OPTIMIZE, SECURE, AND MONETIZE YOUR NETWORK F5 ® Synthesis ™ is an architectural vision that enables communications service providers (SPs) to deliver services to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 Synthesis transforms the economics, experience, and enablement for SPs with a broad portfolio of carrier-grade solutions that deliver intelligent mobile and fixed broadband services, multilayered dynamic mobile security, and unprecedented scale and extensibility on a unified, multiservice platform. This platform allows SPs to simplify their network, increase the velocity of new services, reduce capital and operating costs, improve security for better service performance, and deliver new business models to increase ARPU. F5 platforms offer any-service-on-any-blade provisioning and are network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) ready, enabling SPs to deploy a flexible and dynamic service architecture that can respond efficiently to traffic conditions and planning requirements across the application, control, and data planes. Data Plane Control Plane Application Plane Secure Device Access Fixed Core Mobile Core Femtocell/ WiFi Security Gateway VM Management and Orchestration Network Optimization and VAS Network Services GERAN UTRAN Fixed Line BTS NodeB eNodeB E-UTRAN Gb Gb lu-PS S12 S1 Cable DSL FTTH Access Node CMTS/BRAS/BNG IP Aggregation SGW SGSN MME GGSN/ PGW Gn S4 S3 S11 S5 S8 Gi SGi VM VM VM Hypervisor Web and Video Caching VM VM VM Hypervisor Video Transcoding and Optimization VM VM VM Hypervisor Content Streaming VM VM VM Hypervisor Content Delivery Networking VM VM VM Hypervisor WAP Gateways VM VM VM Hypervisor URL Filtering Border Gateway IPv4/IPv6 Apps/Enterprise Content IPv4/IPv6 Internet Diameter Signaling Solutions IMS and Non-IMS Control Visited PLMN Lawful Intercept Policy and Subscriber Mgmt. Carrier DNS Solutions Local DNS Authoritative DNS Infrastructure DNS HSS V-PCRF MME Logging Warrant/ Mediation X-CSCF SBC/SPG SPR OCS OFCS SLF PCRF AAA/HSS Middleware App Control DNS Gx/Sd Gy XML S6a Gz Camel S9 DNSSEC Cache/ DNS64/ DNS Cache DNSSEC Cache/ DNS64/ Auth DNS/ DNS Cache Auth DNS/ DNS Cache MAP S6a JMS LDAP S9 Gx/Sd Gz GTP’ Gy XML Rx Diameter RADIUS S6a HTTP XML SIP OpenStack API XML Logging Mirroring Access Carrier VAS Cloud/Hosting IMS Solutions and Apps Non-IMS Solutions and Apps Data Center Application Solutions Hypervisor Virtual Applications/ Desktops VE VE VE VDI VDI VDI APP APP STRG VOD/ AOD OpenStack API HTTP SOAP OpenStack API HTTP SOAP HTTP SOAP XML Rx HTTP SOAP XML Rx HTTP Hypervisor APP APP APP IMS Applications Rx SIP VAS Applications Hypervisor STRG APP APP STRG Messaging SMS/MMS/ IM Customer Portals IPTV/ DVR Advanced Security F5 Synthesis transforms the economics, experience, and enablement for SPs Consolidated Architecture Before F5 After F5 Load Balancing PGW/ GGSN Internet Firewall Policy Enforcement CGNAT PGW/GGSN Internet Virtual Edition and VIPRION F5 Value Proposition Flexible and Simplified Network Architecture NFV and SDN Ready Context-Aware Intelligence for Visibility and Control Carrier-Grade Hardware and Virtual Editions Global 24x7 Support and Knowledge Services Network Services Monetization Fast and Scalable Security Expert Consulting and Advanced Professional Services Optimize Secure Monetize ∙ Silo Approach by Network Services ∙ Cost Inefficiency ∙ No Flexibility, Scalability ∙ NFV and SDN Ready ∙ Improved Cost Efficiency ∙ Highly Programmable, Flexible, and Scalable Traditional Network Adaptive Network Infrastructure Security Performance Availability Mobility F5 Service Provider Solutions For additional information, contact your F5 representative at f5.com/sales. Version 3.0: POST-SP-24172-2014 Optimize Your Network AAA scaling and security Application acceleration CGNAT Cloud and virtualization Content delivery networking Context-aware policy enforcement Control plane HA and DR DHCP scaling and security Diameter interworking (SS7, LDAP, RADIUS, GTP’, JMS) Diameter routing and load balancing DNS carrier solutions and caching TCP optimization URL filtering and reporting VAS cloud bursting/dynamic services VAS load balancing WAP 2.0 offloading DNS logging and reporting DNS scaling and security Header enrichment High availability and disaster recovery Intelligent traffic management IPv6 transition (DS-Lite, AFTR, 6RD) IXC consolidation IXC to DC network optimization Logging and legal intercept Machine-to-machine (M2M) Network functions virtualization (NFV) Policy and subscriber management RAN congestion management SIP/IMS scaling and security Subscriber and application reporting Monetize Your Network Context-aware policy enforcement Intelligent LTE roaming Header enrichment Intelligent traffic management Policy and subscriber management Shared data plans Subscriber location function VAS cloud bursting/dynamic services Voice over LTE (VoLTE) Secure Your Network AAA scaling and security DHCP scaling and security DNS scaling and security Diameter Edge Agent Internet DC and Gi/SGi firewall Logging and legal intercept Mobile application management Remote access and single sign-on (SSL and IPsec VPN) SIP/IMS scaling and security SSL server offload Web application and XML firewall