Enabling scalable and secure connectivity,
optimized service delivery, and profitable new services
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced today its focus areas at
Mobile World Congress (MWC), taking place in Barcelona, Spain from
March 2–5. At the event, F5 will demonstrate how its solution
portfolio helps service providers maximize the opportunities
created by exponential increases in connected devices,
applications, and broadband data usage.
With a projected 50 billion connected devices by 2020
(Cisco/Intel)—or seven devices for each person on the
planet—securing and managing the Internet of Things (IoT) will
become even more crucial. Operators will need to scale networks to
handle rapid growth of data traffic and corresponding signaling
traffic increases. They will also need to offer secure connectivity
to support new service and business models.
The F5 Synthesis™ architecture supports the service provider
ecosystem with carrier-grade solutions around intelligent traffic
management, Diameter and signaling traffic management, multi-layer
security, and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) for secure,
dynamic, and tight network control. These solutions enable
operators to evolve their networks cost-effectively, ensuring
optimized network services and enhanced Quality of Experience (QoE)
for subscribers—while still driving new revenues.
F5 is the only vendor to provide flexibility at the network,
control, and application levels, enabling deep service
customization that can be monetized.
F5 at MWC: Optimize Your Network. Monetize New Services.
Secure Every Layer.
Visit F5 in Hall 5, Booth G11 at Mobile World Congress.
Technology demonstrations will be available on demand at F5’s booth
throughout the event, with topics including:
- Network Functions Virtualization
– F5’s broad portfolio of virtual solutions support NFV
initiatives, with technologies such as Diameter signaling, DNS, and
carrier-class firewalls in field trials with tier-one carriers
worldwide.
- Multi-Layer and Multi-Domain
Security – F5 technologies ensure end-to-end security for
rapidly increasing threat vectors—for devices, the network, and
applications.
- Network Simplification – F5
offerings simplify and optimize network services for TCO reduction
and enhance user QoE. Widely deployed services by Cisco and
F5—demonstrated at Intel’s Hall 3, Booth D30 location at
MWC—illustrate how dynamic service chains can easily be constructed
using Network Services Headers (NSH).
- Simple, Secure Mobile App
Connectivity – F5 partners with Google™ to enable secure VPN
access for Android™ 5.0 (Lollipop), which can be applied to
specific apps or the entire work profile as part of Android for
Work. F5 also partners with market-leading Enterprise Mobility
Management (EMM) providers, including AirWatch® by VMware
(exhibiting at Mobile World Congress in Hall 3, Booth D10), to
enable seamless, automated VPN provisioning and secure, private
connectivity for mobile apps with differentiated access based on
dynamic, contextual policies.
- New Revenue-Generating Services
– Diameter, SIP, and DNS signaling solutions enable new revenue
streams, including Voice over LTE (VoLTE), WiFi Offloading, and LTE
Roaming.
Supporting Quotes
“NFV-enabled elastic network infrastructure is essential for
rapid services deployment and scaling on demand. NTT is pleased to
partner with F5 to deliver NFV-based solutions via F5’s
industry-leading virtual editions and NTT’s global
infrastructure.”
Dr. Masahisa Kawashima, VP, NTT i3
“For the Internet of Things to function and grow, it requires
the capabilities NFV provides to enable services that the IoT can
interact with. Partners like F5 are a critical part of the NFV
ecosystem that will make it possible for carriers to improve the
IoT experience for businesses and consumers.”
Werner Schaefer, VP, Network Functions Virtualization,
Hewlett-Packard
“Openness, programmability, and orchestration are key to
realizing NFV to improve service velocity. As a member of our
ecosystem, we are happy to partner with F5 to validate NFV
solutions and by leveraging F5’s intelligent traffic management and
dynamic security solutions that empower the Internet of
Things.”
Ron Haberman, VP/GM, CloudBand Business Unit, Alcatel-Lucent
“We look forward to showcasing AirWatch by VMware and F5’s joint
functionality at Mobile World Congress. Technology from AirWatch,
the leading EMM and mobile security provider, combines with F5’s
secure identity and access management to allow mutual customers to
enable seamless VPN provisioning and secure access per-app, without
user intervention. This can safeguard sensitive corporate data and
personal information, protecting devices, networks, applications,
and resources while increasing usability and productivity.”
Erik Frieberg, VP, End-User Computing, VMware
“In our view, F5 was the first in the industry to focus on NFV
for Layer 4 through Layer 7 services across the data, signaling,
and application planes—with the aim of helping providers with
flexible scaling and rapid service introductions.”
Michael Howard, Principal Analyst, IHS-Infonetics Research
“Mobile operators are evolving to support the staggering number
of devices that will eventually be connected to the Internet of
Things, and to handle expanding data consumption demands. At the
same time, they are transforming to more virtualized,
software-driven, and cloud-based infrastructures to improve on
efficiency, scale, and pace of innovation. F5 has innovated to help
operators by embracing virtualization for the key elements of its
portfolio, and by enabling its solutions across a wide range of
service automation frameworks. F5 is proving it can be an enabler
of application delivery in a broad array of operator
environments.”
Paul Parker-Johnson, Practice Lead, Cloud and Virtual System
Infrastructures, ACG Research
“F5’s ‘optimize, secure, and monetize’ approach and solutions
address service providers’ multi-technology, multi-vendor network
complexity challenges through: interoperability with different
network protocols and signaling, context-aware capabilities and
traffic management, and an end-to-end secure service delivery
architecture. The carrier-grade NFV versions of its solutions
bolster its support for service providers moving toward a
virtualized next-generation network.”
Glen Ragoonanan, Principal Analyst, Analysys Mason
“New mobility ecosystems characterized by network-connected
electronic devices, the rise of the Internet of Things, and the
industry shift towards Network Functions Virtualization further
complicate the LTE security landscape. F5’s mission is to secure
devices, users, networks, and applications in these advanced
scenarios.”
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula, VP, Service Provider and Cloud Solutions,
F5
Availability
The F5 solutions referenced in this announcement are available
today. Contact your local F5 sales office for availability in
specific countries.
Additional Resources
- Service Provider Solutions – F5
Technologies
- Securing the Internet of Things
Revolution – DevCentral Blog Post
- NFV: Moving from Vision to
Operationalization – DevCentral Blog Post
- The Internet of Things-Ready
Infrastructure – White Paper
- Addressing Security Challenges with LTE
– Infographic
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world.
F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center,
telecommunications, and software defined networking (SDN)
deployments to successfully deliver applications and services to
anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions broaden the reach of IT
through an open, extensible framework and a rich partner ecosystem
of leading technology and orchestration vendors. This approach lets
customers pursue the infrastructure model that best fits their
needs over time. The world’s largest businesses, service providers,
government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead
of cloud, security, and mobility trends. For more information, go
to f5.com.
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and technologies.
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