hicloud F5 | Cloud security application service


Chunghwa Telecom + F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc. is a transnational company that specializes in application delivery networking (ADN). It provides more secure, fast and practical application system access service to its clients. F5 Networks dramatically reduce the system loading of networking service via newly intelligent management function. Therefore, the powerful intelligent network can apply to all levels of transportation for application systems.
Also, F5 improves the performance of the application system to increase the reliability and protect application system and internet security.

•　Autonomous control

  • The native F5 operation interface let clients get the hang of it quickly without learning again, and keep the user experience is the same to your local server.

•　Multiple options

This solution is integrated into the hicloud management platform. Clients can simply deploy and subscribe F5 networks via the UI interface, and select different services according to the requirement of transmission performance (200Mbps / 1Gbps / 3Gbps). The offering services as following:

  1. SLB(BIG-IP LTM)

  2. GSLB(BIG-IP DNS)

  3. Firewall&L3/L4 DDOS(BIG-IP AFM)

  4. WAF&L7 DDOS(BIG-IP ASM)

•　Acquisition of Services

  • Clients can flexibly choose F5 related application services via online rental and enjoy the service immediately.

•　Pricing

  • Monthly plan (daily plan comes soon)

•　Architecture

•　Customer service

  • Chunghwa Telecom's own professional operation and maintenance team, providing a 7 × 24 customer service window to deal with the reporting issue from clients. If clients need IT outsourcing service, Chunghwa Telecom also provides agent construction service and agent maintenance service. Also, clients can purchase technical supporting service from the system to setup service and adjust the policy of firewall for the application.

  • Complete technical support and after-sales service.

•　One stop shopping

  • Chunghwa Telecom's hicloud includes IaaS services (CaaS / CVPC), and related security value-added services such as IPS / DDOS and F5 cloud security application services. All of which can be selected from the hicloud platform via one-stop shopping service. Maintenance and purchasing personnel do not need to manage multiple vendors at the same time, only obtain services and billing through Chunghwa Telecom.

•　Features

Feature Good Better Best
BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™
Load balancing and monitoring ✔ ✔ ✔
Application visibility and monitoring ✔ ✔ ✔
L7 intelligent traffic management ✔ ✔ ✔
Core protocol optimization (HTTP, TCP, HTTP/2, SSL) ✔ ✔ ✔
SSL proxy and services ✔ ✔ ✔
IPv6 support ✔ ✔ ✔
Programmability (iRules®, iCall™, iControl®, iApps®) ✔ ✔ ✔
ScaleN™ (on-demand scaling of performance and capacity) ✔ ✔ ✔
BIG-IP® APM® Lite (user authentication, SSL VPN for 10 concurrent users) ✔ ✔ ✔
SYN flood DDoS protection ✔ ✔ ✔
BIG-IP® DNS
Global server load balancing ✔ ✔
DNS services ✔ ✔
Real-time DNSSEC solution ✔ ✔
Global application high availability ✔ ✔
Geolocation ✔ ✔
DNS DDoS attack prevention ✔ ✔
BIG-IP® Advanced Firewall Manager™
High-performance ICSA firewall ✔ ✔
Network DDoS protection ✔ ✔
Application-centric firewall policies ✔ ✔
Protocol anomaly detection ✔ ✔
BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™
PCI-compliant web application firewall ✔
Web scraping prevention ✔
Integrated XML firewall ✔
Violation correlation and incident grouping ✔
Application DDoS protection ✔