Application Briefs

F5 Networks' BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager (LTM) product combines the expertise of anti-virus systems for email attachments, generic FTP, Web files and other application level scanning devices, and acts on their behalf to automatically respond to, act upon and prevent changing application level security threats.

And with the FirePass SSL VPN, you can create custom policies based on the end points accessing your network, enforcing anti-virus software and update levels, ensuring that infected users do not gain access to the corporate network.

With powerful local and global traffic management network devices, F5 Networks offers valuable benefits for enterprise application infrastructure deployments with our industry-leading combination of intelligent application delivery networking, load balancing, and optimization features.

F5's TMOS architecture is designed to increase network efficiency and control while improving end-user performance with fast, secure application delivery. And the FirePass SSL VPN provides access to the internal application infrastructure as easily as from inside the corporate LAN.

F5 Networks intelligent application delivery networking and security solutions enable organizations to leverage collaborative tools for maximum benefit by increasing the availability, scalability, security and performance of the most popular messaging and collaboration products, including Microsoft Live Communications Server, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, and Oracle 10g Application Server Portal.

With powerful local and global application delivery networking products, F5 Networks offers valuable benefits for getting the most from any CRM deployment. The advanced features of F5 devices allow organizations to gracefully extend scalability of their applications and optimize network performance.

The BIG-IP system offers substantial improvement in efficiency with bandwidth reduction and TCP optimization, while enhancing the secure delivery of web applications. And with the FirePass SSL VPN, organizations can extend secure access to the enterprise's CRM applications for all remote and internal users.

F5 Networks BIG-IP Local and Global Traffic Management products enhance the performance, scalability, data distribution, and management of your database applications.

The BIG-IP LTM can perform advanced health checks that simulate database connections and transactions to report accurate database health. The GTM solution can link data centers globally and load balance global database traffic, helping enterprises scale globally.

F5 Networks offers valuable benefits for organizations deploying Enterprise Application Integration solutions for mission-critical services.

Through the use of its advanced feature set, the F5 products allows enterprises to enhance scalability and security for EAI solutions, as well as reduce management overhead and optimize network performance through intelligent Layer 7 traffic/application management.

F5 Networks local and global application delivery networking products allow organizations to get the most from any ERP deployment. F5 solutions allow organizations to gracefully extend scalability of their enterprise applications and optimize network performance through intelligent traffic management.

The BIG-IP system offers substantial improvement in efficiency with bandwidth reduction and TCP optimization, while enhancing the secure delivery of ERP applications. And with the FirePass SSL VPN, organizations can extend secure access to the enterprise's ERP applications for all remote and internal users.

F5 solutions have been deployed alongside industry leading financial applications, providing reliability, security, and scalability across any server that hosts a financial application.

F5 solutions are essential for business continuity, helping organizations maximize their investment in financial applications and the network, by affording them a much more proactive, hands-free administrative environment.

Implementing F5 solutions with firewall applications and appliances allow organizations to effectively scale and maximize their existing investments. When deployed together, this powerful solution increases network security and resource availability, and provides administrators a flexible traffic management tool.

In a firewall sandwich configuration, the BIG-IP intelligently load balances both inbound and outbound traffic between the firewalls - then tests the availability of the firewalls based on their ability to move traffic in the most efficient manner.

F5 Network's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager solution combines the expertise of IDS, intrusion protection systems, and other application level scanning devices, and acts on their behalf to automatically respond to, act upon and prevent against changing application level security threats.

By using the BIG-IP the SSL proxy, in combination with VLAN mirroring or cloned pools, you extend the scope of your IDS device. Without this feature, most IDS systems are not able to process encrypted data, greatly compromising their effectiveness.

F5 solutions provide specialized traffic/application management functions which dramatically improve the reliability and performance of media server deployments.

F5 also provides global traffic/application management capabilities to direct users to the appropriate streaming media server. The BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager product calculates the path quality from each user to each media server, providing the connection with the highest network integrity, and guaranteeing the best quality and speed for users.

F5 Networks solutions provide a robust platform to develop or deploy mobile connectivity options. F5 products include a number of features to allow organizations to get their mobile applications into the hands of employees or customers today, while helping prepare for future mobile growth.

For mobile users, the FirePass SSL VPN allows secure access from PDAs and cell phones to email and other applications. It dynamically formats email from POP/IMAP/SMTP email servers to fit the smaller screens of mobile phones and PDAs, and supports the sending of network files as email attachments and the viewing of text/Word documents.

F5's powerful local and global application delivery networking products offer valuable benefits for deploying SFA applications. F5 has established itself as a leader, able to enhance the scalability of enterprise Sales Force Automation solutions and optimize network performance.

As the global leader in SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for network devices, F5 Networks provides customers with solutions to ensure that their sensitive sales information is protected as it travels over the network, with 40-60% better performance than software-based security.

F5 Networks' solutions are designed to work seamlessly with System Management applications. The key to this integration is F5 Networks iControl architecture. iControl enables any 3rd party System Management tool (or application) to quickly communicate with the BIG-IP LTM or GTM products using a Web service (SOAP/XML).

The result is that nearly anything that can be done from an F5 Network device can now be accomplished programmatically through iControl, using the methods specified in the iControl SDK, greatly easing system management tasks.

F5 Networks' products include a number of recent features that solve the challenges of using Terminal Services within the enterprise. F5 provides users with full access to enterprise Terminal Services from any device, on any platform.

By leveraging the browser as a standard thin client, the F5 enables organizations to extend secure remote access easily and cost-effectively to anyone connected to the Internet, with no special software or configuration on the remote device.

F5's proven and widely deployed solutions allow organizations to increase the return on current investments and decrease the need for additional expenditure by providing flexible, intelligent distribution mechanisms to improve the performance, availability and security of web servers and web applications.

F5 products ensure that employees and trusted partners can securely access web servers on the corporate network from any device in any location. F5 also enhances protects web servers at the application layer from general and targeted attacks, while allowing only valid and authorized application transactions on the network.