F5-BIG-AWF-R4800 Advanced Web Application Firewall

F5-BIG-AWF-R4800: Delivers Top-tier Protection for High-traffic Websites and API

The F5-BIG-AWF-R4800 is a performance-optimized, enterprise-grade WAF designed for the most demanding security environments. Compared to the flagship F5-BIG-AWF-R4600, the R4800 offers:

• 50% more SSL TPS (45K vs. 30K)
• 33% higher L7 throughput (40Gbps vs. 30Gbps)
• 33% more processing cores (16 vs. 12 vCPU)

These critical enhancements make the R4800 ideal for high-volume e-commerce, financial services, and large-scale API-driven platforms requiring uncompromising security and scalability.

F5-BIG-AWF-R4800 Features

High-Performance Encrypted Traffic Inspection
AWF-R4800 delivers 45,000 SSL TPS, ensuring deep visibility into encrypted HTTPS traffic. Its exceptional performance allows real-time inspection of high-volume, encrypted transactions, making it essential for industries where privacy, compliance, and security are paramount—like banking, payments, and e-commerce.

L7 Threat Protection at Scale
With 40Gbps of application-layer threat throughput and 16 processing cores, the AWF-R4800 enables high-speed enforcement of advanced security policies such as OWASP Top 10 mitigation, data loss prevention, and behavioral analysis—without slowing down your users.

Enhanced API Security for High-Traffic Environments
Designed to process up to 1.8 million L7 requests per second, it safeguards modern, high-scale API infrastructures. It performs schema validation, rate limiting, and real-time security policy execution to prevent API abuse and protect sensitive data.

Advanced Bot Mitigation
Built on a powerful platform with 64GB RAM and 16 vCPUs, it can apply intelligent bot protection techniques including client interrogation, behavior profiling, and AI/ML-driven analysis. It accurately detects and mitigates malicious bots, scrapers, and automated threats that target critical workflows.

F5-BIG-AWF-R4800 Datasheet

• L7 Threat Inspection Throughput: 40 Gbps
• SSL TPS (2K Keys): 45,000
• L7 Requests Per Second: 1.8M
• Memory: 64 GB DDR4
• Tenancy vCPUs: 16 Cores
• Primary Ports: 4x 10G RJ45, 4x 25G SFP28

Why choose AWF-R4800, not AWF-R4600?
The AWF-R4800 has significantly better performance. Choose it for higher traffic or more complex security policies. It offers 50% more SSL processing power (45K vs 30K TPS) and 33% more cores (16 vs 12 vCPUs) for threat inspection.

How does the R4800’s hardware compression benefit the AWF module?
Though AWF doesn’t do compression directly, the dedicated hardware compression chip frees up the main CPU. This lets the 16 vCPUs focus fully on security tasks like SSL decryption, threat analysis and bot detection, boosting overall security performance.

Can the F5-BIG-AWF-R4800 secure a high-volume API gateway?
Absolutely. It’s ideal for this. With 1.8 million Layer 7 requests per second handling capacity, it can inspect, validate and secure massive API calls, protecting backend services from various threats.

Is the AWF-R4800 powerful enough to stop zero-day attacks?
The F5-BIG-AWF-R4800’s powerful multi-core processor drives F5’s advanced behavioral analytics. By establishing a baseline of normal app behavior, it can detect and block anomalous requests indicating potential zero-day attacks, offering protection beyond traditional signature-based WAFs.