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The VIPRION
®
4800 Series Platform
About the platform
The VIPRION
®
4800 Series system provides you with the flexibility and feature-rich capabilities of F5
®
products on a powerful and highly-extensible hardware platform. With this platform, you install and configure
multiple F5 products using hot-swappable blades. This provides you with the ability to add, remove, or
change the platform's configuration to best fit your network. Many components are available for you to add,
remove, or change including the blades, power supplies, fan tray, LCD panel, and more. This configuration
allows for an extremely robust and flexible system that can manage large amounts of application traffic,
and remain operational even if one of its components goes offline.
VIPRION platforms include two types of components: blades, which provide the hardware and software
needed to manage network traffic, and a chassis, which houses the blades.
Important: The chassis and blades are shipped in separate boxes. The blades are not designed to be shipped
inside a chassis.
Although the VIPRION 4800 Series platform is highly extensible and designed to be easy to implement,
familiarity with the platform components can help ensure that you install and integrate the platform
successfully and effectively.
About the chassis
The chassis is the housing unit that contains all of the components necessary for the VIPRION
®
4800 Series
platform to operate effectively.
The VIPRION C4800 chassis, B4300 Series, and B4400 Series blades are available in DC-powered Network
Equipment-Building System (NEBS) compliant versions. For a system to be completely NEBS-compliant,
you must use a NEBS-compliant chassis and blades.