A new point of presence (PoP) site in the UAE expands the global reach for F5 Distributed Cloud Services; a purpose-built cloud-native platform that connects and secures distributed applications, ensuring high performance and carrier-grade reliability.
F5 is set to expand its global network presence with a new point of presence (PoP) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Scheduled to launch in early 2024, the PoP is part of a purpose-built cloud-native platform that connects and secures distributed applications in multi-cloud and edge environments.
“Optimized for app-to-app connectivity and security, our PoPs stand out in the market by consolidating multiple services across monolithic and microservices apps. This significantly simplifies app management, security, and network connectivity across distributed infrastructures. The ability to manage and protect application workloads via an F5 PoP will be hugely beneficial for our existing, and future, customers across the region,” said Mohammed Abukhater, RVP for the Middle East, Türkiye and Africa, F5.
It also gives customers the capability to offload high-performance or latency-sensitive workloads, and functions as a distributed control plane with software running on the customer’s edge or cloud site. Furthermore, the Distributed Cloud Platform provides routing, SD-WAN termination, load balancing, multi-layer security, Kubernetes-based app orchestration, and a globally distributed app gateway – accessible from every PoP on the F5 global network.
