What is Traffic Management?

Traffic management is the process of prioritizing, shaping and routing network traffic to ensure that critical applications remain available.

A comprehensive approach to traffic management encompasses load balancing and rate shaping, as well as measures to ensure QoS and network availability.

The F5 BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager is a comprehensive, single-unit solution for traffic management within a network. BIG-IP DNS handles traffic management across network boundaries.

F5 products that support Traffic Management: BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, BIG-IP DNS