Solution Profiles

Oracle GoldenGate is a software solution for copying database transactions from a source database to a target database. Transactional based and offering heterogeneous support for all major database products, Oracle GoldenGate is pretty close to the ultimate database continuous data protection (CDP) application. Because only the data required for a given transaction is sent to the replica, Oracle GoldenGate is a relatively lean near real-time replication engine. But when the target database is remote, the quality of the WAN link between the two databases—both latency and packet loss—affects the performance of GoldenGate. F5® BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module accelerates the WAN portion without interfering with Oracle GoldenGate’s communications, giving you a more stable replication process and a more up-to-date target database.

Today communication service providers (CSPs) are constantly looking for more application and service offerings, to increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets. To meet this demand, CSPs are turning to both managed services and hosted cloud offerings, to provide the flexibility of offering cutting-edge applications and services while still maintaining an acceptable quality of experience (QoE) for their subscribers. Whether CSPs offer hosted and managed enterprise applications or commercial applications directed to the subscriber, application-aware services and cloud service delivery are key for creating competitiveness and profitability. The F5 BIG-IP product family is a strategic point of control that provides scalability, reliability, and security to CSPs’ application-aware services and cloud service delivery.

With deployments of 4G wireless networks and next generation networks (NGNs) growing, demand for IP addresses to support increased subscriber and machine-to-machine traffic is also increasing. The F5 BIG-IP solutions enable communications service providers (CSP) to manage and deliver applications across both IPv4 and IPv6 infrastructures simultaneously. Using Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT) and the BIG-IP IPv6 Gateway Module, CSPs can also help lower the costs of managing both types of networks, and can help expedite the full migration from IPv4 to IPv6 for both internal services as well as external subscribers. Using F5 products and solutions, CSPs can build a strong foundation that maximizes the use of resources and increases service management, and remains agile enough to support both existing and future network architectures and new subscriber devices.

F5 BIG-IP devices for domain name services (DNS) are more than large-scale distributed global DNS products; they provide a complete, end-to-end and secure DNS delivery solution. BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager and Local Traffic Manager provide a more intelligent way to respond to DNS queries in light of network conditions and situations, distributing subscriber application requests and application services based on business policies, data center conditions, network status, and application performance. F5 products and solutions enable communication service providers (CSPs) to build a strong foundation that maximizes resources and increases dynamic service management while ensuring the agility and scalability to support future network architectures and devices.

F5 carrier-class products and solutions enable hosting and cloud providers to build a strong foundation that maximizes the use of resources, while remaining agile enough to support both traditional and cloud computing architectures.

NetApp SnapVault is a disk-to-disk backup tool that optimizes network backup traffic to reduce the amount of data flowing over your network while, also providing a correct copy of your data at the destination. To achieve this goal, SnapVault uses “change only” transmission, replicating only the blocks of data that have changed since the last update. Sometimes remote backup can get bogged down because of the volume of data, distance, or quality of connection between the source and destination. When over-the-WAN disk-to-disk backup needs to feel like over-the-LAN to meet your target Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives, F5 BIG-IP® WAN Optimization Module (WOM) can help.

The availability of new top-level domain (TLD) names will usher in a new era, acting as a catalyst to move beyond dot-com and into a new Internet that looks very different than the one we know today. Service providers, industry organizations, and others looking to customize and innovate around new TLDs will require the infrastructure to support and secure their investments. F5 DNS Services infrastructure and architectures can easily provide the foundation for organizations looking to take advantage of this exciting opportunity.

The increasing sophistication, frequency, and diversity of today’s network attacks are overwhelming conventional stateful security devices at the edge of the data center. A new data center architecture based on the firewall services of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) effectively combats modern attacks while providing significant CapEx savings.

SSL is a cryptographic protocol used to secure communications over the Internet. SSL ensures secure end-to-end transmission and is implemented in every web browser. The encryption and decryption of SSL is computationally intensive and can put a strain on server resources like CPU. F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers offer SSL offloading, providing relief from the processing burden of encrypting and decrypting traffic sent via SSL.

Service providers need technologies to satisfy changing market demands, maximize average revenue per user (ARPU), decrease operational expenditures (OpEx) and capital expenditures (CapEx), and minimize subscriber churn. F5 BIG-IP products and solutions provide a strategic point of control that combines scalability and high availability with intelligent traffic management and traffic steering. Using these BIG-IP system technologies, service providers can build a strong foundation that maximizes resource use and service management, while remaining agile enough to support both existing and future network architectures and new user devices.

F5 BIG-IP devices allow the flexibility to manage user access requirements in multiple locations in hosting and cloud-based user management deployments.

Moving to a virtualized and more agile data center infrastructure can reduce CapEx and OpEx, and streamline application deployment and delivery. Moving applications from dedicated hardware resources to virtualized software, however, can also increase resource constraints and negatively affect application performance and availability on the network. F5 offers multiple products and solutions that address application optimization and availability for virtualized infrastructure.

F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module (WOM) allows two BIG-IP devices to securely optimize active and passive FTP across the WAN and significantly reduce file transfer time.

BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module (WOM) enables two BIG-IP devices to optimize Hitachi Data Systems TrueCopy traffic over WAN connections. This reduces bandwidth requirements and improves security while maintaining a replication environment for backup or a redundant data center.

BIG-IP WOM optimizes the FlexCache update process and improves the performance of long-distance vMotion transfers over the WAN.

BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module (WOM) optimizes Microsoft Exchange mailbox replication across the WAN and accelerates transfer time. With WOM, your Exchange replication can be fast, secure, and optimized.

F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module (WOM) allows two BIG-IP devices to optimize NetApp SnapMirror and reduce replication time to disaster recovery (DR) sites. By adding inline deduplication, security, and compression to SnapMirror’s already impressive optimization algorithms, BIG-IP WOM saves time and money.

F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module (WOM) compresses, deduplicates, and encrypts data between two data centers. When used in conjunction with Oracle Data Guard, BIG-IP WOM improves the performance of replication while enabling the secure transfer of data within your database management system (DBMS). The more latency, congestion, and packet loss your connection suffers from, the more BIG-IP WOM improves your replication environment.

BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module (WOM) allows two BIG-IP devices to optimize Oracle Streams across the WAN and improve replication time.

The integration between F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) and Oracle Database Firewall provides richer forensic information on SQL injection attacks through correlated reporting.

F5 BIG-IP solutions provide high availability along with network optimization and security to the vital systems in the Control Plane.

BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager and Local Traffic Manager provide a more intelligent way to respond to DNS queries and take into account a variety of network conditions and situations.

JSON is a common AJAX-based application language used to deliver highly dynamic content. JSON is quickly becoming a popular technology for websites that need to replace only personalized sections of an HTML page. Unfortunately, the dynamic and rich nature of JSON messages also brings new security threats that can be targeted at very specific parts of a web page or at individual users. F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) secures JSON and AJAX message payloads to protect against XSS and JSON hijacking.

The ongoing introduction of new communications devices and applications, along with increased use of networks, is causing a massive increase in security risks. In this atmosphere, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) must protect both identity and private financial information while still allowing their subscribers to interact with applications and services on the Internet. To help CSPs launch new applications and services while protecting their networks—and, more importantly, their subscriber information—F5 offers the BIG-IP system, which provides a strategic point of control for network, application, and subscriber security.

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager for Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition (BIG-IP APM for LTM VE) provides advanced traffic management and helps ensure the maximum performance, availability, and security along with an optimized user experience for a rewarding VMware View implementation.

F5 products and solutions enable service providers to build a strong foundation that maximizes the use of resources and increases service management while remaining agile enough to support both existing and future network architectures and new user devices.

The F5 BIG-IP system supports heterogeneous virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) architectures comprising Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, Microsoft VDI, and VMware View by improving the security, reliability, and performance of VDI implementations. The BIG-IP system meets the unique challenges inherent in the design and deployment of architectures required to efficiently manage growth and scaling of virtual desktop services.

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) speeds applications through a variety of network improvements. BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager (WOM) allows two BIG-IP devices to optimize and secure connections between data centers, maximizing your bandwidth usage without the cost of upgrading connections. Together they improve your network responsiveness and adaptability.

Distributing video to mobile devices, along with the need to ensure that appropriate content is delivered to the correct device, can be a challenging endeavor. BIG-IP devices facilitate mobile content delivery by managing user and device access to the content servers.

F5 BIG-IP devices offer scalability and flexibility for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) employed in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for VoIP services, giving service providers the ability to integrate new voice and multimedia services with greater ease and confidence.