Back to All Partners F5 INVITE Networks is an authorized F5 partner, delivering application delivery, load balancing, and web application firewall (WAF) deployment and ongoing managed services for enterprise and mid-market organizations in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and the greater Mountain West. INVITE handles F5 BIG-IP architecture, implementation, policy configuration, and platform management — so your applications stay available, secure, and performing under load without requiring dedicated F5 expertise on staff. TL;DR: F5 provides enterprise-grade application delivery controllers, load balancers, and web application firewalls — protecting and accelerating applications across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. INVITE Networks deploys and manages F5 as a fully supported engagement, from initial architecture through ongoing policy management. This page is for IT directors and security leaders evaluating an F5 partner who can own the deployment and ongoing operations. What does INVITE Networks deliver as an F5 partner? As an authorized F5 partner, INVITE Networks provides end-to-end application delivery and security services — not just licensing. INVITE architects F5 BIG-IP environments for load balancing, SSL offloading, WAF, and application access management, then handles deployment and configuration across physical, virtual, and cloud-native form factors. For organizations in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and the greater Mountain West running business-critical applications that require high availability and protection against web-based attacks, INVITE brings the technical depth to deploy F5 correctly and manage it at scale. INVITE’s engagement model covers F5 architecture design, BIG-IP deployment and licensing, LTM and GTM configuration, SSL certificate management, WAF policy development, and APM access policy design. Post-deployment, INVITE’s managed services team handles ongoing F5 operations — managing WAF policy updates, certificate renewals, pool member changes, and platform health monitoring. Why do Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Mountain West organizations choose INVITE for F5? F5 BIG-IP is one of the most capable application delivery platforms available — and one of the most complex to operate. Organizations that deploy F5 without an experienced partner frequently run it in a degraded state: WAF policies left in logging-only mode, SSL offload misconfigured, and iRules never implemented. INVITE Networks gives Utah and Arizona organizations a partner who understands both the F5 platform and the application delivery requirements of production environments. A Salt Lake City-based healthcare system with 12 web-facing applications engaged INVITE to replace a legacy hardware load balancer with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition deployed across two redundant data centers. INVITE architected an active-active LTM configuration with GTM for geographic load balancing, deployed and tuned WAF policies for HIPAA-relevant web applications, and migrated all 12 applications with zero production downtime — then assumed ongoing managed operations for the F5 environment under a monthly services agreement. How does INVITE deploy and manage F5 as part of its managed services? INVITE follows a structured F5 deployment methodology: application discovery and requirements mapping, platform sizing and licensing, BIG-IP deployment and base configuration, application onboarding, WAF policy development and tuning, and operational handoff. The discovery phase maps each application’s availability requirements, SSL requirements, backend server pools, health monitor logic, and security posture — ensuring the F5 configuration matches production realities before go-live. Post-deployment, INVITE’s managed services team operates the F5 environment under SLA — handling WAF signature updates, certificate lifecycle management, pool health monitoring, and configuration change requests. INVITE integrates F5 into broader security programs, feeding WAF logs into SIEM platforms for threat correlation and connecting F5 APM into Zero Trust access policies. What F5 products does INVITE deploy and manage? INVITE Networks architects and deploys F5’s full application delivery and security portfolio based on each organization’s application environment. For application delivery, INVITE deploys F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for intelligent load balancing, health monitoring, SSL offloading, and connection optimization across on-premises and cloud environments. For global traffic management and DNS-based load balancing across multiple data centers or cloud regions, INVITE implements F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM/DNS). For application security, INVITE deploys and tunes F5 Advanced WAF — providing protection against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, bot mitigation, API security, and L7 DDoS protection. INVITE also deploys F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) for application access control, VPN replacement, and Zero Trust application access. Organizations moving to multi-cloud application environments can engage INVITE to implement F5 NGINX Plus as an API gateway and microservices load balancer, extending consistent application delivery policies into containerized and cloud-native architectures. Looking for an F5 partner who manages the platform, not just deploys it? Contact INVITE to discuss an F5 engagement for your organization. Frequently Asked Questions: F5 Application Delivery Is INVITE Networks an authorized F5 partner? Yes. INVITE Networks is an authorized F5 partner, with certified engineers trained in BIG-IP deployment, WAF policy management, and F5 application delivery architecture. INVITE provides F5 licensing, professional services, and ongoing managed support for organizations in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and surrounding markets. Can INVITE manage our F5 environment if we don’t have internal F5 expertise? Yes. INVITE’s managed services model is designed for organizations that need enterprise-grade application delivery and WAF capabilities without building internal F5 expertise. INVITE handles all ongoing F5 operations — WAF updates, certificate management, configuration changes, and health monitoring — under a defined SLA. How does INVITE tune F5 WAF policies to minimize false positives? INVITE deploys F5 Advanced WAF in transparent (logging) mode initially, capturing production traffic to identify legitimate requests that would trigger WAF rules. INVITE’s security team analyzes the baseline traffic, creates application-specific exceptions, and progressively tightens policies before moving to blocking mode — ensuring WAF protection is active without disrupting production applications. How long does an F5 BIG-IP deployment take with INVITE? A standard F5 deployment covering two BIG-IP instances in an HA pair with LTM and WAF, onboarding up to 10 applications, typically completes in four to eight weeks. More complex deployments involving GTM, APM, or large application portfolios may run ten to fourteen weeks. INVITE provides a project plan with defined milestones during the discovery phase.
