Case Studies

With F5 products, the City of Diamond Bar has improved its security posture and built a stable and dynamic e-government presence while lowering its costs and enabling better service and support from its vendors. The city now uses FirePass to provide secure remote access to 45 major vendors and more than 50 city employees. For the past year, the city has been using F5 BIG-IP Link Controller to balance traffic to its website across two circuits—one from the local phone company and the other from a cable provider—simultaneously.

Confucius Institute online portal, was launched in March 2009. Just as the portal's contents and services are quickly expanding, so, too, is traffic to the website. This quick growth requires a scalable and secure portal infrastructure to best serve people worldwide. With a content delivery network built on F5 devices and solutions, Confucius Institute Online is prepared for the future, and it is ensuring scalability, flexibility, and security for its online venture.

RelayHealth provides a software as a service (SaaS) platform for the healthcare industry that connects patients, providers, pharmacies, payers, and financial institutions. RelayHealth simplified its application delivery infrastructure and improved the performance, reliability, and manageability of its applications by implementing F5 BIG-IP solutions.

The Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (Netherlands Internet Domain Registration Foundation, or SIDN) is responsible for issuing and registering all Dutch domain names. Using F5 BIG-IP LTM, SIDN reduced the complexity of its IT infrastructure, reduced the cost of system management, and sped up access to request and registration applications via its website.

The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) ranks among the top European research universities. Problems with the university’s IT infrastructure were causing downtime for users and inefficient utilization of server capacity. By implementing F5 BIG‑IP LTM in a centralized IT infrastructure, the university has been able to optimize utilization of physical and virtual servers, introduce a powerful new collaboration service, and ensure that users always have access to all of the university’s IT services.

AGL Resources relies on four different F5 products to support their growing infrastructure investments and to improve their ROI. All four, in varying degrees, help AGL Resources secure, optimize and deliver their applications reliably and cost-effectively to any user, anywhere in the world, using any device.

By implementing the BIG-IP LTM with the WebAccelerator module, AUTOonline delivered high performance and availability for its website and ensured the scalability of its systems as it continues to grow its business worldwide.

Recognizing the need to provide high performance and availability for critical business applications accessed by internal and external users, Administaff deploys F5's BIG-IP application delivery networking solution (both in the local and wide-area network), along with the BIG-IP Link Controller.

Aéroports de Paris chose the FirePass from F5 to meet its secure remote access needs. Additionally, in order to ensure the high level of availability and the scalability of the secure remote access through FirePass, ADP also opted for the BIG-IP solution.

By using F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Alibaba was able to consistently provide high-quality and secure services to its 24/7 worldwide customer base.

The benefits of TrueView and BIG-IP LTM extend well beyond the network-focused areas of the IT team. And the ability to monitor applications has brought about a fundamental change in the ways the infrastructure and applications teams work together.

Deploying F5 immediately improved active session stability and AIM's customers noticed faster response times within the web application right away.

By implementing F5 Message Security Module on the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager it uses to manage traffic, American Internet Services immediately dropped the amount of spam reaching its servers by 60 percent.

AutoScout24 decided to integrate a separate load-balancing level based on BIG-IP LTM. BIG-IP LTM incorporates a range of monitoring functions for servers, applications and network components and uses them to determine which server is in the best position to execute a user's request.

Averitt Express significantly improved the experience of its customers who rely on its self-service website to initiate and track freight shipments, with help from Application Delivery Networking products from F5.

BMW Group is currently migrating all of their applications to the BIG-IP system to keep them available 24/7, secure, and fast. In addition to high availability and performance, there are other significant benefits to using BIG-IP, including the SSL functionality and scalability.

F5 gives Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Law better control of corporate data and more efficient network performance at all levels, as well as allowing more flexible working patterns to be adopted more widely, allowing employees to become more mobile and more productive.

With limited IT expertise available in-house, Blink also required a remote access solution that could be installed in less than 30 minutes, was intuitively easy to use, and required very little day-to-day maintenance. Blink employs F5's FirePass 600 SSL VPN as an affordable and effective method for ensuring constant and secure access to their server and the critical information it contains.

By using F5 solutions, Blue Cross Blue Shield dramatically improved page load times, supercharged their application performance, improved their scalability to meet future growth challenges, and effectively locked down their data to meet the rigorous compliance goals mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

BlueFort Security is highly experienced in delivering customer solutions based on the BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system. After testing the beta version of BIG-IP version 10 (v10), the company was so convinced of the value of the upcoming release that it deployed the beta to its production web servers. With BIG-IP v10, BlueFort Security has experienced a 60 percent reduction in server load, and believes that the new version will result in performance improvements as well as significant data center cost savings for its customers.

BlueLock's virtualized environment enables the company to provide cost-effective IT infrastructure services while ensuring that clients' infrastructures always meet their business needs. BIG-IP LTM helps BlueLock take full advantage of the efficiencies and opportunities its virtualized environment offers.

BorderWare and F5 Networks developed a joint solution for enterprise email management. By combining the patented stateful failover of BorderWare's MXtreme Mail Firewall with F5's BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system, enterprises can achieve unprecedented levels of email availability, reliability, scalability, and security.

To deal with the peaks in traffic, Boscov's IT group implemented F5's WebAccelerator to optimize its web application performance. While page views have doubled, CPU usage has dropped by half, allowing Boscov's IT group to focus on driving sales rather than building infrastructure.

F5's solutions perform very strongly for British American Tobacco, enabling them to guarantee high availability for their new global portal and SAP HR applications.

British Land is the largest real estate company in the UK with a portfolio of 12.5 billion British pounds. To promote collaborative working and knowledge sharing, British Land implemented a web-based portal using software from Plumtree. The portal proved extremely beneficial, but was subject to frustrating performance concerns. To enhance the usability of the portal, British Land deployed F5 WebAccelerator™. The solution resulted in a 700% improvement in performance and reduced bandwidth utilization by 5X.

Together, Bytemobile and F5 have teamed to address the needs of one of Bytemobile's largest tier-one customers in Europe, using the F5 VIPRION system.

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Caixa Galicia, one of the most prominent financial institutions in Spain, uses F5 to provide high service availability, reduce bandwidth, and increase application security levels.

By using F5 BIG-IP LTM with iRules, Casero was able to respond to its telecom client's request for a high-performance, custom product very quickly and cost-effectively and ensure a lower total cost of operation (TCO) on a long-term basis.

The relationships between partnering companies, like F5 and Oracle, often result in a competitive advantage over organizations trying to succeed alone. These technology partnerships are further enhanced by companies like CINTRA, system architects who implement these integrated solutions, offering intelligent configurations for complex environments.

F5's BIG-IP system not only allowed Classified Ventures to obtain a marked gain in application performance and improve the end user experience, but it worked to absorb increases in bandwidth costs.

When CombineNet was searching for a comprehensive solution that could provide application security, enhance scalability, and directly integrate applications via open standards, they looked to the flexibility and power of F5 Networks BIG-IP® application traffic management product and the iControl® SDK/API, to increase network performance and substantially reduce costs.

Confucius Institute online portal, was launched in March 2009. Just as the portal's contents and services are quickly expanding, so, too, is traffic to the website. This quick growth requires a scalable and secure portal infrastructure to best serve people worldwide. With a content delivery network built on F5 devices and solutions, Confucius Institute Online is prepared for the future, and it is ensuring scalability, flexibility, and security for its online venture.

Since deploying BIG-IP WebAccelerator, Crystal Cruises has seen onboard Internet performance triple and Internet usage double. The company has realized a one-month return on its BIG-IP WebAccelerator investment in bandwidth savings alone.

By integrating the security, optimization, and load-balancing functions on one platform, Crédit Coopératif benefits from standardizing the security and maintenance of the applications. This one-stop solution for rolling out applications to users reduces the total cost of ownership by using the resources needed to manage these functions more efficiently.

After a thorough evaluation of more than 12 other products, Cvent chose the F5 BIG-IP devices. It was "a generation or more ahead of other vendors," says Dwayne Sye, VP of Technology. Cvent focused its evaluation on ive primary factors - functionality, performance, reliability, ease-of-management, and total cost of ownership.

Using F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, DNSstuff.com reduced its downtime whenever a server fails from minutes or hours to mere milliseconds.

Datacenter Stockholm helps more than 100 companies in 30 countries achieve more secure and efficient managed IT environments on a 24x7 basis. The company’s roots lie in the media vertical but it has expanded over the years to serve other customer types, including online retailers. They selected F5 FirePass SSL VPN for its ability to secure authentication of remote access users. In addition to enhancing secure remote access, Datacenter Stockholm also needed to refresh its traffic management technology. The company replaced its two existing BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 1000 platforms with F5’s new BIG-IP LTM 3600 series.

F5's BIG-IP local traffic manager provides IT service provider T-Systems with the tools that allow customers to enjoy secure and reliable access to Deutsche Post's STAMPIT PC postage system.

F5 Networks BIG-IP device helps Discovery Networks Europe provide scalability during peak viewing periods, allow application servers to be taken offline without loss of service, simplify operations by integrating load balancing with SSL, improve performance, and more.

With F5, DoubleClick experiences premium ad performance and increased server capacity to meet the growing need for their mission-critical ad services. F5 also delivers a streamlined management approach to handle DoubleClick's expected growth in an operationally efficient manner.

A key challenge Droga Raia's IT team faced was to reduce communications costs without affecting business continuity. This cost saving was crucial because expenses with connection services were significant and increasing. By implementing F5^® BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager^™ (LTM) Application Delivery Controller with the BIG-IP WebAccelerator^™ product module, Droga Raia has experienced dramatic savings in bandwidth costs and improved the performance of business applications running in a distributed environment.

EZTec used F5's Application Ready Deployment Guides for Oracle 10g Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite to successfully implement Oracle solutions with the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

With the installation of WebAccelerator, Epson now supports over 1 million page views per day. Epson.com has realized a dramatic and consistent increase in response time, from an average of 75 seconds to less than one second, regardless of traffic.

By implementing F5 BIG-IP Message Security Module (MSM), F5's IT department has been able to drop 60 percent of unwanted inbound email before it reaches the IT infrastructure. This has resulted in a significant cost savings, a more efficient use of resources, and faster delivery for priority email.

The BIG-IP LTM enabled FMR to undertake a huge, strategic IT infrastructure change. With the implementation of BIG-IP LTM, FMR was able to create a single system for all its clients' services, while using BIG-IP LTM to separate communications relating to different clients. This new network infrastructure paved the way for service improvements. They also deployed BIG-IP Application Security Manager and the FirePass controller SSL VPN.

Today some 110,000 investors in the United Kingdom and New Zealand count on FNZ-powered web sites for help in planning their financial future. Serving so many people might have been impossible had FNZ not done some advance planning of its own. Thanks in part to F5's BIG-IP products and other F5 solutions, the company equipped itself from the outset to supply an expanding customer base with fast, reliable, and secure access to financial data.

First American created a cohesive IT operation capable of providing a standard services catalog, service level agreements (SLAs), and disaster recovery guarantees for all business units. Now centralized using F5 Application Delivery Networking solutions and a highly virtualized server infrastructure with VMware, IT is far more nimble, efficient, and cost-effective in meeting business needs than it was previously.

By developing an iRule, the telecommunications company saved $1 million and solved a phone software problem in a weekend instead of the nine months quoted by the phone's manufacturer. Through the use of iRules along with F5's BIG-IP LTM and GTM, the company improved efficiencies for delivering voice, video, data and wireless services seamlessly and transparently to customers over a common network.

Implementing BIG-IP LTM solved the university's application delivery challenges and opened up new opportunities to address its future strategy.

This white paper details the technical architecture and configurations implemented for the public website supporting the 2007 Boston Marathon race. It provides background information on the 2006 website’s architecture and highlights changes made to the 2007 website. The paper also provides detailed configuration diagrams as well as a sampling of race day performance data.

F5's Application Security Manager is critical to InCharge's risk management model. The Application Security Manager gives InCharge insight and knowledge of their DMZ, and enhances their ability to manage risk.

Deploying F5 solutions enabled ICBC to simplify its IT system and network while improving the user experience for its online banking customers.

Using F5 Networks 3-DNS® Controller (BIG-IP GTM) to automatically steer corporate users to backup systems, this organization was able cut their fail-over time, while removing the need to coordinate far reaching changes throughout their enterprise.

An Internet Technology firm relies on a web application that consists of a large variety of internally developed ASP pages running on IIS web servers. The ASP pages themselves interact with a SQL server database back-end, and are used to quickly track and view customer and employee data and ultimately provide better customer support.

As an open cloud computing vendor, Joyent, Inc. has more than 25,000+ customers ranging in size from small developers to Fortune 500 companies. To provide flexible, highly scalable open cloud computing that is application-aware, Joyent chose F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) as part of its core architecture at its cloud's edge.

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 6400, Komplett improved the speed and stability of its websites, boosted the efficiency of its email communications, put its online payment procedures in line with international security standards, and greatly simplified the management of its security certificates.

Taking advantage of a versatile product suite, Lake Forest Hospital chose F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN to keep their network applications safe, reliable, and fast.

By implementing F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Leibniz Computing Center improved application performance on its expansive network, reduced operating costs, and prepared its infrastructure to meet emerging standards (IPv6).

The power of the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager has made it a central control point for the entire Lloyds Pharmacy network. A real workhorse, it handles address distribution and crypto-offload along with standard data management, in a highly secure environment.

During the 2002 Winter Olympics, traffic to the MSNBC.com site cumulated with over 9 million daily visitors and over 74 million page views -- yet the site maintained 99.98% availability at the core, thanks in part to a strong infrastructure, smart planning, and traffic management products from F5 Networks.

On an average day, approximately 800 megabytes to 1.2 gigabits of traffic per second travels through the BIG-IP devices to both msnbc.com data centers. On November 4, 2008, msnbc.com experienced 2g of traffic per second to both data centers. To support this increase, the company relied on devices from F5 Networks to manage site traffic and ensure high availability despite unprecedented traffic volumes.

Marine Resources Group companies operate around the globe, providing a wide range of marine transportation services to customers in a variety of industries. With 1,600+ employees working around the clock, around the globe, and on land and sea, email is the vital communication link that keeps the organization connected. To maintain this line of communication MRG uses Microsoft Exchange Server and F5 BIG-IP LTM.

For the core of their critical online services, Matsui selected F5 Networks' BIG-IP v9 Local Traffic Manager for load distribution and SSL processing.

The BIG-IP system is an integral part of MercadoLibre's goals of providing a fast, reliable, and secure site for millions of online buyers and sellers in Latin America - today and well into the future.

Utilizing an XML interface, Microsoft was able to integrate F5's BIG-IP traffic manager with Application Center 2000 clusters. The BIG-IP device is a high availability traffic manager that utilizes Microsoft application-specific information to influence local traffic control.

The BIG-IP has enabled MSN Games to "vastly improve" their ability to do server maintenance by pushing traffic to other servers without dropping connections. Overall system availability has gone from 80 percent to 99.5 percent without random errors, slow web page responses, or the "500" errors that indicate servers are too busy.

Mustang Engineering successfully deployed and maintains a highly responsive SharePoint Server 2007 environment with help from F5 Application Delivery Networking products.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with Application Security Manager was implemented by the National Insurance Institute of Israel to combine intelligent load balancing, performance improvement, and security modules on a single platform.

The BIG-IP Link Controller not only ensured that customers were connected, but it allowed NWMLS to increase user performance and ensure that their corporate bandwidth investments were maximized to their fullest extent.

F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass Controller, enabled Organon Pharmaceuticals to dramatically reduce access, administrative, and support costs compared to previous solutions.

PDXLAN employs F5's BIG-IP Link Controller to manage both incoming and outgoing traffic, to direct users over the best link, and to ensure that gamers at PDXLAN events have the best experience possible.

In support of its mission as a world-class research university, POSTECH is constantly seeking to innovate and improve its use of technology. Using F5 solutions, the university upgraded its IT infrastructure to improve the performance of its SAP applications, reduce operations costs, and ensure application security.

Recognizing the need for a robust application delivery networking product that would give their clients highly available and secure access to their documents and to their site, PaperHost chose F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for unprecedented availability, reliability, scalability, and security.

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Rapattoni replaced their previous traffic management device (NetScaler) with F5's BIG-IP Application Traffic Management solution, citing better end-user performance, increased scalability, lower TCO, granular control over traffic Compression, and a mature and intuitive user interface.

RelayHealth provides a software as a service (SaaS) platform for the healthcare industry that connects patients, providers, pharmacies, payers, and financial institutions. RelayHealth simplified its application delivery infrastructure and improved the performance, reliability, and manageability of its applications by implementing F5 BIG-IP solutions.

For Ritz Interactive, the BIG-IP WebAccelerator decreases server use by 50 percent, decreases download times by 20 percent, and decreases bandwidth usage anywhere from 20 to 50 percent

Rotary International deployed a new public-facing website using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. To encourage viewership and achieve optimal return on its SharePoint investment, Rotary uses the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 3400 device to manage site traffic. With F5 devices, Rotary maintains high website availability, has simplified administration, and has freed-up server processor usage as much as 20 percent, resulting in significant infrastructure cost savings.

The Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (Netherlands Internet Domain Registration Foundation, or SIDN) is responsible for issuing and registering all Dutch domain names. Using F5 BIG-IP LTM, SIDN reduced the complexity of its IT infrastructure, reduced the cost of system management, and sped up access to request and registration applications via its website.

When you are responsible for hosting some of the biggest e-commerce and content sites in the country, you can’t afford to take chances. Smile Media wanted to reduce the risk of downtime and improve application performance, and at the same time scale up its IT infrastructure to meet the needs of growing numbers of Internet users. It selected F5's BIG- IP® Local Traffic Manager™, and has benefited from reduced costs, time efficiencies, high availability and faster page loads.

F5's BIG-IP Link Controller, an integrated load balancing product, proved to be the ideal solution for the District, successfully managing both incoming and outgoing site traffic, directing users over the best link, and completely eliminating previous complaints about site accessibility and speed.

In a fully redundant TrafficShield configuration, alongside its BIG-IP 3400's, F5 gives the Sporting Index an effective solution to website security, SSL encryption and load balancing without compromising performance.

Using BIG-IP LTM with the ANGEL Learning Management System, Stark State College has improved the performance of its online learning and administrative applications, dramatically reduced downtime, and attracted higher enrollment in its e-learning program.

Through the use of VMware virtualization software to help manage the application servers, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to manage the large databases, an F5® Networks BIG-IP® load balancer to send the requests to the application servers, and Spotlight from Quest Software to help manage the Oracle RAC databases, the Dell-SUNY POC architecture successfully For institutions of higher education, a scalable IT infrastructure can be critical. To demonstrate the scalability and performance of SunGard Higher Education’s Banner® software on Dell™ hardware, Dell collaborated with the State University of New York to build and test a proof-ofconcept architecture designed to handle up to 175,000 students with sub-second response times. By Dave Jaffe, Ph.D. Kai Yu Dan Brint Scaling SunGard Higher Education Banner Software on Dell Hardware Related Categories: Dell PowerEdge servers Dell/EMC storage F5 Networks Higher education Oracle Quest Software SunGard VMware Visit DELL.COM/PowerSolutions for the complete category index. 1 For more information, see “Unity and Freedom in One Seamless Solution,” by Dell Inc., January 2007, DELL.COM/Content/Topics/Global.aspx/CaseStudies/fy2008_q3_id706?c=us&cs= RC956904&l=en&s=hied. CASE STUDY: EDUCATION Solutions CASE STUDY: EDUCATION Solutions 56 DELL POWER SOLUTIONS | August 2008 Reprinted from Dell Power Solutions, August 2008. Copyright © 2008 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. handled a workload representing 175,000 students while providing sub-second response times.

StepStone selected the F5 BIG-IP LTM system to perform load balancing, SSL encryption and caching; replacing their previous six device solution with one device.

StubHub, an online ticket marketplace, enables fans to buy and sell tickets for live entertainment events. When the company was purchased by eBay, it redesigned its network infrastructure and included the VIPRION Application Delivery Controller from F5. With higher site traffic capacity and availability, StubHub can continue to enhance the customer experience and increase market share and revenue while minimizing IT costs.

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, TALX has reduced download times for large graphic files as much as two-thirds and is delivering fast and unbroken application performance to its users.

PharmaML is a new protocol aimed at standardizing stock management processes in France's pharmaceutical industry. TEVA Santé, one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world, recognized that the new standard presented data security issues. The company began a major IT project focused on addressing these issues while still ensuring reliability and service levels for the various sales channels. By implementing F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager, TEVA Santé has been able to secure its online ordering system, maintain high availability, and achieve regulatory compliance in the face of changing competitive needs and industry standards.

With F5 products, the City of Diamond Bar has improved its security posture and built a stable and dynamic e-government presence while lowering its costs and enabling better service and support from its vendors. The city now uses FirePass to provide secure remote access to 45 major vendors and more than 50 city employees. For the past year, the city has been using F5 BIG-IP Link Controller to balance traffic to its website across two circuits—one from the local phone company and the other from a cable provider—simultaneously.

Recognizing the need for products that ensure high availability and reliable delivery of their data to a far-reaching global community, Thomson Scientific and Healthcare relies on F5's BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (formerly 3-DNS) and F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

Transplace redesigned its IT infrastructure for higher efficiency and to provide a better customer experience. The redesign included virtualization technology from VMware. To realize the full benefits of its virtualized environment, the company used BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking devices from F5.

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One year after implementing the BIG-IP product, Tucows is providing faster connection speeds and 99.999 percent system availability to its service provider customers. The company is also benefitting from simplified IT maintenance and administration.

The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) ranks among the top European research universities. Problems with the university’s IT infrastructure were causing downtime for users and inefficient utilization of server capacity. By implementing F5 BIG‑IP LTM in a centralized IT infrastructure, the university has been able to optimize utilization of physical and virtual servers, introduce a powerful new collaboration service, and ensure that users always have access to all of the university’s IT services.

Vega chose the F5 product because it could be easily incorporated into their system without affecting th existing infrastructure. More importantly, F5 helped them solve persistent problems, including bandwidth and application delivery challenges.

The F5 solution has greatly improved the resilience of the Virgin Radio website while providing an invaluable monitoring service that also serves to efficiently load balance the new podcast download facility.

With more than 2.5 million users accessing Vurv's web-based applications worldwide, traffic management and security are top concerns. That's why Vurv uses the BIG-IP LTM with ASM to ensure high performance and defend against intrusion.

With F5's solutions, XCalibre's entire "virtualisation" infrastructure is much easier to maintain. IT personnel can make hardware swaps, memory upgrades and configuration changes without having to disrupt customer services.

With the need to maintain high security and adhere to the implementation schedule, a simple iRule was created and implemented within the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager which restructured IP packets to circumvent an application bug and allow the project to complete on time with no compromise to performance, security or design.

As a long-standing F5 customer, easyJet upgraded their F5 products to support the 32 web servers across both facilities. In addition, easyJet deployed two FirePass SSL VPN 4100s to provide support staff with secure remote access to its infrastructure for performing routine maintenance and fault resolution.

F5 ARX products have reduced Archive Systems' backup windows from days to hours, enabling the firm to meet compliance audits and rigorous service level agreements. The ARX devices have also facilitated a disaster recovery solution that allows Archive Systems to offer a premium service to customers. Finally, the virtualized file environment has dramatically simplified the day-to-day storage management operations and will allow Archive Systems to scale its business more efficiently.

Dynamic load balancing with F5 has allowed the cable giant to achieve its objective of creating an efficient video asset storage and distribution system that keeps files accessible while maximizing utilization of existing resources.

Implementing automated storage tiering with F5 ARX as part of its broader virtualization strategy has enabled Clackamas County to reduce storage costs, lighten the management burden on the IT team, and maximize the value of its existing iSCSI investment.

By implementing the F5 solution, the foundation was able to accomplish its goals of freeing up a significant amount of capacity on its tier 1 NetApp filers, and implement automated ILM policies to ensure capacity always remains at an acceptable level.

Confucius Institute online portal, was launched in March 2009. Just as the portal's contents and services are quickly expanding, so, too, is traffic to the website. This quick growth requires a scalable and secure portal infrastructure to best serve people worldwide. With a content delivery network built on F5 devices and solutions, Confucius Institute Online is prepared for the future, and it is ensuring scalability, flexibility, and security for its online venture.

As a vendor of intelligent file virtualization solutions, F5 Networks is constantly working to help businesses understand how this approach to file storage management can deliver dramatic economic and management improvements. By deploying its own line of ARX products, F5 is now experiencing those benefits firsthand. F5 was able to solve its capacity problems and optimize its backup processes while reducing its overall storage expenditures.

File virtualization offered this major financial services company the flexibility it required. By deploying F5 ARX devices, the company was able to eliminate the static mapping from client to storage resources, giving IT the ability to easily move data in response to changes in the infrastructure.

Policy-based data management using F5 has enabled this financial services company to resolve one of the most challenging issues for businesses today: managing backups in the face of rapid storage growth. Backup and restore windows have been decreased, and storage growth has actually become manageable.

By using automated storage tiering to keep only the most current projects on its fiber channel (Tier 1) storage, Foster and Partners has been able to reduce the size of backups which has, in turn, significantly reduced spending on disk and tape and increased the performance of its Tier 1 storage. In addition, Foster and Partners has used ARX devices to implement a cost-effective, and efficient, disaster recovery solution.

The company has effectively deployed the F5 file virtualization solution to automate storage management tasks and eliminated the downtime usually associated with these tasks. These efficiencies have allowed the IT staff to keep pace with rapid storage growth, boost the company's disaster recovery strategy and realize significant cost savings in the process.

By using the F5 intelligent file virtualization solution, Ibis has been able to dramatically increase the throughput, utilization and scale of its electronic discovery operations. The impact on the company's bottom line is significant.

Automated storage tiering with F5 has enabled Wiley to efficiently manage its constantly expanding volumes of unstructured data without incurring major infrastructure changes. At the same time, the company has been able to significantly reduce the cost of storage and is using the ARX device to improve operations in other areas as well, including disaster recovery.

Lulu used ARX to virtualize its file storage and create a global namespace, which is essentially a logical representation of the file systems being virtualized. This dramatically reduces the number of mount points the IT staff needs to manage, streamlines data movement, and enables simple, logical access to physical file systems. Equally important, the global namespace hides storage changes from Lulu's customers.

Messe Dusseldorf leveraged the file virtualization devices to accomplish its goal of lowering storage costs through an automated, and non-disruptive, tiered storage solution. As a consequence of deploying the F5 solution Messe Dusseldorf has also realized significant reductions in backup windows and backup infrastructure costs, as well as improvements in operational efficiency.

The F5 ARX file storage virtualization solution allowed PacificSource to perform all data migration tasks without any downtime and without requiring that they manually reconfigure client systems and applications.

RHWL is a multi-skilled architectural practice, renowned for designing a broad range of buildings from sports stadiums and theatres to residential developments and commercial premises. The company found itself struggling to meet the need for additional capacity while attempting to manage its storage budget. By implementing F5 ARX to manage its file storage more effectively, RHWL achieved time, productivity, and cost savings, with an expected time to ROI of less than one year.

The SIGNAL IDUNA Group (www.signal-iduna.de)is one of Germany's ten largest insurance companies. Given exponentially growing volumes of data, SIGNAL IDUNA had serious concerns about the extremely slow access and data backup speeds of an online storage system based on a four-node, Microsoft Windows 2003 cluster. A detailed investigation revealed that, in addition to the business-critical files frequently accessed, there was also a considerable volume of seldom-used files that took up a disproportionately large amount of online storage space. ARX enabled SIGNAL IDUNA to free up a massive amount of online storage space, greatly improving performance.

The policy-driven data management provided by F5 has enabled Shopzilla to automate many tasks that had previously been performed manually. As a result, the company has experienced both direct savings, by eliminating the need for high-cost support on older equipment, and indirect savings, by freeing critical IT resources to focus on other business-critical initiatives.

Relying on the powerful data management capabilities of F5 ARX file virtualization solutions, American Suzuki Motor Company seamlessly transitioned to a higher-performance network-attached storage (NAS) environment and implemented an automated Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy that slashed backup times and storage costs.

Toshiba was able to perform a large-scale data migration and transition to a new NetApp platform in a fraction of the time it would have taken with other solutions. More importantly, the entire process was accomplished without impacting Toshiba’s critical design, test and verification processes, enabling the IT organization to avoid service outages and to continue to meet the demands of its global organization.

F5 helped Warner Music Group scale its file storage environment and decrease the operational overhead for storage management. F5 intelligent file virtualization solution has eliminated the disruption previously associated with storage management tasks, allowing data migration and storage provisioning to occur without impacting users.

This firm is now reaping the benefits of its automated storage tiering strategy and plans to continue refining its data movement policies for even greater rewards. One thing the company does not plan to do, however, is purchase more tier 1 capacity, something the IT organization believes it would have been forced to do if F5 had not been implemented.

AGL Resources relies on four different F5 products to support their growing infrastructure investments and to improve their ROI. All four, in varying degrees, help AGL Resources secure, optimize and deliver their applications reliably and cost-effectively to any user, anywhere in the world, using any device.

Aéroports de Paris chose the FirePass from F5 to meet its secure remote access needs. Additionally, in order to ensure the high level of availability and the scalability of the secure remote access through FirePass, ADP also opted for the BIG-IP solution.

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By implementing F5 FirePass SSL VPN, B-Source delivered extremely secure, remote access to a wide range of applications while providing its clients with an excellent user experience. Centralized management has helped B-Source reduce management-related costs.

F5 gives Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Law better control of corporate data and more efficient network performance at all levels, as well as allowing more flexible working patterns to be adopted more widely, allowing employees to become more mobile and more productive.

With limited IT expertise available in-house, Blink also required a remote access solution that could be installed in less than 30 minutes, was intuitively easy to use, and required very little day-to-day maintenance. Blink employs F5's FirePass 600 SSL VPN as an affordable and effective method for ensuring constant and secure access to their server and the critical information it contains.

The benefits for the IT department include a rapid setup time for new users which requires just a few minutes and can be performed remotely. Also, the lack of a software client on the user device allows remote access using more types of hardware such as Macintosh, Linux and PDA's - which was previously a complex procedure.

F5's FirePass gave CVM's remote users secure and reliable access to any authorized application from any Web-enabled device, from any location, without requiring special software or configuration on the remote device, and with no modifications to the back-end resources being accessed.

To keep associates productive no matter where they are and to keep unwanted intruders out of its network, Coast Capital Savings deployed F5's FirePass Controller as a mainstay of its perimeter security and to replace a complex, hard-to-manage IPSec VPN scheme.

Datacenter Stockholm helps more than 100 companies in 30 countries achieve more secure and efficient managed IT environments on a 24x7 basis. The company’s roots lie in the media vertical but it has expanded over the years to serve other customer types, including online retailers. They selected F5 FirePass SSL VPN for its ability to secure authentication of remote access users. In addition to enhancing secure remote access, Datacenter Stockholm also needed to refresh its traffic management technology. The company replaced its two existing BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 1000 platforms with F5’s new BIG-IP LTM 3600 series.

F5's FirePass SSL VPN appliance provides secure access to corporate applications and data for Eagle Global Logistics using a standard web browser. Delivering outstanding performance, scalability, ease-of-use, and end-point security, FirePass helps increase the productivity remote users, while keeping corporate data secure.

The BIG-IP LTM enabled FMR to undertake a huge, strategic IT infrastructure change. With the implementation of BIG-IP LTM, FMR was able to create a single system for all its clients' services, while using BIG-IP LTM to separate communications relating to different clients. This new network infrastructure paved the way for service improvements. They also deployed BIG-IP Application Security Manager and the FirePass controller SSL VPN.

Today some 110,000 investors in the United Kingdom and New Zealand count on FNZ-powered web sites for help in planning their financial future. Serving so many people might have been impossible had FNZ not done some advance planning of its own. Thanks in part to F5's BIG-IP products and other F5 solutions, the company equipped itself from the outset to supply an expanding customer base with fast, reliable, and secure access to financial data.

First American created a cohesive IT operation capable of providing a standard services catalog, service level agreements (SLAs), and disaster recovery guarantees for all business units. Now centralized using F5 Application Delivery Networking solutions and a highly virtualized server infrastructure with VMware, IT is far more nimble, efficient, and cost-effective in meeting business needs than it was previously.

FirePass helps GTA increase the productivity of those working from home or on the road while keeping data secure. In addition, GTA is also using F5's BIG-IP LTM to efficiently manage application traffic, and F5's WANJet products to accelerate applications including file transfer, e-mail, and client-server applications on the wide area network.

This white paper details the technical architecture and configurations implemented for the public website supporting the 2007 Boston Marathon race. It provides background information on the 2006 website’s architecture and highlights changes made to the 2007 website. The paper also provides detailed configuration diagrams as well as a sampling of race day performance data.

HK life tested three vendors for SSL VPN and selected F5 for its outstanding performance. The F5 FirePass offered a complete IPSec remote access replacement for improved workforce productivity. It also provided dynamic policy-based access for greater security and network control.

To help their physicians stay connected with critical applications and information from any location, and to keep that information secure, IPC uses F5's FirePass SSL VPN solution.

Within the first three minutes of evaluating F5's FirePass SSL VPN, the Kent School District was completely blown away by its ease of use. Within five minutes they were sold. Within weeks of implementing FirePass, calls to the District support center dropped by 90%.

Taking advantage of a versatile product suite, Lake Forest Hospital chose F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN to keep their network applications safe, reliable, and fast.

After an extensive evaluation of Web-based remote access products, MGHS chose F5's FirePass® controller. The FirePass gave remote users secure and reliable access to authorized applications from any Web-enabled device, from any location.

Using FirePass, NTT Data Sanyo System Corporation was able to achieve an SSL VPN service with high functionality and security which meets the demanding service requirements of the enterprise. The highly reliable FirePass SSL VPN provided secure, trouble-free service with a low operational burden.

F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass Controller, enabled Organon Pharmaceuticals to dramatically reduce access, administrative, and support costs compared to previous solutions.

Perry Manufacturing uses the FirePass system to provide convenient, worldwide access to their proprietary AS/400 applications. Additionally, Perry's business travelers now use FirePass to access their company email from any location, using only a Web browser.

The F5 FirePass solution provides the Port of Algeciras with secure access to applications, such as Oracle Financials, and other corporate data. This helps boost productivity for people who are travelling or working from home.

Rogers Corporation has clients all over the world and their sales engineers and managers often travel globally to sell their products. F5 Networks' FirePass provides secure remote access to company information and applications, no matter where they are.

When SAP was looking for a solution to replace their previous VPN technology, they chose the FirePass® device from F5. The FirePass device allowed SAP to overcome the limitations and complexity of their previous solution, and provide nearly 7,000 SAP employees secure remote access every day, from any location, using any type of device.

Santa Barbara Charter employs F5's FirePass SSL VPN solution as an affordable and effective method for ensuring constant and secure access to their network and the critical information it contains.

Santa Barbara Charter employs F5's FirePass SSL VPN solution as an affordable and effective method for ensuring constant and secure access to their network and the critical information it contains.

Not only does the F5 FirePass controller make it easier for the Siemens Energy and Automation IT department to support users anywhere, but FirePass also enables users to securely access the network regardless of the computer they are using.

SIH chose the FirePass controller from F5 because it had the lowest TCO comparative to other offerings, the most flexible and scalable licensing model based on maximum allowed concurrent user volume, and superior F5 Networks sales and technical support.

F5's FirePass gave Sports Authority's remote users, employees, and vendors secure and reliable access to any authorized application from any Web-enabled device, from any location, without requiring special software or configuration on the remote device, and with no modifications to the back-end resources being accessed.

With F5 products, the City of Diamond Bar has improved its security posture and built a stable and dynamic e-government presence while lowering its costs and enabling better service and support from its vendors. The city now uses FirePass to provide secure remote access to 45 major vendors and more than 50 city employees. For the past year, the city has been using F5 BIG-IP Link Controller to balance traffic to its website across two circuits—one from the local phone company and the other from a cable provider—simultaneously.

The goal for this non-profit organisation that provides affordable and sheltered housing was to provide a better service while reducing ongoing operational costs. A three-year project has seen the trust implement a number of technologies including Thin Clients and high capacity data links between remote sites. At the heart of this system is F5's FirePass® 1000 SSL VPN system, an affordable and effective method for ensuring constant and secure access to mission critical applications from a diverse range of remote devices.

This contractor is leveraging F5's FirePass SSL VPN as a key component to providing government workers with secure, remote access to the financial system. Not only has this saved U.S. taxpayers money by providing a low-cost solution to a potentially high-cost infrastructure, it has mitigated the need for employees to travel among Ministry locations.

After an extensive evaluation of the leading SSL VPN solutions, UNICEF-USA selected F5's FirePass® device as its remote access solution. The FirePass system gave UNICEF-USA's very remote users secure, easy, Web-based access to the corporate network, while reducing the workload of the IT department.

The West Chester Area School District is one of the largest districts in Pennsylvania. The district found the costs of upgrading its Citrix-based virtual private network (VPN) prohibitive. Instead, the school district implemented FirePass SSL VPN from F5 at less than half of what the Citrix upgrade would have cost, and with greatly expanded capabilities.

As a long-standing F5 customer, easyJet upgraded their F5 products to support the 32 web servers across both facilities. In addition, easyJet deployed two FirePass SSL VPN 4100s to provide support staff with secure remote access to its infrastructure for performing routine maintenance and fault resolution.

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With WANJet increasing the bandwidth capacity by 1000%, Brownshoe was able to use a 7 Mbps link instead of upgrading to 90 Mbps, achieving a hard dollar ROI in less than three months.

F5 WANJet is deployed in CitiStreet's data centers and provides application acceleration and WAN optimization to maximize throughput over the WAN. With the WANJet, CitiStreet realized all private information transferred securely at 6X the response time and with a 20X throughput improvement.

Today some 110,000 investors in the United Kingdom and New Zealand count on FNZ-powered web sites for help in planning their financial future. Serving so many people might have been impossible had FNZ not done some advance planning of its own. Thanks in part to F5's BIG-IP products and other F5 solutions, the company equipped itself from the outset to supply an expanding customer base with fast, reliable, and secure access to financial data.

The deployment of the F5 WANJet dramatically lowered bandwidth requirements, freeing 70 percent of the bandwidth for more data throughput. Now, application response time is almost real-time, and the company saw a hard dollar ROI within six months.

Fulfillment Plus installed F5 WANJet®, which increased application response times by over 400% and increased capacity by over 800%. With F5, FFP was able to save valuable dollars, avoid a costly network upgrade and also dramatically boost employee productivity.

After installation of the WANJet appliance, the effect was clear to everyone involved at Gaitame.com. Data throughput has improved by up to 20-times. As a result, files in the database that previously took up to 15 minutes to send can now be sent in seconds.

Since adding the initial three F5 WANJet appliances to its network, GASAI has watched its WAN bandwidth jump a whopping 230 percent. With employees able to effectively collaborate on engineering drawings over the WAN, GASAI has been able to reduce travel costs significantly and save between $3,000 and $5,000 each month in employee time.

The WANJet installation was simple. Each appliance took an F5 engineer just 15 minutes to configure. This, along with the significantly eased procurement process the EMC Select status enabled, resulted in a fast deployment and a very rapid performance improvement.

By using F5 solutions, Blue Cross Blue Shield dramatically improved page load times, supercharged their application performance, improved their scalability to meet future growth challenges, and effectively locked down their data to meet the rigorous compliance goals mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

BlueFort Security is highly experienced in delivering customer solutions based on the BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system. After testing the beta version of BIG-IP version 10 (v10), the company was so convinced of the value of the upcoming release that it deployed the beta to its production web servers. With BIG-IP v10, BlueFort Security has experienced a 60 percent reduction in server load, and believes that the new version will result in performance improvements as well as significant data center cost savings for its customers.

Caixa Galicia, one of the most prominent financial institutions in Spain, uses F5 to provide high service availability, reduce bandwidth, and increase application security levels.

By integrating the security, optimization, and load-balancing functions on one platform, Crédit Coopératif benefits from standardizing the security and maintenance of the applications. This one-stop solution for rolling out applications to users reduces the total cost of ownership by using the resources needed to manage these functions more efficiently.

The BIG-IP LTM enabled FMR to undertake a huge, strategic IT infrastructure change. With the implementation of BIG-IP LTM, FMR was able to create a single system for all its clients' services, while using BIG-IP LTM to separate communications relating to different clients. This new network infrastructure paved the way for service improvements. They also deployed BIG-IP Application Security Manager and the FirePass controller SSL VPN.

Today some 110,000 investors in the United Kingdom and New Zealand count on FNZ-powered web sites for help in planning their financial future. Serving so many people might have been impossible had FNZ not done some advance planning of its own. Thanks in part to F5's BIG-IP products and other F5 solutions, the company equipped itself from the outset to supply an expanding customer base with fast, reliable, and secure access to financial data.

F5's Application Security Manager is critical to InCharge's risk management model. The Application Security Manager gives InCharge insight and knowledge of their DMZ, and enhances their ability to manage risk.

An Internet Technology firm relies on a web application that consists of a large variety of internally developed ASP pages running on IIS web servers. The ASP pages themselves interact with a SQL server database back-end, and are used to quickly track and view customer and employee data and ultimately provide better customer support.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with Application Security Manager was implemented by the National Insurance Institute of Israel to combine intelligent load balancing, performance improvement, and security modules on a single platform.

In support of its mission as a world-class research university, POSTECH is constantly seeking to innovate and improve its use of technology. Using F5 solutions, the university upgraded its IT infrastructure to improve the performance of its SAP applications, reduce operations costs, and ensure application security.

In a fully redundant TrafficShield configuration, alongside its BIG-IP 3400's, F5 gives the Sporting Index an effective solution to website security, SSL encryption and load balancing without compromising performance.

PharmaML is a new protocol aimed at standardizing stock management processes in France's pharmaceutical industry. TEVA Santé, one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world, recognized that the new standard presented data security issues. The company began a major IT project focused on addressing these issues while still ensuring reliability and service levels for the various sales channels. By implementing F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager, TEVA Santé has been able to secure its online ordering system, maintain high availability, and achieve regulatory compliance in the face of changing competitive needs and industry standards.

With more than 2.5 million users accessing Vurv's web-based applications worldwide, traffic management and security are top concerns. That's why Vurv uses the BIG-IP LTM with ASM to ensure high performance and defend against intrusion.

AGL Resources relies on four different F5 products to support their growing infrastructure investments and to improve their ROI. All four, in varying degrees, help AGL Resources secure, optimize and deliver their applications reliably and cost-effectively to any user, anywhere in the world, using any device.

By implementing the BIG-IP LTM with the WebAccelerator module, AUTOonline delivered high performance and availability for its website and ensured the scalability of its systems as it continues to grow its business worldwide.

Recognizing the need to provide high performance and availability for critical business applications accessed by internal and external users, Administaff deploys F5's BIG-IP application delivery networking solution (both in the local and wide-area network), along with the BIG-IP Link Controller.

Aéroports de Paris chose the FirePass from F5 to meet its secure remote access needs. Additionally, in order to ensure the high level of availability and the scalability of the secure remote access through FirePass, ADP also opted for the BIG-IP solution.

By using F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Alibaba was able to consistently provide high-quality and secure services to its 24/7 worldwide customer base.

The benefits of TrueView and BIG-IP LTM extend well beyond the network-focused areas of the IT team. And the ability to monitor applications has brought about a fundamental change in the ways the infrastructure and applications teams work together.

Deploying F5 immediately improved active session stability and AIM's customers noticed faster response times within the web application right away.

By implementing F5 Message Security Module on the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager it uses to manage traffic, American Internet Services immediately dropped the amount of spam reaching its servers by 60 percent.

AutoScout24 decided to integrate a separate load-balancing level based on BIG-IP LTM. BIG-IP LTM incorporates a range of monitoring functions for servers, applications and network components and uses them to determine which server is in the best position to execute a user's request.

Averitt Express significantly improved the experience of its customers who rely on its self-service website to initiate and track freight shipments, with help from Application Delivery Networking products from F5.

BMW Group is currently migrating all of their applications to the BIG-IP system to keep them available 24/7, secure, and fast. In addition to high availability and performance, there are other significant benefits to using BIG-IP, including the SSL functionality and scalability.

F5 gives Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Law better control of corporate data and more efficient network performance at all levels, as well as allowing more flexible working patterns to be adopted more widely, allowing employees to become more mobile and more productive.

With limited IT expertise available in-house, Blink also required a remote access solution that could be installed in less than 30 minutes, was intuitively easy to use, and required very little day-to-day maintenance. Blink employs F5's FirePass 600 SSL VPN as an affordable and effective method for ensuring constant and secure access to their server and the critical information it contains.

By using F5 solutions, Blue Cross Blue Shield dramatically improved page load times, supercharged their application performance, improved their scalability to meet future growth challenges, and effectively locked down their data to meet the rigorous compliance goals mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

BlueFort Security is highly experienced in delivering customer solutions based on the BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system. After testing the beta version of BIG-IP version 10 (v10), the company was so convinced of the value of the upcoming release that it deployed the beta to its production web servers. With BIG-IP v10, BlueFort Security has experienced a 60 percent reduction in server load, and believes that the new version will result in performance improvements as well as significant data center cost savings for its customers.

BlueLock's virtualized environment enables the company to provide cost-effective IT infrastructure services while ensuring that clients' infrastructures always meet their business needs. BIG-IP LTM helps BlueLock take full advantage of the efficiencies and opportunities its virtualized environment offers.

BorderWare and F5 Networks developed a joint solution for enterprise email management. By combining the patented stateful failover of BorderWare's MXtreme Mail Firewall with F5's BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system, enterprises can achieve unprecedented levels of email availability, reliability, scalability, and security.

To deal with the peaks in traffic, Boscov's IT group implemented F5's WebAccelerator to optimize its web application performance. While page views have doubled, CPU usage has dropped by half, allowing Boscov's IT group to focus on driving sales rather than building infrastructure.

F5's solutions perform very strongly for British American Tobacco, enabling them to guarantee high availability for their new global portal and SAP HR applications.

British Land is the largest real estate company in the UK with a portfolio of 12.5 billion British pounds. To promote collaborative working and knowledge sharing, British Land implemented a web-based portal using software from Plumtree. The portal proved extremely beneficial, but was subject to frustrating performance concerns. To enhance the usability of the portal, British Land deployed F5 WebAccelerator™. The solution resulted in a 700% improvement in performance and reduced bandwidth utilization by 5X.

Together, Bytemobile and F5 have teamed to address the needs of one of Bytemobile's largest tier-one customers in Europe, using the F5 VIPRION system.

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Caixa Galicia, one of the most prominent financial institutions in Spain, uses F5 to provide high service availability, reduce bandwidth, and increase application security levels.

By using F5 BIG-IP LTM with iRules, Casero was able to respond to its telecom client's request for a high-performance, custom product very quickly and cost-effectively and ensure a lower total cost of operation (TCO) on a long-term basis.

The relationships between partnering companies, like F5 and Oracle, often result in a competitive advantage over organizations trying to succeed alone. These technology partnerships are further enhanced by companies like CINTRA, system architects who implement these integrated solutions, offering intelligent configurations for complex environments.

F5's BIG-IP system not only allowed Classified Ventures to obtain a marked gain in application performance and improve the end user experience, but it worked to absorb increases in bandwidth costs.

When CombineNet was searching for a comprehensive solution that could provide application security, enhance scalability, and directly integrate applications via open standards, they looked to the flexibility and power of F5 Networks BIG-IP® application traffic management product and the iControl® SDK/API, to increase network performance and substantially reduce costs.

Confucius Institute online portal, was launched in March 2009. Just as the portal's contents and services are quickly expanding, so, too, is traffic to the website. This quick growth requires a scalable and secure portal infrastructure to best serve people worldwide. With a content delivery network built on F5 devices and solutions, Confucius Institute Online is prepared for the future, and it is ensuring scalability, flexibility, and security for its online venture.

Since deploying BIG-IP WebAccelerator, Crystal Cruises has seen onboard Internet performance triple and Internet usage double. The company has realized a one-month return on its BIG-IP WebAccelerator investment in bandwidth savings alone.

By integrating the security, optimization, and load-balancing functions on one platform, Crédit Coopératif benefits from standardizing the security and maintenance of the applications. This one-stop solution for rolling out applications to users reduces the total cost of ownership by using the resources needed to manage these functions more efficiently.

After a thorough evaluation of more than 12 other products, Cvent chose the F5 BIG-IP devices. It was "a generation or more ahead of other vendors," says Dwayne Sye, VP of Technology. Cvent focused its evaluation on ive primary factors - functionality, performance, reliability, ease-of-management, and total cost of ownership.

Using F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, DNSstuff.com reduced its downtime whenever a server fails from minutes or hours to mere milliseconds.

Datacenter Stockholm helps more than 100 companies in 30 countries achieve more secure and efficient managed IT environments on a 24x7 basis. The company’s roots lie in the media vertical but it has expanded over the years to serve other customer types, including online retailers. They selected F5 FirePass SSL VPN for its ability to secure authentication of remote access users. In addition to enhancing secure remote access, Datacenter Stockholm also needed to refresh its traffic management technology. The company replaced its two existing BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 1000 platforms with F5’s new BIG-IP LTM 3600 series.

F5's BIG-IP local traffic manager provides IT service provider T-Systems with the tools that allow customers to enjoy secure and reliable access to Deutsche Post's STAMPIT PC postage system.

F5 Networks BIG-IP device helps Discovery Networks Europe provide scalability during peak viewing periods, allow application servers to be taken offline without loss of service, simplify operations by integrating load balancing with SSL, improve performance, and more.

With F5, DoubleClick experiences premium ad performance and increased server capacity to meet the growing need for their mission-critical ad services. F5 also delivers a streamlined management approach to handle DoubleClick's expected growth in an operationally efficient manner.

A key challenge Droga Raia's IT team faced was to reduce communications costs without affecting business continuity. This cost saving was crucial because expenses with connection services were significant and increasing. By implementing F5^® BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager^™ (LTM) Application Delivery Controller with the BIG-IP WebAccelerator^™ product module, Droga Raia has experienced dramatic savings in bandwidth costs and improved the performance of business applications running in a distributed environment.

EZTec used F5's Application Ready Deployment Guides for Oracle 10g Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite to successfully implement Oracle solutions with the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

With the installation of WebAccelerator, Epson now supports over 1 million page views per day. Epson.com has realized a dramatic and consistent increase in response time, from an average of 75 seconds to less than one second, regardless of traffic.

By implementing F5 BIG-IP Message Security Module (MSM), F5's IT department has been able to drop 60 percent of unwanted inbound email before it reaches the IT infrastructure. This has resulted in a significant cost savings, a more efficient use of resources, and faster delivery for priority email.

The BIG-IP LTM enabled FMR to undertake a huge, strategic IT infrastructure change. With the implementation of BIG-IP LTM, FMR was able to create a single system for all its clients' services, while using BIG-IP LTM to separate communications relating to different clients. This new network infrastructure paved the way for service improvements. They also deployed BIG-IP Application Security Manager and the FirePass controller SSL VPN.

Today some 110,000 investors in the United Kingdom and New Zealand count on FNZ-powered web sites for help in planning their financial future. Serving so many people might have been impossible had FNZ not done some advance planning of its own. Thanks in part to F5's BIG-IP products and other F5 solutions, the company equipped itself from the outset to supply an expanding customer base with fast, reliable, and secure access to financial data.

First American created a cohesive IT operation capable of providing a standard services catalog, service level agreements (SLAs), and disaster recovery guarantees for all business units. Now centralized using F5 Application Delivery Networking solutions and a highly virtualized server infrastructure with VMware, IT is far more nimble, efficient, and cost-effective in meeting business needs than it was previously.

By developing an iRule, the telecommunications company saved $1 million and solved a phone software problem in a weekend instead of the nine months quoted by the phone's manufacturer. Through the use of iRules along with F5's BIG-IP LTM and GTM, the company improved efficiencies for delivering voice, video, data and wireless services seamlessly and transparently to customers over a common network.

Implementing BIG-IP LTM solved the university's application delivery challenges and opened up new opportunities to address its future strategy.

This white paper details the technical architecture and configurations implemented for the public website supporting the 2007 Boston Marathon race. It provides background information on the 2006 website’s architecture and highlights changes made to the 2007 website. The paper also provides detailed configuration diagrams as well as a sampling of race day performance data.

F5's Application Security Manager is critical to InCharge's risk management model. The Application Security Manager gives InCharge insight and knowledge of their DMZ, and enhances their ability to manage risk.

Deploying F5 solutions enabled ICBC to simplify its IT system and network while improving the user experience for its online banking customers.

Using F5 Networks 3-DNS® Controller (BIG-IP GTM) to automatically steer corporate users to backup systems, this organization was able cut their fail-over time, while removing the need to coordinate far reaching changes throughout their enterprise.

An Internet Technology firm relies on a web application that consists of a large variety of internally developed ASP pages running on IIS web servers. The ASP pages themselves interact with a SQL server database back-end, and are used to quickly track and view customer and employee data and ultimately provide better customer support.

As an open cloud computing vendor, Joyent, Inc. has more than 25,000+ customers ranging in size from small developers to Fortune 500 companies. To provide flexible, highly scalable open cloud computing that is application-aware, Joyent chose F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) as part of its core architecture at its cloud's edge.

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 6400, Komplett improved the speed and stability of its websites, boosted the efficiency of its email communications, put its online payment procedures in line with international security standards, and greatly simplified the management of its security certificates.

Taking advantage of a versatile product suite, Lake Forest Hospital chose F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN to keep their network applications safe, reliable, and fast.

By implementing F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Leibniz Computing Center improved application performance on its expansive network, reduced operating costs, and prepared its infrastructure to meet emerging standards (IPv6).

The power of the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager has made it a central control point for the entire Lloyds Pharmacy network. A real workhorse, it handles address distribution and crypto-offload along with standard data management, in a highly secure environment.

During the 2002 Winter Olympics, traffic to the MSNBC.com site cumulated with over 9 million daily visitors and over 74 million page views -- yet the site maintained 99.98% availability at the core, thanks in part to a strong infrastructure, smart planning, and traffic management products from F5 Networks.

On an average day, approximately 800 megabytes to 1.2 gigabits of traffic per second travels through the BIG-IP devices to both msnbc.com data centers. On November 4, 2008, msnbc.com experienced 2g of traffic per second to both data centers. To support this increase, the company relied on devices from F5 Networks to manage site traffic and ensure high availability despite unprecedented traffic volumes.

Marine Resources Group companies operate around the globe, providing a wide range of marine transportation services to customers in a variety of industries. With 1,600+ employees working around the clock, around the globe, and on land and sea, email is the vital communication link that keeps the organization connected. To maintain this line of communication MRG uses Microsoft Exchange Server and F5 BIG-IP LTM.

For the core of their critical online services, Matsui selected F5 Networks' BIG-IP v9 Local Traffic Manager for load distribution and SSL processing.

The BIG-IP system is an integral part of MercadoLibre's goals of providing a fast, reliable, and secure site for millions of online buyers and sellers in Latin America - today and well into the future.

Utilizing an XML interface, Microsoft was able to integrate F5's BIG-IP traffic manager with Application Center 2000 clusters. The BIG-IP device is a high availability traffic manager that utilizes Microsoft application-specific information to influence local traffic control.

The BIG-IP has enabled MSN Games to "vastly improve" their ability to do server maintenance by pushing traffic to other servers without dropping connections. Overall system availability has gone from 80 percent to 99.5 percent without random errors, slow web page responses, or the "500" errors that indicate servers are too busy.

Mustang Engineering successfully deployed and maintains a highly responsive SharePoint Server 2007 environment with help from F5 Application Delivery Networking products.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with Application Security Manager was implemented by the National Insurance Institute of Israel to combine intelligent load balancing, performance improvement, and security modules on a single platform.

The BIG-IP Link Controller not only ensured that customers were connected, but it allowed NWMLS to increase user performance and ensure that their corporate bandwidth investments were maximized to their fullest extent.

F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass Controller, enabled Organon Pharmaceuticals to dramatically reduce access, administrative, and support costs compared to previous solutions.

PDXLAN employs F5's BIG-IP Link Controller to manage both incoming and outgoing traffic, to direct users over the best link, and to ensure that gamers at PDXLAN events have the best experience possible.

In support of its mission as a world-class research university, POSTECH is constantly seeking to innovate and improve its use of technology. Using F5 solutions, the university upgraded its IT infrastructure to improve the performance of its SAP applications, reduce operations costs, and ensure application security.

Recognizing the need for a robust application delivery networking product that would give their clients highly available and secure access to their documents and to their site, PaperHost chose F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for unprecedented availability, reliability, scalability, and security.

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Rapattoni replaced their previous traffic management device (NetScaler) with F5's BIG-IP Application Traffic Management solution, citing better end-user performance, increased scalability, lower TCO, granular control over traffic Compression, and a mature and intuitive user interface.

RelayHealth provides a software as a service (SaaS) platform for the healthcare industry that connects patients, providers, pharmacies, payers, and financial institutions. RelayHealth simplified its application delivery infrastructure and improved the performance, reliability, and manageability of its applications by implementing F5 BIG-IP solutions.

For Ritz Interactive, the BIG-IP WebAccelerator decreases server use by 50 percent, decreases download times by 20 percent, and decreases bandwidth usage anywhere from 20 to 50 percent

Rotary International deployed a new public-facing website using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. To encourage viewership and achieve optimal return on its SharePoint investment, Rotary uses the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 3400 device to manage site traffic. With F5 devices, Rotary maintains high website availability, has simplified administration, and has freed-up server processor usage as much as 20 percent, resulting in significant infrastructure cost savings.

The Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (Netherlands Internet Domain Registration Foundation, or SIDN) is responsible for issuing and registering all Dutch domain names. Using F5 BIG-IP LTM, SIDN reduced the complexity of its IT infrastructure, reduced the cost of system management, and sped up access to request and registration applications via its website.

When you are responsible for hosting some of the biggest e-commerce and content sites in the country, you can’t afford to take chances. Smile Media wanted to reduce the risk of downtime and improve application performance, and at the same time scale up its IT infrastructure to meet the needs of growing numbers of Internet users. It selected F5's BIG- IP® Local Traffic Manager™, and has benefited from reduced costs, time efficiencies, high availability and faster page loads.

F5's BIG-IP Link Controller, an integrated load balancing product, proved to be the ideal solution for the District, successfully managing both incoming and outgoing site traffic, directing users over the best link, and completely eliminating previous complaints about site accessibility and speed.

In a fully redundant TrafficShield configuration, alongside its BIG-IP 3400's, F5 gives the Sporting Index an effective solution to website security, SSL encryption and load balancing without compromising performance.

Using BIG-IP LTM with the ANGEL Learning Management System, Stark State College has improved the performance of its online learning and administrative applications, dramatically reduced downtime, and attracted higher enrollment in its e-learning program.

Through the use of VMware virtualization software to help manage the application servers, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to manage the large databases, an F5® Networks BIG-IP® load balancer to send the requests to the application servers, and Spotlight from Quest Software to help manage the Oracle RAC databases, the Dell-SUNY POC architecture successfully For institutions of higher education, a scalable IT infrastructure can be critical. To demonstrate the scalability and performance of SunGard Higher Education’s Banner® software on Dell™ hardware, Dell collaborated with the State University of New York to build and test a proof-ofconcept architecture designed to handle up to 175,000 students with sub-second response times. By Dave Jaffe, Ph.D. Kai Yu Dan Brint Scaling SunGard Higher Education Banner Software on Dell Hardware Related Categories: Dell PowerEdge servers Dell/EMC storage F5 Networks Higher education Oracle Quest Software SunGard VMware Visit DELL.COM/PowerSolutions for the complete category index. 1 For more information, see “Unity and Freedom in One Seamless Solution,” by Dell Inc., January 2007, DELL.COM/Content/Topics/Global.aspx/CaseStudies/fy2008_q3_id706?c=us&cs= RC956904&l=en&s=hied. CASE STUDY: EDUCATION Solutions CASE STUDY: EDUCATION Solutions 56 DELL POWER SOLUTIONS | August 2008 Reprinted from Dell Power Solutions, August 2008. Copyright © 2008 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. handled a workload representing 175,000 students while providing sub-second response times.

StepStone selected the F5 BIG-IP LTM system to perform load balancing, SSL encryption and caching; replacing their previous six device solution with one device.

StubHub, an online ticket marketplace, enables fans to buy and sell tickets for live entertainment events. When the company was purchased by eBay, it redesigned its network infrastructure and included the VIPRION Application Delivery Controller from F5. With higher site traffic capacity and availability, StubHub can continue to enhance the customer experience and increase market share and revenue while minimizing IT costs.

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, TALX has reduced download times for large graphic files as much as two-thirds and is delivering fast and unbroken application performance to its users.

PharmaML is a new protocol aimed at standardizing stock management processes in France's pharmaceutical industry. TEVA Santé, one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world, recognized that the new standard presented data security issues. The company began a major IT project focused on addressing these issues while still ensuring reliability and service levels for the various sales channels. By implementing F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager, TEVA Santé has been able to secure its online ordering system, maintain high availability, and achieve regulatory compliance in the face of changing competitive needs and industry standards.

With F5 products, the City of Diamond Bar has improved its security posture and built a stable and dynamic e-government presence while lowering its costs and enabling better service and support from its vendors. The city now uses FirePass to provide secure remote access to 45 major vendors and more than 50 city employees. For the past year, the city has been using F5 BIG-IP Link Controller to balance traffic to its website across two circuits—one from the local phone company and the other from a cable provider—simultaneously.

Recognizing the need for products that ensure high availability and reliable delivery of their data to a far-reaching global community, Thomson Scientific and Healthcare relies on F5's BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (formerly 3-DNS) and F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

Transplace redesigned its IT infrastructure for higher efficiency and to provide a better customer experience. The redesign included virtualization technology from VMware. To realize the full benefits of its virtualized environment, the company used BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking devices from F5.

Developer for Major Provider of Transportation Services Builds F5 iRule That Provides Persistent Connections to Multiple Data Centers Without Disrupting Data Flow

One year after implementing the BIG-IP product, Tucows is providing faster connection speeds and 99.999 percent system availability to its service provider customers. The company is also benefitting from simplified IT maintenance and administration.

The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) ranks among the top European research universities. Problems with the university’s IT infrastructure were causing downtime for users and inefficient utilization of server capacity. By implementing F5 BIG‑IP LTM in a centralized IT infrastructure, the university has been able to optimize utilization of physical and virtual servers, introduce a powerful new collaboration service, and ensure that users always have access to all of the university’s IT services.

Vega chose the F5 product because it could be easily incorporated into their system without affecting th existing infrastructure. More importantly, F5 helped them solve persistent problems, including bandwidth and application delivery challenges.

The F5 solution has greatly improved the resilience of the Virgin Radio website while providing an invaluable monitoring service that also serves to efficiently load balance the new podcast download facility.

With more than 2.5 million users accessing Vurv's web-based applications worldwide, traffic management and security are top concerns. That's why Vurv uses the BIG-IP LTM with ASM to ensure high performance and defend against intrusion.

With F5's solutions, XCalibre's entire "virtualisation" infrastructure is much easier to maintain. IT personnel can make hardware swaps, memory upgrades and configuration changes without having to disrupt customer services.

With the need to maintain high security and adhere to the implementation schedule, a simple iRule was created and implemented within the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager which restructured IP packets to circumvent an application bug and allow the project to complete on time with no compromise to performance, security or design.

As a long-standing F5 customer, easyJet upgraded their F5 products to support the 32 web servers across both facilities. In addition, easyJet deployed two FirePass SSL VPN 4100s to provide support staff with secure remote access to its infrastructure for performing routine maintenance and fault resolution.

AGL Resources relies on four different F5 products to support their growing infrastructure investments and to improve their ROI. All four, in varying degrees, help AGL Resources secure, optimize and deliver their applications reliably and cost-effectively to any user, anywhere in the world, using any device.

By implementing the BIG-IP LTM with the WebAccelerator module, AUTOonline delivered high performance and availability for its website and ensured the scalability of its systems as it continues to grow its business worldwide.

Recognizing the need to provide high performance and availability for critical business applications accessed by internal and external users, Administaff deploys F5's BIG-IP application delivery networking solution (both in the local and wide-area network), along with the BIG-IP Link Controller.

By using F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Alibaba was able to consistently provide high-quality and secure services to its 24/7 worldwide customer base.

The benefits of TrueView and BIG-IP LTM extend well beyond the network-focused areas of the IT team. And the ability to monitor applications has brought about a fundamental change in the ways the infrastructure and applications teams work together.

Deploying F5 immediately improved active session stability and AIM's customers noticed faster response times within the web application right away.

By implementing F5 Message Security Module on the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager it uses to manage traffic, American Internet Services immediately dropped the amount of spam reaching its servers by 60 percent.

AutoScout24 decided to integrate a separate load-balancing level based on BIG-IP LTM. BIG-IP LTM incorporates a range of monitoring functions for servers, applications and network components and uses them to determine which server is in the best position to execute a user's request.

BMW Group is currently migrating all of their applications to the BIG-IP system to keep them available 24/7, secure, and fast. In addition to high availability and performance, there are other significant benefits to using BIG-IP, including the SSL functionality and scalability.

By using F5 solutions, Blue Cross Blue Shield dramatically improved page load times, supercharged their application performance, improved their scalability to meet future growth challenges, and effectively locked down their data to meet the rigorous compliance goals mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

BlueFort Security is highly experienced in delivering customer solutions based on the BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system. After testing the beta version of BIG-IP version 10 (v10), the company was so convinced of the value of the upcoming release that it deployed the beta to its production web servers. With BIG-IP v10, BlueFort Security has experienced a 60 percent reduction in server load, and believes that the new version will result in performance improvements as well as significant data center cost savings for its customers.

BlueLock's virtualized environment enables the company to provide cost-effective IT infrastructure services while ensuring that clients' infrastructures always meet their business needs. BIG-IP LTM helps BlueLock take full advantage of the efficiencies and opportunities its virtualized environment offers.

BorderWare and F5 Networks developed a joint solution for enterprise email management. By combining the patented stateful failover of BorderWare's MXtreme Mail Firewall with F5's BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system, enterprises can achieve unprecedented levels of email availability, reliability, scalability, and security.

F5's solutions perform very strongly for British American Tobacco, enabling them to guarantee high availability for their new global portal and SAP HR applications.

Together, Bytemobile and F5 have teamed to address the needs of one of Bytemobile's largest tier-one customers in Europe, using the F5 VIPRION system.

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Caixa Galicia, one of the most prominent financial institutions in Spain, uses F5 to provide high service availability, reduce bandwidth, and increase application security levels.

By using F5 BIG-IP LTM with iRules, Casero was able to respond to its telecom client's request for a high-performance, custom product very quickly and cost-effectively and ensure a lower total cost of operation (TCO) on a long-term basis.

The relationships between partnering companies, like F5 and Oracle, often result in a competitive advantage over organizations trying to succeed alone. These technology partnerships are further enhanced by companies like CINTRA, system architects who implement these integrated solutions, offering intelligent configurations for complex environments.

F5's BIG-IP system not only allowed Classified Ventures to obtain a marked gain in application performance and improve the end user experience, but it worked to absorb increases in bandwidth costs.

When CombineNet was searching for a comprehensive solution that could provide application security, enhance scalability, and directly integrate applications via open standards, they looked to the flexibility and power of F5 Networks BIG-IP® application traffic management product and the iControl® SDK/API, to increase network performance and substantially reduce costs.

Confucius Institute online portal, was launched in March 2009. Just as the portal's contents and services are quickly expanding, so, too, is traffic to the website. This quick growth requires a scalable and secure portal infrastructure to best serve people worldwide. With a content delivery network built on F5 devices and solutions, Confucius Institute Online is prepared for the future, and it is ensuring scalability, flexibility, and security for its online venture.

By integrating the security, optimization, and load-balancing functions on one platform, Crédit Coopératif benefits from standardizing the security and maintenance of the applications. This one-stop solution for rolling out applications to users reduces the total cost of ownership by using the resources needed to manage these functions more efficiently.

After a thorough evaluation of more than 12 other products, Cvent chose the F5 BIG-IP devices. It was "a generation or more ahead of other vendors," says Dwayne Sye, VP of Technology. Cvent focused its evaluation on ive primary factors - functionality, performance, reliability, ease-of-management, and total cost of ownership.

Using F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, DNSstuff.com reduced its downtime whenever a server fails from minutes or hours to mere milliseconds.

Datacenter Stockholm helps more than 100 companies in 30 countries achieve more secure and efficient managed IT environments on a 24x7 basis. The company’s roots lie in the media vertical but it has expanded over the years to serve other customer types, including online retailers. They selected F5 FirePass SSL VPN for its ability to secure authentication of remote access users. In addition to enhancing secure remote access, Datacenter Stockholm also needed to refresh its traffic management technology. The company replaced its two existing BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 1000 platforms with F5’s new BIG-IP LTM 3600 series.

F5's BIG-IP local traffic manager provides IT service provider T-Systems with the tools that allow customers to enjoy secure and reliable access to Deutsche Post's STAMPIT PC postage system.

With F5, DoubleClick experiences premium ad performance and increased server capacity to meet the growing need for their mission-critical ad services. F5 also delivers a streamlined management approach to handle DoubleClick's expected growth in an operationally efficient manner.

A key challenge Droga Raia's IT team faced was to reduce communications costs without affecting business continuity. This cost saving was crucial because expenses with connection services were significant and increasing. By implementing F5^® BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager^™ (LTM) Application Delivery Controller with the BIG-IP WebAccelerator^™ product module, Droga Raia has experienced dramatic savings in bandwidth costs and improved the performance of business applications running in a distributed environment.

EZTec used F5's Application Ready Deployment Guides for Oracle 10g Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite to successfully implement Oracle solutions with the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

The BIG-IP LTM enabled FMR to undertake a huge, strategic IT infrastructure change. With the implementation of BIG-IP LTM, FMR was able to create a single system for all its clients' services, while using BIG-IP LTM to separate communications relating to different clients. This new network infrastructure paved the way for service improvements. They also deployed BIG-IP Application Security Manager and the FirePass controller SSL VPN.

Today some 110,000 investors in the United Kingdom and New Zealand count on FNZ-powered web sites for help in planning their financial future. Serving so many people might have been impossible had FNZ not done some advance planning of its own. Thanks in part to F5's BIG-IP products and other F5 solutions, the company equipped itself from the outset to supply an expanding customer base with fast, reliable, and secure access to financial data.

First American created a cohesive IT operation capable of providing a standard services catalog, service level agreements (SLAs), and disaster recovery guarantees for all business units. Now centralized using F5 Application Delivery Networking solutions and a highly virtualized server infrastructure with VMware, IT is far more nimble, efficient, and cost-effective in meeting business needs than it was previously.

By developing an iRule, the telecommunications company saved $1 million and solved a phone software problem in a weekend instead of the nine months quoted by the phone's manufacturer. Through the use of iRules along with F5's BIG-IP LTM and GTM, the company improved efficiencies for delivering voice, video, data and wireless services seamlessly and transparently to customers over a common network.

Implementing BIG-IP LTM solved the university's application delivery challenges and opened up new opportunities to address its future strategy.

This white paper details the technical architecture and configurations implemented for the public website supporting the 2007 Boston Marathon race. It provides background information on the 2006 website’s architecture and highlights changes made to the 2007 website. The paper also provides detailed configuration diagrams as well as a sampling of race day performance data.

Deploying F5 solutions enabled ICBC to simplify its IT system and network while improving the user experience for its online banking customers.

As an open cloud computing vendor, Joyent, Inc. has more than 25,000+ customers ranging in size from small developers to Fortune 500 companies. To provide flexible, highly scalable open cloud computing that is application-aware, Joyent chose F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) as part of its core architecture at its cloud's edge.

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 6400, Komplett improved the speed and stability of its websites, boosted the efficiency of its email communications, put its online payment procedures in line with international security standards, and greatly simplified the management of its security certificates.

By implementing F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Leibniz Computing Center improved application performance on its expansive network, reduced operating costs, and prepared its infrastructure to meet emerging standards (IPv6).

The power of the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager has made it a central control point for the entire Lloyds Pharmacy network. A real workhorse, it handles address distribution and crypto-offload along with standard data management, in a highly secure environment.

During the 2002 Winter Olympics, traffic to the MSNBC.com site cumulated with over 9 million daily visitors and over 74 million page views -- yet the site maintained 99.98% availability at the core, thanks in part to a strong infrastructure, smart planning, and traffic management products from F5 Networks.

On an average day, approximately 800 megabytes to 1.2 gigabits of traffic per second travels through the BIG-IP devices to both msnbc.com data centers. On November 4, 2008, msnbc.com experienced 2g of traffic per second to both data centers. To support this increase, the company relied on devices from F5 Networks to manage site traffic and ensure high availability despite unprecedented traffic volumes.

Marine Resources Group companies operate around the globe, providing a wide range of marine transportation services to customers in a variety of industries. With 1,600+ employees working around the clock, around the globe, and on land and sea, email is the vital communication link that keeps the organization connected. To maintain this line of communication MRG uses Microsoft Exchange Server and F5 BIG-IP LTM.

For the core of their critical online services, Matsui selected F5 Networks' BIG-IP v9 Local Traffic Manager for load distribution and SSL processing.

The BIG-IP system is an integral part of MercadoLibre's goals of providing a fast, reliable, and secure site for millions of online buyers and sellers in Latin America - today and well into the future.

Utilizing an XML interface, Microsoft was able to integrate F5's BIG-IP traffic manager with Application Center 2000 clusters. The BIG-IP device is a high availability traffic manager that utilizes Microsoft application-specific information to influence local traffic control.

The BIG-IP has enabled MSN Games to "vastly improve" their ability to do server maintenance by pushing traffic to other servers without dropping connections. Overall system availability has gone from 80 percent to 99.5 percent without random errors, slow web page responses, or the "500" errors that indicate servers are too busy.

Mustang Engineering successfully deployed and maintains a highly responsive SharePoint Server 2007 environment with help from F5 Application Delivery Networking products.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with Application Security Manager was implemented by the National Insurance Institute of Israel to combine intelligent load balancing, performance improvement, and security modules on a single platform.

In support of its mission as a world-class research university, POSTECH is constantly seeking to innovate and improve its use of technology. Using F5 solutions, the university upgraded its IT infrastructure to improve the performance of its SAP applications, reduce operations costs, and ensure application security.

Recognizing the need for a robust application delivery networking product that would give their clients highly available and secure access to their documents and to their site, PaperHost chose F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager for unprecedented availability, reliability, scalability, and security.

RelayHealth provides a software as a service (SaaS) platform for the healthcare industry that connects patients, providers, pharmacies, payers, and financial institutions. RelayHealth simplified its application delivery infrastructure and improved the performance, reliability, and manageability of its applications by implementing F5 BIG-IP solutions.

Rotary International deployed a new public-facing website using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. To encourage viewership and achieve optimal return on its SharePoint investment, Rotary uses the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 3400 device to manage site traffic. With F5 devices, Rotary maintains high website availability, has simplified administration, and has freed-up server processor usage as much as 20 percent, resulting in significant infrastructure cost savings.

The Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (Netherlands Internet Domain Registration Foundation, or SIDN) is responsible for issuing and registering all Dutch domain names. Using F5 BIG-IP LTM, SIDN reduced the complexity of its IT infrastructure, reduced the cost of system management, and sped up access to request and registration applications via its website.

When you are responsible for hosting some of the biggest e-commerce and content sites in the country, you can’t afford to take chances. Smile Media wanted to reduce the risk of downtime and improve application performance, and at the same time scale up its IT infrastructure to meet the needs of growing numbers of Internet users. It selected F5's BIG- IP® Local Traffic Manager™, and has benefited from reduced costs, time efficiencies, high availability and faster page loads.

Using BIG-IP LTM with the ANGEL Learning Management System, Stark State College has improved the performance of its online learning and administrative applications, dramatically reduced downtime, and attracted higher enrollment in its e-learning program.

Through the use of VMware virtualization software to help manage the application servers, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to manage the large databases, an F5® Networks BIG-IP® load balancer to send the requests to the application servers, and Spotlight from Quest Software to help manage the Oracle RAC databases, the Dell-SUNY POC architecture successfully For institutions of higher education, a scalable IT infrastructure can be critical. To demonstrate the scalability and performance of SunGard Higher Education’s Banner® software on Dell™ hardware, Dell collaborated with the State University of New York to build and test a proof-ofconcept architecture designed to handle up to 175,000 students with sub-second response times. By Dave Jaffe, Ph.D. Kai Yu Dan Brint Scaling SunGard Higher Education Banner Software on Dell Hardware Related Categories: Dell PowerEdge servers Dell/EMC storage F5 Networks Higher education Oracle Quest Software SunGard VMware Visit DELL.COM/PowerSolutions for the complete category index. 1 For more information, see “Unity and Freedom in One Seamless Solution,” by Dell Inc., January 2007, DELL.COM/Content/Topics/Global.aspx/CaseStudies/fy2008_q3_id706?c=us&cs= RC956904&l=en&s=hied. CASE STUDY: EDUCATION Solutions CASE STUDY: EDUCATION Solutions 56 DELL POWER SOLUTIONS | August 2008 Reprinted from Dell Power Solutions, August 2008. Copyright © 2008 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. handled a workload representing 175,000 students while providing sub-second response times.

StepStone selected the F5 BIG-IP LTM system to perform load balancing, SSL encryption and caching; replacing their previous six device solution with one device.

StubHub, an online ticket marketplace, enables fans to buy and sell tickets for live entertainment events. When the company was purchased by eBay, it redesigned its network infrastructure and included the VIPRION Application Delivery Controller from F5. With higher site traffic capacity and availability, StubHub can continue to enhance the customer experience and increase market share and revenue while minimizing IT costs.

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, TALX has reduced download times for large graphic files as much as two-thirds and is delivering fast and unbroken application performance to its users.

Transplace redesigned its IT infrastructure for higher efficiency and to provide a better customer experience. The redesign included virtualization technology from VMware. To realize the full benefits of its virtualized environment, the company used BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking devices from F5.

Developer for Major Provider of Transportation Services Builds F5 iRule That Provides Persistent Connections to Multiple Data Centers Without Disrupting Data Flow

One year after implementing the BIG-IP product, Tucows is providing faster connection speeds and 99.999 percent system availability to its service provider customers. The company is also benefitting from simplified IT maintenance and administration.

The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) ranks among the top European research universities. Problems with the university’s IT infrastructure were causing downtime for users and inefficient utilization of server capacity. By implementing F5 BIG‑IP LTM in a centralized IT infrastructure, the university has been able to optimize utilization of physical and virtual servers, introduce a powerful new collaboration service, and ensure that users always have access to all of the university’s IT services.

Vega chose the F5 product because it could be easily incorporated into their system without affecting th existing infrastructure. More importantly, F5 helped them solve persistent problems, including bandwidth and application delivery challenges.

The F5 solution has greatly improved the resilience of the Virgin Radio website while providing an invaluable monitoring service that also serves to efficiently load balance the new podcast download facility.

With more than 2.5 million users accessing Vurv's web-based applications worldwide, traffic management and security are top concerns. That's why Vurv uses the BIG-IP LTM with ASM to ensure high performance and defend against intrusion.

With F5's solutions, XCalibre's entire "virtualisation" infrastructure is much easier to maintain. IT personnel can make hardware swaps, memory upgrades and configuration changes without having to disrupt customer services.

With the need to maintain high security and adhere to the implementation schedule, a simple iRule was created and implemented within the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager which restructured IP packets to circumvent an application bug and allow the project to complete on time with no compromise to performance, security or design.

As a long-standing F5 customer, easyJet upgraded their F5 products to support the 32 web servers across both facilities. In addition, easyJet deployed two FirePass SSL VPN 4100s to provide support staff with secure remote access to its infrastructure for performing routine maintenance and fault resolution.

AGL Resources relies on four different F5 products to support their growing infrastructure investments and to improve their ROI. All four, in varying degrees, help AGL Resources secure, optimize and deliver their applications reliably and cost-effectively to any user, anywhere in the world, using any device.

Recognizing the need to provide high performance and availability for critical business applications accessed by internal and external users, Administaff deploys F5's BIG-IP application delivery networking solution (both in the local and wide-area network), along with the BIG-IP Link Controller.

F5 gives Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Law better control of corporate data and more efficient network performance at all levels, as well as allowing more flexible working patterns to be adopted more widely, allowing employees to become more mobile and more productive.

By using F5 solutions, Blue Cross Blue Shield dramatically improved page load times, supercharged their application performance, improved their scalability to meet future growth challenges, and effectively locked down their data to meet the rigorous compliance goals mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Caixa Galicia, one of the most prominent financial institutions in Spain, uses F5 to provide high service availability, reduce bandwidth, and increase application security levels.

EZTec used F5's Application Ready Deployment Guides for Oracle 10g Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite to successfully implement Oracle solutions with the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

Today some 110,000 investors in the United Kingdom and New Zealand count on FNZ-powered web sites for help in planning their financial future. Serving so many people might have been impossible had FNZ not done some advance planning of its own. Thanks in part to F5's BIG-IP products and other F5 solutions, the company equipped itself from the outset to supply an expanding customer base with fast, reliable, and secure access to financial data.

Taking advantage of a versatile product suite, Lake Forest Hospital chose F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN to keep their network applications safe, reliable, and fast.

The BIG-IP Link Controller not only ensured that customers were connected, but it allowed NWMLS to increase user performance and ensure that their corporate bandwidth investments were maximized to their fullest extent.

F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass Controller, enabled Organon Pharmaceuticals to dramatically reduce access, administrative, and support costs compared to previous solutions.

PDXLAN employs F5's BIG-IP Link Controller to manage both incoming and outgoing traffic, to direct users over the best link, and to ensure that gamers at PDXLAN events have the best experience possible.

F5's BIG-IP Link Controller, an integrated load balancing product, proved to be the ideal solution for the District, successfully managing both incoming and outgoing site traffic, directing users over the best link, and completely eliminating previous complaints about site accessibility and speed.

With F5 products, the City of Diamond Bar has improved its security posture and built a stable and dynamic e-government presence while lowering its costs and enabling better service and support from its vendors. The city now uses FirePass to provide secure remote access to 45 major vendors and more than 50 city employees. For the past year, the city has been using F5 BIG-IP Link Controller to balance traffic to its website across two circuits—one from the local phone company and the other from a cable provider—simultaneously.

By implementing the BIG-IP LTM with the WebAccelerator module, AUTOonline delivered high performance and availability for its website and ensured the scalability of its systems as it continues to grow its business worldwide.

Averitt Express significantly improved the experience of its customers who rely on its self-service website to initiate and track freight shipments, with help from Application Delivery Networking products from F5.

BlueFort Security is highly experienced in delivering customer solutions based on the BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking system. After testing the beta version of BIG-IP version 10 (v10), the company was so convinced of the value of the upcoming release that it deployed the beta to its production web servers. With BIG-IP v10, BlueFort Security has experienced a 60 percent reduction in server load, and believes that the new version will result in performance improvements as well as significant data center cost savings for its customers.

To deal with the peaks in traffic, Boscov's IT group implemented F5's WebAccelerator to optimize its web application performance. While page views have doubled, CPU usage has dropped by half, allowing Boscov's IT group to focus on driving sales rather than building infrastructure.

F5's solutions perform very strongly for British American Tobacco, enabling them to guarantee high availability for their new global portal and SAP HR applications.

British Land is the largest real estate company in the UK with a portfolio of 12.5 billion British pounds. To promote collaborative working and knowledge sharing, British Land implemented a web-based portal using software from Plumtree. The portal proved extremely beneficial, but was subject to frustrating performance concerns. To enhance the usability of the portal, British Land deployed F5 WebAccelerator™. The solution resulted in a 700% improvement in performance and reduced bandwidth utilization by 5X.

Since deploying BIG-IP WebAccelerator, Crystal Cruises has seen onboard Internet performance triple and Internet usage double. The company has realized a one-month return on its BIG-IP WebAccelerator investment in bandwidth savings alone.

A key challenge Droga Raia's IT team faced was to reduce communications costs without affecting business continuity. This cost saving was crucial because expenses with connection services were significant and increasing. By implementing F5^® BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager^™ (LTM) Application Delivery Controller with the BIG-IP WebAccelerator^™ product module, Droga Raia has experienced dramatic savings in bandwidth costs and improved the performance of business applications running in a distributed environment.

With the installation of WebAccelerator, Epson now supports over 1 million page views per day. Epson.com has realized a dramatic and consistent increase in response time, from an average of 75 seconds to less than one second, regardless of traffic.

Deploying F5 solutions enabled ICBC to simplify its IT system and network while improving the user experience for its online banking customers.

Mustang Engineering successfully deployed and maintains a highly responsive SharePoint Server 2007 environment with help from F5 Application Delivery Networking products.

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For Ritz Interactive, the BIG-IP WebAccelerator decreases server use by 50 percent, decreases download times by 20 percent, and decreases bandwidth usage anywhere from 20 to 50 percent

When you are responsible for hosting some of the biggest e-commerce and content sites in the country, you can’t afford to take chances. Smile Media wanted to reduce the risk of downtime and improve application performance, and at the same time scale up its IT infrastructure to meet the needs of growing numbers of Internet users. It selected F5's BIG- IP® Local Traffic Manager™, and has benefited from reduced costs, time efficiencies, high availability and faster page loads.

Transplace redesigned its IT infrastructure for higher efficiency and to provide a better customer experience. The redesign included virtualization technology from VMware. To realize the full benefits of its virtualized environment, the company used BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking devices from F5.