F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, Standalone/ELA/Subscription - Direct / AWS CPPO
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VEs) are application delivery controllers that can be deployed on all leading hypervisors and cloud platforms. BIG-IP VEs provide advanced traffic management, WAF, DNS, and IAM.
Multiple VE's can be purchased using an ELA for additional savings.
Features
- Market leading Application Delivery Services
- Achieve automation and orchestration in cloud architectures
- Optimize application and security services
- Provide flexibility deployment
- Deploy with increased agility
- BYOL capability
Benefits
- Deploy Applications in the Leading Public Clouds
- Application Mobility Across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
- Consistent App Delivery and Security for Public Cloud
- Integration with SDN Frameworks
- Automation and Orchestration Through Granular Programmability
Pricing
£100 to £500,000 a unit
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 13
Service ID
3 0 4 6 7 4 7 8 2 8 7 2 9 4 8
Contact
FullProxy Ltd
Chris Templeton / Ewan Ferguson
Telephone: 0141 291 5500
Email: g-cloud@fullproxy.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Community cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- None
- System requirements
-
- Requirements differ depending on VE purchased, Hypervisor and Cloud Platform
- Minimum requirements are available at f5.com
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support response times
-
Response time SLAs are negotiable with the client
For full information: https://fullproxy.com/support/ - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Yes, at an extra cost
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- N/A
- Web chat accessibility testing
- N/A
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
-
Access to F5 Support differs with contract purchased. F5 Support are available 24x7x365
For full information: https://fullproxy.com/support/ - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
-
Pre-sales consultancy
Online training
User documentation - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- No user data is retained as part of the service.
- End-of-contract process
- Renewal notice issued 90 days prior to contract end date.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- No
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- Configuration, Analysis
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
-
- Open API (also known as Swagger)
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- Configuration of the BIG-IP VE will be unique to the application environment it supports.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- The underlying resources (CPU and Memory) are under the control of the client and can be extended if required within the Hypervisor or Cloud. The product is sold based on bandwidth therefore a client may have to purchase bandwidth upgrades if usage goes beyond initially anticipated levels.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- There are a great number of metrics that can be viewed in the GUI or from the CLI - Virtual Server, Pool, Pool member and Node usage, TPS, SSL Connections for example.
- Reporting types
-
- API access
- Real-time dashboards
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- F5 Networks
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Managed by a third party
- Penetration testing frequency
- Never
- Protecting data at rest
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
-
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Configuration data can be archived in a compressed multi-file archive or single file format and downloaded. The API can also be used to export the config.
- Data export formats
- Other
- Other data export formats
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- UCS (zip)
- SCF
- Data import formats
- Other
- Other data import formats
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- UCS (zip)
- SCF
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Availability of a BIG-IP VE is the responsibility of the client.
- Approach to resilience
- Available on request
- Outage reporting
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Email / SMS API alerts
For full information: https://fullproxy.com/support/
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Role based access control
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- QMS International Ltd
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 30/11/2022
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- Cyber Essentials Plus
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- Other
- Other security governance standards
- Cyber Essentials Plus
- Information security policies and processes
- All staff comply with FullProxy's own Information Security Policy
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- F5 Networks can provide documentation on their configuration and change management approach on request.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- F5 Networks can provide documentation on their vulnerability management approach on request.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- F5 Networks can provide documentation on their proactive monitoring approach on request.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- F5 Networks can provide documentation on their incident management approach on request.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
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Fighting climate change
FullProxy position can be provided upon request - Covid-19 recovery
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Covid-19 recovery
FullProxy position can be provided upon request - Tackling economic inequality
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Tackling economic inequality
FullProxy position can be provided upon request - Equal opportunity
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Equal opportunity
FullProxy position can be provided upon request - Wellbeing
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Wellbeing
FullProxy position can be provided upon request
Pricing
- Price
- £100 to £500,000 a unit
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- Full featured, time limited trial license.