Volume Licensing Subscription

Enabling F5 customers to add ADC services to every application

VLS PROVIDES UNPRECEDENTED VALUE

Flexibility—Adopt advanced F5 functionality for every application.

Simplicity—Support dynamic application needs across private and public clouds.

Best Value—Save up to 67–78% over non-volume pricing.

F5 Volume Licensing Subscription supports customers who need large volumes of VEs deployed on
private or public clouds.
Leading enterprise IT departments are transitioning to cloud architectures and developing software-
defined data centers that span private, hybrid, and public infrastructure.
VLS offers:
• Large volumes of VEs with advanced F5 functionality
• Simplified OpEx purchasing model
• Available in 1- and 3-year subscriptions
• Premium support and software upgrades

VOLUME PRICING FOR LARGE QUANTITIES OF VEs

1000 BIG-IP VEs 1000 LineRate Point™

(US $M) Load Balancer VEs
(US $M)

1G Good 3G Better MaxG Best LineRate Point LineRate Point

Load Balancer Load Balancer
250MB 1G

VLS Subscription Non-volume Pricing VLS Subscription Non-volume Pricing

At savings up to 67% over At savings up to 78% over non-VLS

VE Version Plus Pricing LineRate Point Load Balancer Pricing

To learn more about VLS, contact your F5 account manager.

 TWO PLATFORMS

BIG-IP® Platform LineRate Platform

• Powerful platform-based traffic management • Economical, scaled-out traffic management
• Flexibility and programmability • Standardized load balancing
• Standardized VE fabric • Premium support and software upgrades
• Premium support and software upgrades (alternative to self-managing NGINX or
HAProxy)

VLS OFFER
BIG-IP VE Platform Offers
MAX THROUGHPUT 1G 3G UP TO 10G

MODULES/SERVICES 1G GOOD 3G BETTER MAXG BEST

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager • • •

BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager • •
BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager • •
BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager • •
SDN Services • •
Advanced Routing • •
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager •
BIG-IP Application Security Manager •

LineRate Platform Offers

MAX THROUGHPUT 250MB 1G

• Lightweight architecture to minimize impact on compute, memory, and storage

resources in cloud environments.
• Built-in capabilities such as load balancing, HA, and SSL.
• Lightweight in regards to infrastructure resource use.
• Deployable by orchestration/automation, and readily integrates with existing
management and monitoring solutions.

To learn more about VLS, contact your

F5 account manager.
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