F5 to Supercharge AI Application Delivery for Service Providers and Enterprises with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs
F5 announces BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, an AI application delivery and security solution integrated with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs. This solution aims to accelerate and secure data traffic for AI infrastructures, particularly benefiting service providers and large enterprises. The integration optimizes data center efficiency, enhances AI inference performance, and improves infrastructure utilization.
The solution offers streamlined AI service delivery at cloud scale, enhanced control of AI deployments with rich observability, and protection for AI landscapes through automated security features. Available from November, it specifically targets high-demand environments like telco cloud and 5G infrastructures, supporting multiple L7 protocols beyond HTTP.
F5 annuncia BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, una soluzione di distribuzione e sicurezza delle applicazioni AI integrata con NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs. Questa soluzione mira ad accelerare e proteggere il traffico dati per le infrastrutture AI, beneficiando in particolare i fornitori di servizi e le grandi imprese. L'integrazione ottimizza l'efficienza dei data center, migliora le prestazioni di inferenza AI e aumenta l'utilizzo dell'infrastruttura.
La soluzione offre una distribuzione dei servizi AI semplificata su scala cloud, un controllo potenziato dei deployment AI con una ricca osservabilità e protezione per i paesaggi AI attraverso funzionalità di sicurezza automatizzate. Disponibile da novembre, punta specificamente a ambienti ad alta domanda come il cloud telco e le infrastrutture 5G, supportando molteplici protocolli L7 oltre a HTTP.
F5 anuncia BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, una solución de entrega y seguridad de aplicaciones de IA integrada con NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs. Esta solución tiene como objetivo acelerar y asegurar el tráfico de datos para infraestructuras de IA, beneficiando en particular a proveedores de servicios y grandes empresas. La integración optimiza la eficiencia de los centros de datos, mejora el rendimiento de inferencia de IA y aumenta la utilización de la infraestructura.
La solución ofrece una entrega de servicios de IA simplificada a escala de nube, un control mejorado de los despliegues de IA con una rica observabilidad y protección para los paisajes de IA a través de características de seguridad automatizadas. Disponible desde noviembre, se dirige específicamente a entornos de alta demanda como el cloud telco y las infraestructuras 5G, soportando múltiples protocolos L7 además de HTTP.
F5는 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes를 발표했습니다. 이는 NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs와 통합된 AI 애플리케이션 배포 및 보안 솔루션입니다. 이 솔루션은 AI 인프라를 위한 데이터 트래픽을 가속화하고 보호하는 것을 목표로 하며, 특히 서비스 제공자와 대기업에 혜택을 줍니다. 통합은 데이터 센터의 효율성을 최적화하고, AI 추론 성능을 향상시키며, 인프라 사용률을 개선합니다.
이 솔루션은 클라우드 규모에서 간소화된 AI 서비스 제공, 풍부한 관찰 가능성을 통한 AI 배포의 향상된 제어, 자동화된 보안 기능을 통한 AI 환경 보호를 제공합니다. 11월부터 사용 가능하며, 특히 텔코 클라우드와 5G 인프라와 같은 높은 수요 환경을 목표로 하며 HTTP 외에도 여러 L7 프로토콜을 지원합니다.
F5 annonce BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, une solution de livraison et de sécurité des applications AI intégrée avec NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs. Cette solution vise à accélérer et sécuriser le trafic de données pour les infrastructures AI, bénéficiant en particulier aux fournisseurs de services et aux grandes entreprises. L'intégration optimise l'efficacité des centres de données, améliore les performances d'inférence AI et augmente l'utilisation de l'infrastructure.
La solution propose une livraison de services AI rationalisée à l'échelle du cloud, un contrôle amélioré des déploiements AI avec une riche observabilité, et une protection des paysages AI grâce à des fonctionnalités de sécurité automatisées. Disponible à partir de novembre, elle cible spécifiquement les environnements à forte demande tels que le cloud télécom et les infrastructures 5G, en prenant en charge plusieurs protocoles L7 au-delà de HTTP.
F5 kündigt BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes an, eine AI-Anwendungsbereitstellungs- und Sicherheitslösung, die mit NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs integriert ist. Diese Lösung zielt darauf ab, den Datenverkehr für AI-Infrastrukturen zu beschleunigen und zu sichern, insbesondere zum Nutzen von Dienstanbietern und großen Unternehmen. Die Integration optimiert die Effizienz der Rechenzentren, verbessert die AI-Inferenzleistung und steigert die Nutzung der Infrastruktur.
Die Lösung bietet eine vereinfachte AI-Servicebereitstellung im Cloud-Maßstab, verbesserte Kontrolle über AI-Bereitstellungen mit umfangreicher Beobachtbarkeit und Schutz für AI-Landschaften durch automatisierte Sicherheitsfunktionen. Verfügbar ab November, richtet sie sich speziell an umsatzstarke Umgebungen wie Teleklo und 5G-Infrastrukturen und unterstützt mehrere L7-Protokolle über HTTP hinaus.
- New product launch enhances AI application delivery efficiency
- Strategic partnership with NVIDIA strengthens market position
- Product addresses growing cloud-native infrastructure demand
- Solution reduces hardware footprint and optimizes energy consumption
- Improves infrastructure efficiency and resource utilization
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This strategic partnership represents a significant technological advancement in AI infrastructure optimization. The integration of F5's BIG-IP Next with NVIDIA's BlueField-3 DPUs addresses critical bottlenecks in AI workload management. Key technological advantages include:
- Enhanced data processing efficiency for large-scale AI models
- Reduced latency in AI inference operations
- Improved resource utilization through CPU offloading
The solution's ability to handle multi-billion-parameter AI models while maintaining security and performance is particularly valuable for enterprises scaling their AI operations. The November availability timeline positions F5 competitively in the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market, potentially driving significant enterprise adoption.
This partnership strengthens F5's market position in the burgeoning AI infrastructure sector. The timing is strategic, as service providers and enterprises are rapidly scaling their AI capabilities. The collaboration with NVIDIA, a leader in AI computing, adds significant credibility and technical capability to F5's offering. The focus on Kubernetes environments aligns with the industry shift toward cloud-native infrastructure, particularly in 5G deployments. This positions F5 to capture market share in the growing cloud-native network functions (CNFs) segment, potentially driving revenue growth in the coming quarters.
F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, F5’s new intelligent proxy, combined with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, transforms application delivery for AI workloads
The solution harnesses the power of high-performance NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs to enhance the efficiency of data center traffic that is critical to large-scale AI deployments. With an integrated view of networking, traffic management, and security, customers will be able to maximize data center resource utilization while achieving optimal AI application performance. This not only improves infrastructure efficiency but also enables faster, more responsive AI inference, ultimately delivering an enhanced AI-driven customer experience.
F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes is a purpose-built solution for Kubernetes environments that has been proven in large-scale telco cloud and 5G infrastructures. With BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, this technology is now tailored for leading AI use cases such as inference, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and seamless data management and storage. The integration with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs minimizes hardware footprint, enables granular multi-tenancy, and optimizes energy consumption while delivering high-performance networking, security, and traffic management.
The combination of F5 and NVIDIA technologies allows both mobile and fixed-line telco service providers to ease the transition to cloud-native (Kubernetes) infrastructure, addressing the growing demand for vendors to adapt their functions to a cloud-native network functions (CNFs) model. F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes offloads data-heavy tasks to the BlueField-3 DPUs, freeing up CPU resources for revenue-generating applications. The solution is particularly beneficial at the network edge for virtualized RAN (vRAN) or DAA for MSO, and in the core network for 5G, enabling future potential for 6G.
Designed specifically for high-demand service providers and large-scale infrastructures, F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes:
- Streamlines delivery of AI services at cloud scale: BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes seamlessly integrates with customers' front-end networks, significantly reducing latency while delivering high-performance load balancing to handle the immense data demands of multi-billion-parameter AI models and trillions of operations.
- Enhances control of AI deployments: The solution offers a centralized integration point into modern AI networks with rich observability and fine-grained information. BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes supports multiple L7 protocols beyond HTTP, ensuring enhanced ingress and egress control at very high performance.
- Protects the new AI landscape: Customers can fully automate the discovery and security of AI training and inference endpoints. BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes also isolates AI applications from targeted threats, bolstering data integrity and sovereignty while addressing the encryption capabilities critical for modern AI environments.
Availability for BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes running on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs will begin in November. Additional information can also be found in a companion blog post from F5.
Supporting Quotes:
- “The proliferation of AI has catalyzed an unprecedented demand for advanced semiconductors and technologies. Organizations are building out AI factories, highly optimized environments designed to train large AI models and deliver the requisite processing power for inference scale at an astounding rate, and with minimal latency. The synergy between F5’s robust application delivery and security services and NVIDIA’s full-stack accelerated computing creates a powerful ecosystem. This integration provides customers with enhanced observability, granular control, and optimized performance for their AI workloads across the entire stack, from the hardware acceleration layer to the application interface.” - Kunal Anand, Chief Technology and AI Officer at F5
- “Service providers and enterprises require accelerated computing to deliver high-performance AI applications securely and efficiently at cloud scale. NVIDIA is working with F5 to accelerate AI application delivery, better ensuring peak efficiency and seamless user experiences powered by BlueField-3 DPUs.” - Ash Bhalgat, Sr. Director of AI Networking and Security Partnerships at NVIDIA
- “Realizing the potential of AI requires more data processing capabilities than the industry had previously prepared for. For many companies, deploying cutting-edge AI requires massive infrastructure buildouts that tend to be very complex and expensive, making efficient and secure operations more important than ever. F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes addresses performance and security concerns for large-scale AI infrastructure. By delivering optimized traffic management, organizations gain greater data ingestion performance and server utilization during AI model inferencing. This leads to a vastly improved customer experience for AI application users.” - Kuba Stolarski, Research Vice President, Computing Systems Research Practice at IDC
- “The explosion of AI workloads has created a new wave of massive demand for scalable, optimized, and enhanced control of Kubernetes ingress and egress. With F5 now delivering the established benefits of BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes directly on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, this unleashes an already proven technology now deployable at an ideal insertion point for large-scale AI deployments. WWT clients will be able to benefit from greater data ingestion performance and GPU utilization during model training and better user experiences during inference, while gaining a strategic control point for security services. Technology from F5 and NVIDIA—two of our most strategic partnerships—further strengthens our Global Cyber mission to deliver digital security excellence.” - Todd Hathaway, Global Practice Manager, AI, App, and API Security Solutions at WWT
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