In an administrator's environment, the administrator wants to inspect a high volume of SSL traffic. What should be used for this task?

BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) is designed for DNS-based global server load balancing and intelligent traffic steering, not for SSL decryption or deep packet inspection.

A BIG-IP standard virtual edition runs entirely in software without dedicated hardware SSL acceleration, making it unsuitable for high-volume SSL inspection compared to a physical appliance.

BIG-IP LTM is specifically engineered for application delivery and traffic management, including SSL/TLS termination using dedicated hardware SSL acceleration chips (ASICs). These ASICs allow LTM to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt large volumes of SSL traffic at line rate without saturating the CPU. A physical LTM appliance provides the throughput and processing capacity required for high-volume SSL inspection workloads.

BIG-IP virtual edition with FIPS is configured for Federal Information Processing Standards cryptographic compliance, not for high-throughput SSL traffic inspection workloads.