F5 Unleashes Innovation with Powerful New AI Capabilities on BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs

For most organizations and particularly large ones, like financial services, telcos, and healthcare companies with complex legacy systems, agentic AI holds strong appeal. Built on LLMs, these AI agents can navigate complex databases, servers, tools, and applications to retrieve precise information, unlocking new levels of efficiency and insight.

Introduced by Anthropic in November 2024, MCP is transforming how AI systems interact with real-world data, tools, and services. Acting as standardized connectors, MCP servers enable AI models to access APIs, databases, and file systems in real time, allowing AI to transcend the limitations of static training data and execute tasks efficiently. As adoption grows, these servers require advanced reverse proxies with load balancing, strong security, authentication, authorization for data and tools as well as seamless Kubernetes integration, making MCP a key pillar of sovereign AI infrastructure and securing and enabling agentic AI.

Deployed as a reverse proxy in front of the MCP servers, BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes deployed on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs can scale and secure MCP servers, verifying requests, classifying data, checking their integrity and privacy-thereby protecting both organizations and LLMs from security threats and data leaks. Meanwhile, F5 programmability makes it straightforward to ensure the AI application complies with the requirements of MCP and other protocols.