Network traffic management, also known as application traffic management, refers to a methodology that F5 pioneered for intercepting, inspecting, and translating network traffic, directing it to the optimum resource based on specific business policies. This allows network administrators to apply availability, scalability, security, and performance standards to any IP-based application, significantly increasing overall network application performance.

An IPv6 gateway is a device that uses the newer IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) standard rather than IPv4 to transmit data. IPv6 provides better security and many more available addresses for networked devices.

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is an evolving architecture designed to create standardized, simple, and scalable networks for deploying rich multimedia applications. The ultimate goal of the architecture is to define a model that separates the services offered by fixed-line (traditional telcos), mobile (traditional cellular), and converged service providers (cable companies and others who provide triple-play […]

TLS and SSL are the standard protocols used for securing stream-based TCP Internet traffic. DTLS is a protocol based on TLS that is capable of securing the datagram transport. DTLS is well-suited for securing applications and services that are delay-sensitive (and hence use datagram transport), tunneling applications such as VPNs, and applications that tend to […]

A Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) is a functional element in a 3G or 4G (such as LTE) network that provides real-time routing capabilities to ensure that messages are routed among the correct elements in a network. The DRA was introduced by the 3GPP to address the increased Diameter signaling traffic and growing complexity of 4G LTE networks.

Caching is the local storage of network data for re-use, to cut down on transfer time for future requests. With Web pages, static caching simply serves objects — typically images, JavaScript, stylesheets — as long as they haven’t passed their expiration date. But static caching can generally only be used for about 30 percent of […]

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is a programmatic technique that utilizes JavaScript and the XMLHTTPRequest object to exchange data between a web browser and a web server.