F5 Global Traffic Manager (GTM)®

F5 Global Traffic Manager (GTM)

System Professional have a track record in the successful delivery of F5's appliances to enterprise customers, ensuring the high availability of key applications and services for both global and local traffic.

Business Challenge

What's the use of having multiple data centers if there's not an intelligent way to route the user to the best site?

Solution Overview

While DNS can point a user to a data centre, BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) can automatically direct users to the closest or best-performing data centre.

You can realise the full potential of multiple data centres by using BIG-IP GTM to provide seamless disaster recovery and routing based on quality of service or business criteria.

Disaster Recovery

When users try to access a data centre that is overloaded or unreachable, BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager automatically and seamlessly directs them to a secondary data centre location. The user isn't even aware of the switch - they could be accessing a data centre at corporate headquarters, in another city, or on another continent.

This capability makes BIG-IP GTM especially important for enterprises that need to maintain operations in the event of a natural disaster, power failure, or any other large-scale service disruption.

SOA Application Management

Distributed applications may rely on several Web servers, application servers, and databases that work in parallel. BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager automates the process of tracking and managing the dependencies between individual application services, helping to achieve high availability, persistence, and maintenance for these applications.

It eliminates the guesswork, errors, and inefficiencies related to manual management, so you have a holistic framework to manage all application services across multiple sites.

Global Business Criteria Management

Global enterprises often have data centres spread throughout the world. So why send a user in Sydney to the New York data centre when there's one in Singapore? BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager uses topology-based load balancing to inspect a user's IP and determine the most efficient data centre. The topology could be based on continent, country, ISP, or custom IP subnet level.

BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager is available as a standalone version, and also as a product module for BIG-IP.