F5 BIG-IP CNF Solutions for Red Hat OpenShift - Overview / 5G user plane - the Gi/N6 LAN

F5 BIG-IP Next CNF Solutions is a suite of Kubernetes native 5G Network Functions for the user plane at the N6/Gi LAN reference point. These Network Functions are:

- F5 Next Edge Firewall CNF, an IPv4/IPv6 firewall with the main focus in protecting the 5G core networks from external threads, including DDoS flood protection and IPS DNS protocol inspection.

- F5 Next CGNAT CNF, which offers large scale NAT with the following features:
NAPT, Port Block Allocation, Static NAT, Address Pooling Paired, and Endpoint Independent mapping modes.
- Inbound NAT and Hairpining.
- Egress path filtering and address exclusions.
- ALG support: FTP/FTPS, TFTP, RTSP and PPTP.

- F5 Next DNS CNF, which offers a transparent DNS resolver and caching services. Other remarkable features are:
- Zero rating
- DNS64 which allows IPv6-only clients connect to IPv4-only services via synthetic IPv6 addresses.

- F5 Next Policy Enforcer CNF, which provides traffic classification, steering and shaping, and TCP and video optimization. This product is launched as Early Access in February 2023 with basic functionalities. Static TCP optimization is now GA in the initial release.

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