
F5 BIG-IP Is Not a Load Balancer — It's an Application Delivery Platform
F5 BIG-IP Is Not a Load Balancer — It’s an Application Delivery Platform The most common introduction to F5 in an enterprise goes like this: someone opens a ticket that says “the load balancer is down” and points at the F5. The problem is already in that sentence. F5 BIG-IP is not a load balancer. Calling it one is like calling a data center a server room — technically not wrong, but it completely misses the point. ...