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F5, a global leader in application delivery and security, announced major updates to its Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) at AppWorld. The enhancements include F5 Insight for unified observability and proactive intelligence, support for agentic AI workloads, future-ready post-quantum cryptography (PQC), advanced API protection, and simplified packaging for F5 Distributed Cloud Services, helping organizations simplify operations, strengthen security, and accelerate secure AI adoption across hybrid, multicloud, and edge environments.
F5 Insight, a new XOps component of ADSP, transforms scattered telemetry into clear operational narratives and next-best actions. Leveraging OpenTelemetry and MCP integration with popular LLMs, it provides real-time monitoring across application and infrastructure layers in hybrid/multicloud setups.
Key benefits include:
Available now for BIG-IP (self-managed), with SaaS expansion planned and future integration across NGINX and Distributed Cloud Services.
Building on v21.0, BIG-IP v21.1 targets Q2 2026 general availability with enhancements for AI workloads and cryptographic readiness:
F5 NGINX now inspects MCP metadata in traffic to monitor AI agent behavior, surfacing request patterns, latency, throughput, and errors for known and shadow AI activity. This single-gateway approach reduces tool sprawl and enables unified governance across applications, APIs, and AI workloads.
Available immediately in NGINX Open Source, with enterprise features in NGINX Plus.
New Essentials and Enterprise starter packages bundle integrated CDN, API security, and other capabilities, replacing dozens of SKUs with value-driven bundles to simplify SaaS adoption and infrastructure convergence.
“Most operations teams are stuck babysitting complexity they did not sign up for,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5. “They have a dozen tools, a thousand alerts, and not enough signal. F5 ADSP collapses that mess into a platform. With F5 Insight, we turn scattered telemetry into a clear story and the next best action. Then we extend that foundation for agentic AI workloads and future-focused cryptography, because the infrastructure is changing, ready or not.”
“F5 is addressing operational challenges while also enabling more effective AI application deployments and proactively preparing for future needs,” said Paul Nicholson, Research VP, Cloud and Datacenter Networks at IDC. “A key highlight is F5 Insight, which delivers the visibility and actionable intelligence customers require, with notable AI capabilities. Combined with MCP enhancements for AI applications and PQC support, F5 is meeting requirements for modern applications.”
These updates position F5 ADSP as a unified, future-ready platform for secure, observable application delivery in AI-driven environments.
About F5
F5, Inc., is the global leader that delivers and secures every app. Backed by three decades of expertise, F5 has built the industry’s premier platform—F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP)—to deliver and secure every app, every API, anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and across hybrid, multicloud environments. F5 is committed to innovating and partnering with the world’s largest and most advanced organizations to deliver fast, available, and secure digital experiences. Together, we help each other thrive and bring a better digital world to life.
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