F5® BIG-IP®
Application Acceleration Manager™
enables organizations to reduce TCO and enhance user experience for
on-demand content
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
F5
Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV)
today announced F5®
BIG-IP® Application Acceleration Manager™
(AAM™), a unified solution that brings advanced application
acceleration and traffic management technologies together on one
integrated platform. In addition, to help enterprises easily assess the
performance of their web-based applications, F5 offers free of charge
the F5®
Application Speed Tester (FAST), a self-service benchmarking tool
that provides tangible data on anticipated performance improvements.
Leveraging BIG-IP AAM, organizations can cut first-visit page load times
for SaaS applications by as much as 50 percent and improve throughput in
high packet-loss environments (satellite connections and some mobile
networks) by up to 75 percent on mobile devices that use F5’s BIG-IP
Edge Client® solution.
The requirement to deliver on-demand content—especially streaming
video—to a variety of mobile devices is on a sharp growth trajectory.
This rising demand puts a great strain on networks and servers, which
can lead to poorly performing applications, user frustration, and low
productivity—even revenue loss. BIG-IP AAM helps organizations overcome
growing application performance issues as they move to web- and
cloud-based application deployments. By providing fast access to
applications, BIG-IP delivers a better user experience, improves data
center efficiency, and streamlines Application
Delivery Optimization, helping to reduce costs. BIG-IP AAM is based
on F5’s intelligent services framework that provides advanced
programmability, unified application services, and on-demand scalability.
“With the huge demands placed on corporate, public, and private networks
today, we understand how difficult it can be for organizations to
consistently deliver exceptional application performance to their
users,” said Jason Needham, VP of Product Management and Product
Marketing at F5. “With BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager, we’re
helping organizations solve that challenge by accelerating applications
wherever they reside—in the data center or in the cloud, and wherever
they’re delivered—on network-connected or mobile devices.”
Details
Today, organizations use multiple point solutions for video delivery,
web performance, and WAN optimization, but many fall short of growing
needs, and the burden of supporting these discrete solutions increases
IT cost and complexity.
BIG-IP AAM helps solve these issues using a variety of advanced
acceleration technologies, including delivery optimization for HLS (HTTP
Live Streaming), forward error correction (FEC), and symmetric
optimization. Enterprises using BIG-IP AAM will see the following
benefits:
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Improved User Experience – BIG-IP AAM provides relief for
mobile users, 74 percent of whom will purportedly abandon a web page
that doesn’t load within 5 seconds.1 With BIG-IP AAM, users
spend less time waiting for content to load and more time using
applications, so they’re able to work more productively from any
location or device. BIG-IP AAM reduces the amount of data sent to
mobile devices and overcomes inherent network latency issues, so video
quality is improved, web pages load faster, and applications perform
better—just the way users expect.
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Data Center TCO Savings – BIG-IP AAM offloads CPU-intensive
processing tasks to reduce load on servers and the network, and
because it sends less data over network, less bandwidth is required.
By combining numerous acceleration technologies in a single,
integrated solution, BIG-IP AAM eliminates the need for multiple point
solutions which, in turn, simplifies the IT infrastructure and reduces
management and training costs.
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Streamlined Application Delivery Optimization – BIG-IP AAM
enables organizations to support and optimize legacy (FTP, UDP) and
emerging (SPDY) protocols, so applications for any device can be
automatically optimized without the need to modify (recode) the
applications themselves. As a result, organizations can improve time
to market for new revenue-generating applications and focus on
developing strategic applications rather than troubleshooting the
infrastructure.
BIG-IP AAM leverages today’s most advanced application acceleration
technologies and incorporates features found in BIG-IP
WebAccelerator™ and BIG-IP
WAN Optimization Manager™. In addition, F5 remains one of
the few networking vendors to include standard acceleration features
free of charge in its core Application Delivery Controller (ADC)
solution. Beginning with version 11.4, BIG-IP
Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM®) will incorporate
support for TCP optimization, compression, bandwidth control, iSession®
technology, and SPDY as core capabilities.
Availability
BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager will be generally available in
June 2013 as a BIG-IP add-on module and as a standalone solution. Please
contact a local
F5 sales office for availability in specific countries. The F5
Application Speed Tester (FAST) is available today. To learn more
about these and other F5 products, visit us in Booth #801 at Velocity
2013, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, June 18 ̶20.
1What
Users Want from Mobile; Equation Research for Compuware; July 2011
Additional Resources
About F5 Networks
F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV)
makes the connected world run better. F5 helps organizations meet the
demands and embrace the opportunities that come with the relentless
growth of voice, data, and video traffic, mobile workers, and
applications—in the data center, the network, and the cloud. The world’s
largest businesses, service providers, government entities, and consumer
brands rely on F5’s intelligent services framework to deliver
and protect their applications and services while ensuring people stay
connected. Learn more at www.f5.com.
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Traffic Manager, LTM, WebAccelerator, WAN Optimization Manager, and
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