(F5 also offers SSL VPN clients-F5 Access clients-for Apple iOS, and Google Android, and Chrome OS platforms. F5 Edge Client is available on Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows. The F5 Edge Client secures remote access for home and remote workers.

It is used with BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), F5’s secure, highly-scalable access management proxy solution that provides centralized access control to applications and APIs, and also enables Zero Trust application access when configured for identity aware proxy (IAP). For those of you not familiar with the F5 Edge Client, it is an SSL VPN client that is used to provide access to enterprise networks for employees working from home or remote locations. More details at Specification.F5 recently released a new version of the F5 Edge Client (v7.2.1). Multi-languages (English, Japanese and Simplified-Chinese). Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone are supported as a VPN client. 1Gbps-class high-speed throughput performance with low memory and CPU usage. Sufficient security features such as logging and firewall inner VPN tunnel. AES 256-bit and RSA 4096-bit encryptions.

Embedded dynamic-DNS and NAT-traversal so that no static nor fixed IP address is required. Ethernet-bridging (L2) and IP-routing (元) over VPN. Resistance to highly-restricted firewall. Revolutionary VPN over ICMP and VPN over DNS features. SSL-VPN Tunneling on HTTPS to pass through NATs and firewalls. * Features of SoftEther VPN Client - Easy to establish both remote-access and site-to-site VPN. Of course, traditional IP-routing 元 based VPN can be built by SoftEther VPN. You can easily build both Remote-Access VPN and Site-to-Site VPN, as expansion of Ethernet-based L2 VPN. SoftEther VPN Client implements Virtual Network Adapter, and SoftEther VPN Server implements Virtual Ethernet Switch. It virtualizes Ethernet by software-enumeration. Easy to imagine, design and implement your VPN topology with SoftEther VPN. Any deep-packet inspection firewalls cannot detect SoftEther VPN's transport packets as a VPN tunnel, because SoftEther VPN uses Ethernet over HTTPS for camouflage. You can setup your own VPN server behind the firewall or NAT in your company, and you can reach to that VPN server in the corporate private network from your home or mobile place, without any modification of firewall settings. Built-in NAT-traversal penetrates your network admin's troublesome firewall for overprotection. SoftEther VPN Client implements SSL-VPN (Ethernet over HTTPS) protocol for very fast throughput, low latency and firewall resistance. SoftEther VPN Client ('SoftEther' means 'Software Ethernet') is powerful and easy-to-use VPN client for connecting to SoftEther VPN Server.

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