F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs RioRey comparison

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is a high-performance, full-proxy network security solution designed to protect networks and data centers against incoming threats that enter the network. Built on F5’s industry-leading BIG-IP hardware and software platforms, BIG-IP AFM provides a scalable platform that delivers the flexible performance and control needed to mitigate aggressive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and protocol attacks before they overwhelm and degrade applications and infrastructure availability.

For service providers, BIG-IP AFM IPS does even more, protecting the network edge and performing traffic inspection and protocol adherence for prevalent service provider protocols such as SS7, Diameter, HTTP/2, GTP, SCTP and SIP traffic coming into the network over UDP, TCP, and SCTP.

RioRey is a leader in building some of the best performing DDoS defense systems for automatically detecting and mitigating DDoS attacks. Installed all over the world, RioRey solutions are highly intelligent and analytic-driven, and are designed for networks of all sizes and meet the most rigorous security requirements of major enterprises, large service providers and Telco environments. 

RioRey's scalable, multi-layer DDoS defense solutions combine powerful on-premise protection with an on-demand cloud-based scrubbing service to combat the full spectrum of DDoS attacks, including stealthy Layer 7 application attacks and large scale volumetric attacks.