intelligent traffic steering, carrier-grade NAT, network firewall, VAS capabilities, URL filtering and TCP optimization, within an easy-to-manage unified platform.
Traffic detection: This F5 solution offers service providers a comprehensive set of traffic classification capabilities as a 3GPP compliant Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (supporting Gx/Gy interface) or as a Traffic Detection Function (supporting Sd interface). This function is vital if you want to accurately identify the specific applications and services your subscribers are using and how they are using them.
Traffic classification: This is a key point to determine how to manage bandwidth consumption in order to perform further network optimization and monitoring. F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager can understand the types of applications and services, as well as the protocols being used in the network. BIG-IP PEM is able to classify traffic into several categories of applications and protocols, including classification of application subcategories that include voice and video. It can support various types of applications and protocols, including the following:
- P2P: BitTorrent, Gnutella
- VoIP: SIP, Skype, Yahoo!, Jabber
- Web: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, YouTube, Facebook
- Streaming: HTTP streaming, RTSP, HTTP audio
- Non-TCP/UDP: IPsec, GRE, IPinIP, ICMP
Subscriber awareness: With BIG-IP PEM it is possible to know user information such as IP address, IMSI through RADIUS and/or DHCP. This way you can collect large amounts of data to understand, among other issues, how subscribers are using your services.
URL filtering: Thanks to the integration of URL filtering services within BIG-IP PEM, you can implement parental control services, which block traffic to specific websites according to certain URL categories previously defined by you.
Automation thanks to iControl: This API called iControl and developed by F5 helps automate communications between third-party applications, eliminating the need for manual intervention. Thanks to iControl interface, network overhead can be reduced and service performance and processing time can be improved.
High-performance services: Thanks to the modular TMOS architecture used by F5 BIG-IP systems, you can achieve low latency, advanced defense against more than 30 distributed denials-of-service (DDoS) attack types, IP port scans and SYN floods, traffic load balancing, advanced network health monitoring and traffic steering with preset policies based on server availability.
BIG-IP PEM solution offers the best-in-class performance and scalability for total concurrent sessions, traffic throughput and transactions per second on its systems. NEBS-compliant, BIG-IP PEM scales up to 320 Gbps of throughput at layer 7 with more than 24 million concurrent subscribers.
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