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L7 Rate Shaping^™

When there is too much traffic on the network, organizations usually don't have a way to guarantee that high-priority traffic goes ahead of low-priority traffic. The BIG-IP^® L7 Rate Shaping Module gives you fine-grained bandwidth control to better handle traffic spikes.

Assured Application Performance and Availability

Ensures that low-priority traffic doesn't interfere with critical business applications. Optimizes performance of higher priority applications by reserving bandwidth for them.

Reduced Device Costs

Simplifies traffic management and eliminates the need for special-purpose rate shaping products.

Sophisticated Bandwidth Control

Provides flexible bandwidth limits, full support for bandwidth borrowing, and traffic queuing (through stochastic fair queuing and FIFO ToS priority queuing).

Granular Traffic Classification L2 through L7

Controls rate classes based on any traffic variable. Allows application bandwidth to be shared across applications that have similar priorities, for better resource sharing.

Rate Limiting

Ensures that specific types of application traffic stay within a set limit, providing a valuable security measure

BIG-IP Feature Modules:

• Advanced Client Authentication
• Advanced Routing
• Fast Cache
• Intelligent Compression
• IPv6 Gateway
• L7 Rate Shaping
• Message Security Module
• Protocol Security Module
• SSL Acceleration