F5 Solution Profiles

Automate Configuration of Application Networking Services in the Cloud

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:39:00 EDT

Cloud computing can help organizations provide better services while reducing costs and streamlining IT. But the provisioning, managing, and monitoring of applications and services requires cooperation among many areas of IT to configure services, and this heightened coordination and manual provisioning can lead to deployment delays and errors. F5 BIG-IQ Cloud, a comprehensive application networking services management solution for private, public, and hybrid clouds, addresses orchestration problems and automates application networking services in cloud deployments.

Diameter Signaling and the SS7 Interworking Function

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:45:34 EDT

As communications service providers (CSPs) build next-generation 4G LTE networks, they're challenged with managing many architectural design changes in the new network core as they must integrate old and new elements seamlessly. The F5 Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller (SDC) provides an SS7 interworking function (IWF) that allows you to create interoperability between legacy and Diameter signaling elements. This is essential to making a smooth transition to 4G LTE, for roaming, and to preserving your existing investments.

Optimizing Oracle Data Backup with NetApp C-Mode SnapMirror and F5 BIG-IP WOM

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:14:57 EDT

F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager (WOM) enables optimization of data replication by NetApp C-Mode SnapMirror and reduces replication time to disaster recovery sites. Save time and money by adding inline deduplication, security, and adaptive compression to SnapMirror optimization with BIG-IP WOM.

Improving IBM Tivoli Maximo with the F5 BIG-IP System

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:35:47 EDT

Maximo is IBM's asset management package designed to handle the most demanding installations. Often, the most demanding environments require multiple Maximo servers to manage the assets placed into the system. The F5 BIG-IP system, a Ready for Tivoli certified architecture for making Maximo installations secure, fast, and available, can resolve the issues that degrade Maximo's performance.

Securing Your Network with BIG-IP Firewall Solutions for Service Providers

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:51:51 EST

Service providers constantly defend against security threats that increase costs and operational complexity, and that have a negative effect on network performance and the customer experience. To address these challenges, F5 offers a native, high-performance firewall solution that helps protect the entire infrastructure and scales to perform under the most demanding conditions. F5 brings together the network, applications, data, and users under a single security solution that traditional firewalls and point solutions cannot offer.

TCP Optimization for Wireless Networks

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:05:24 EST

Improving data delivery at the wireless radio area network (RAN) end of the communication path can help communications service providers (CSPs) boost network efficiency and deliver higher quality of experience (QoE) to subscribers. F5 TCP Express, a feature of the BIG-IP platform, uses state-of-the-art TCP optimization algorithms and techniques to dramatically improve performance across real-world subscriber access networks, and to deliver significantly higher QoE.

Take Control of Diameter Signaling to Grow Your Network

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:56:18 EST

Subscriber demand for bandwidth-hungry apps has accelerated the use of mobile services and data on your network. Even as you evolve your network to 4G LTE to meet demand, Diameter signaling-which acts as the central nervous system of your network in controlling data sessions and supporting traffic policies-is exploding in volume and complexity. This can slow down your network's performance and limit your growth. With F5 Diameter signaling solutions, you can maintain top performance and unprecedented scalability, roll out new revenue-generating services, and align network operations with business goals.

Optimize and Monetize the Network with BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:01:16 EST

To remain profitable, communications service providers (CSPs) must find new ways to support increased demands on their networks. Consumers are accustomed to anytime, anywhere access to resource-intensive content like streaming video and high-bandwidth apps-from their mobile devices. Consequently, data usage is growing at an unprecedented rate. F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM) helps you deliver high-quality customized services while optimizing your network by efficiently managing the explosion of data and traffic.

Speed and Secure Mobile Financial Services

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:47:00 EST

Use of mobile devices for financial services is exploding across the banking, trading, and insurance markets. Organizations must scale their IT infrastructures to match demand growth while ensuring reliable service, protecting personal and corporate information, and maintaining regulatory compliance. The F5 BIG-IP platform enables this growth with a single, highly scalable point of control that speeds performance, increases uptime, and delivers unified access control.

High-Performance Application Delivery Firewall

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:46:00 EST

F5 solutions sit at the strategic point of control within the network to deliver applications, which is also the most ideal place to perform security functions such as network firewalling, advanced authentication, web application firewalling, availability monitoring, SSL termination, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation. No other solution has the application fluency, intelligence and context, or scalability to deliver data and applications as safely.

Accelerate and Protect FIX Processing

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:15:00 EST

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) trading requires the use of high-performance networks that are also highly protected. Users expect services to be available 24/7, they expect high performance, and they expect their data to be safe from threats. Thus, business leaders also require as close to 100 percent uptime as possible for FIX trading, for applications to perform flawlessly, and for the system to be comprehensively secure-from encryption to access control. Add to that the complexity of switching based upon the contents of the incoming stream, demand from business owners for more visibility into systems and transactions, and increasingly stringent regulations-and, where FIX is concerned, IT departments have their hands full.