F5 Networks, Inc. announced new security offerings designed to safeguard organizations' network and application infrastructures. With the introduction of BIG-IP(R) Advanced Firewall Manager(TM) and enhancements to other security offerings, F5 provides the industry's fast and most scalable application delivery firewall solution. F5's firewall solution is the first in the industry to unify a network firewall with traffic management, application security, user access management, and DNS security capabilities within an intelligent services framework.

When deployed with F5's new VIPRION(R) 4800 hardware, the F5(R) application delivery firewall solution provides performance levels well beyond what other vendors can offer, including: 640 Gbps of firewall throughput, 288 million concurrent sessions, 8 million connections per second.