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F5 - AI performance and security

Industry-leading application delivery and security service

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OVERVIEW

AI PERFORMANCE AND SECURITY

PNY integrates F5 software into its AI Factory to deliver high-performance, secure, and scalable AI infrastructure. With BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, organizations benefit from optimized GPU performance, efficient traffic management, and reduced operational costs—while enabling token management and monetization. Advanced AI security, including Guardrails and Red Team, ensures protected models, controlled usage, and resilience against attacks.

AI PERFORMANCE AND SECURITY

DRIVE DOWN YOUR COST AND REDUCE
YOUR COMPLEXITY AND RISK

Large-Scale AI Model Training

Operational
simplicity

Reduce the complexity and costs that come with managing disparate point products that aren’t interoperable and lack integration.

Real-Time AI Inference

Policy
consistency

Enable every app, app component and API—at the edge or in the cloud—to benefit from consistent, comprehensive security and delivery.

Massive Data Processing

Full visibility
and AI insights

Full automation and high programmability streamline workloads while visibility and AI insights across the portfolio
improve outcomes.

AI Cloud & Multi-Tenant AI Workloads

Flexible deployment
options

Run close to your apps on hardware; on DPUs or AI apps; in containers like Kubernetes; on software; or via SaaS.

The most extensive in the industry

F5 APPLICATION DELIVERY AND SECURITY PLATFORM

Unified Security & Delivery — Converges application and API security with high-performance traffic delivery into a single, cohesive platform.

API-Driven Policy Enforcement — Fully API-driven architecture enabling consistent, scalable security policies across heterogeneous environments.

AI-Powered Operations — Integrated AI assistants and deep analytics to automate and streamline operational workflows at scale.

Flexible Deployment — Runs natively across bare-metal, DPU-offloaded infrastructure, Kubernetes, software, and SaaS environments.

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PNY AI Enterprise Factory Designed for the AI era

  • XOps

    XOps

    A converged platform that reduces complexity and streamlines operations by unifying app delivery and security.

    AI assisant: Explain, optimize, and generate configurations for deploying and securing apps and APIs

    Programmability and integrations: Programmable automation and integrations to connect and extend F5 ADSP

    Unified console: Simplified management, deep insights, and advanced protection for apps and APIs

    Visibility and insights: Visualize data pre-designed, customizable dashboards, providing insights into BIGIP deployments

    High-Performance Compute
  • Security

    Security

    Comprehensive security for sensitive data, apps, and APIs, on a single platform leveraging AI, ML, and other advanced technologies.

    AI security: Protect AI apps, APIs, and models with advanced security that prevents abuse and data leakage, while improving accuracy

    Network security: Fortify networks, data centers, and services from complex threats, including massive DDoS attacks

    Post quantum cryptography: Safeguard sensitive data from quantum risks with NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography

    Web app and API protection: Defend against a wide range of threats to web apps and APIs, including exploits, automated attacks, denial of service, and fraud

    Zero trust: Prevent unauthorized access to your networks, data, apps, and APIs while reducing risk and simplifying compliance

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    Ultra-Fast Networking
  • Deployment

    Deployment

    A converged platform that simplifies deployment and adapts to the ever-changing requirements of distributed networks

    Cloud native: Optimize networks, reduce costs, and scale with cloud-native functionality and advanced security

    DPU: Offload intensive data-path processing to enhance performance, efficiency, and security

    Hardware: Next-gen hardware designed for both traditional and modern architectures—enhancing scalability, reliability, and performance

    SaaS: Unify cloud, data center, and edge environments to connect, protect, and run apps everywhere

    Software: Virtualize F5 app delivery and security services for deployment flexibility accros hybrid multicloud environments

    Optimized AI Storage
  • Delivery

    Delivery

    App delivery that increases visibility and reliability, reduces complexity, improves control, and enhances digital experiences for apps and APIs.

    AI apps: Dynamic load balancing and adaptive testing providing visibility, traceability, and regulatory compliance

    APIs: Full lifecycle API management, observability, governance, and policy enforcement

    Modern app: Secure delivery and deep observability for modern, cloud-native apps and APIs

    Traditional apps: Flexible deployment options with centralized control for scaling and securing high-performing apps

    f5 delivery

Powering AI Applications at Scale

F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes

AI applications are pushing cloud-native environments to their limits. From training to inference, delivering secure, scalable, and high-performing AI apps requires more than traditional networking.

F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, accelerated with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, provides a unified control point for application traffic, security, and visibility across Kubernetes environments.

What you get
Optimize AI application performance with intelligent traffic management and DPU acceleration
Maximize GPU utilization by removing network bottlenecks and offloading processing from CPUs
Built-in security & multi-tenancy for AI apps, APIs, and data
Full observability across application traffic and AI interactions

Why it matters
Without the right application delivery and security layer:
• GPUs are underutilized or inefficiently allocated
• AI applications face security and compliance risks
• Kubernetes environments become complex and hard to scale

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F5 Kubernetes

F5 Kubernetes Edge

At the Kubernetes Edge

A SINGLE POINT OF CONTROL

BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes sits at the North-South gateway of your Kubernetes environment—the entry and exit point for all application traffic.

In simple terms:
It acts as a central control layer between users, external networks, and your AI applications
It manages all incoming (ingress) and outgoing (egress) traffic
It applies security, load balancing, and visibility in one place

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DPU ACCELERATION: UNLOCK PERFORMANCE

By running on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes:

- Offloads networking and security from CPUs
- Reduces latency and improves throughput
- Increases GPU efficiency and overall infrastructure performance
- Minimizes hardware footprint while scaling AI workloads

F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, accelerated by NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs

- Boost Token Throughput by Up to ~40%
- Reduce TTFT by Up to 60%
- Cut End-to-End Latency by 40%
- Lower Cost per Token by up to 30%
- Enable Larger Context Windows (up to 2x)
- Security Offload Benefit of 15-25%

BIG-IP Next Illustration

AI Security AI GuardRails & AI RedTeam

F5 AI Guardrails

F5 AI Guardrails provides real-time security, governance, and risk management for AI models, applications, and agents—from pilot to production.

Key Features
- Real-time threat protection for models, agents, and data
- Data loss prevention (DLP) across AI workflows
- AI risk and compliance assessment with built-in frameworks
- Observability and logging for governance and audits
- Content moderation to reduce harmful or biased outputs
- Model-agnostic security, supporting both enterprise and open-source AI

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F5 AI Red Team

F5 AI Red Team
F5 AI Red Team enables automated, large-scale testing of AI systems to identify vulnerabilities before attackers do. It uses multiple AI agents working together to quickly simulate real-world attacks—like prompt injection and jailbreaks

  Key Features - Automated adversarial testing across all AI layers
- Agent-based attack simulation for emerging and unknown threats
- Explainable insights (“agentic fingerprints”) showing how attacks succeed
- Integration with F5 AI Guardrails for faster remediation
- Scalable, continuous testing from pilot to production

Enhancing AI Factory with Secure High-Performance Infrastructure

PNY integrates F5 software into its AI Factory offering to deliver highperformance, secure, and scalable AI infrastructure.

Accelerate performance with hardware optimizations Low-latency, highthroughput Kubernetes networking

Protect workloads with advanced offloaded security features Firewall, DDoS protection, and access control lists on DPUs

Simplify operations with multi-tenant scalability Secure isolation of input/output flows based on namespaces


Integrated AI Stack

F5 seamlessly complements PNY’s ecosystem alongside leading technologies:
- NVIDIA for infrastructure
- DDN for storage
- VAST for AI data management
- Canonical (Ubuntu) for Kubernetes and open-source foundations
- F5 for AI workload management, traffic control, and security

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