F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform | ADSP

The ADC originated as marketing terminology, promoted by F5, later adopted by other competing vendors and became industry standard term. Term ADC is used to describe an evolved version of Load Balancers, devices that not only distributed the traffic but also accelerated, secured, and optimized application flows between clients and servers for last decades.

Now it’s time for revolution and just before celebrating its 30th Anniversary, F5 brought to world Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) as the culmination of three decades F5 evolving Load Balancer through Application Delivery and Security to new era of Applications, Microservices and AI workloads across every datacenter, cloud and edge.

ADSP is the F5’s answer for current applications complexity and offering a single application delivery and security platform that converges all required capabilities into one logical control plane across BIG‑IP, Distributed Cloud, NGINX and cloud‑native environments.

In short, what ADSP brings together?

• Global app delivery and traffic management, from Data Center through Cloud to Edge, including traffic optimization for new generation AI Data Centers
• Complete security including Web application and API protection (WAAP), Bot defense, API and AI security
• Identity‑aware access and Zero Trust Applications and API Access Controls for users and services
• Central policy, automation, and observability for hybrid and multi‑cloud deployments

We in Alef are prod distributor of F5 and we are looking forward using ADSP solutions to help you entering new era of Application Delivery and Security, helping you with your traditional Applications but also looking to the future and help you optimize the investments into AI datacenters, securing AI runtimes, prepare you against new threads using PQG (Post-Quantum Cryptography) safe encryption and many more.

Do you think the abbreviation ADSP will become as famous as ADC is? Only time will tell, but what we are sure already is that F5 is on the right track with this product (r)evolution …