F5 to bring application-layer intelligence to SDN services for software defined data centers
“F5’s vision is to enable application-layer SDN services for software
defined data centers, providing our customers with unprecedented
automation, orchestration, and control,” said
Critical to the success of SDN architectures are security, acceleration, optimization, and intelligent traffic management services at the application layer. Application-layer services will be vital to meet customers’ expectations of flexibility, scale, and performance, and to provide significant competitive advantages. The LineRate acquisition aligns with F5’s vision for application control plane architecture and goal of delivering application-layer SDN services to bring superior agility, application intelligence, and programmability to software defined data centers.
LineRate Systems, based near
“In order to reap the benefits of software defined data centers,
programmable, scalable network services must be present throughout the
entire network stack—up to the application layer,” said
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition is not expected to have a material impact on the company’s operating results.
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