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F5 GTM & GSLB Deep Dive: Global Traffic Management and DNS Failover This article is part of the F5 BIG-IP series. New to F5? Start with the platform overview first: F5 BIG-IP Is Not a Load Balancer — It’s an Application Delivery Platform If you already understand the big picture and want to go deep on GTM — iQuery, Wide IPs, topology routing, TTL strategy, and multi-DC design — you’re in the right place. ...

F5 BIG-IP: It is 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. ...