F5 Networks Secures IoT and 5G Networks with Availability of Standalone Carrier-Class Firewall
June 28 2016 - 9:00PM
Business Wire
F5 firewall solution to protect service
provider networks at the lowest TCO, while enabling them to
future-proof their networks as they transition from 4G to 5G and
NFV
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced at Mobile
World Congress Shanghai the availability of its high performance
and scalable carrier-class firewall solution focused on delivering
end-to-end security across service provider networks. The
standalone carrier-class firewall supports up to 1.2 billion
concurrent connections and over 20 million connections per second.
Today’s announcement is aligned with F5’s commitment to expand its
portfolio of dedicated security offerings. F5’s carrier-class
firewall is designed to address security concerns around the growth
of the Internet of Things (IoT), migration to 5G and NFV networks,
as well as increased security vulnerabilities affecting devices,
networks, and applications.
F5 delivers:
- Comprehensive and integrated
portfolio of security solutions
The core networks of service providers face threats from
multiple points—devices, networks, applications—while network
attacks also impact the DNS, control plane, and signalling
(including SIP and Diameter). F5’s consolidated portfolio of L4–L7
services, including the integration of CGNAT, provides end-to-end
security and delivers a multi-layered solution to protect the
application, control plane, and data plane against APTs and DDoS
attacks. This enables service providers to protect their brand and
retain customers by improving Quality of Experience for their
subscribers while future-proofing their networks as they evolve
their network architectures.
- Massive scale and performance with
lowest total cost of ownership
5G networks have ultra-low latency characteristics to handle the
growth associated with IoT. To secure future networks, service
providers need to increase the agility, performance, and security
of the Gi LAN. F5 offers service providers powerful performance
solutions that can scale in concurrent connections and connection
per seconds (CPS) to support the requirements for 5G and IoT. A
recent study done by independent research firm ACG revealed F5’s
Carrier-Class Firewall (based on VIPRION® 4800) achieved up to 80
percent lower TCO than alternative offerings while providing 216
percent higher ROI.
Supporting Quotes
“Service providers today are responding to the exponential
growth of subscribers, data, devices, and the Internet of Things by
re-architecting their networks and making sure they can scale.
There are significant challenges when it comes to protecting the
security of these networks. F5 security solutions protect service
provider networks from attacks, enabling the security of
subscribers, devices, and core network elements such as the Gi LAN
and data centre,” said Mallik Tatipamula, Vice President for
Service Provider Solutions, F5 Networks.
“The relentless, rapid growth in number of users, devices, and
applications on mobile networks creates a need for operators’
security solutions to scale efficiently on a similar trajectory.
This is true on every plane of operation and in all application
areas. A central element in achieving these goals is the
carrier-class firewall in the Gi LAN. Firewall scaling on multiple
dimensions—number of concurrent sessions, connection setups per
second, and throughput—is critical. F5 has skilfully achieved a
balance of capabilities in its carrier-class firewall that delivers
superior performance on each of these important dimensions for the
Gi LAN with a compelling economic return,” said Paul
Parker-Johnson, Principal Analyst, ACG Research.
Availability
F5’s standalone Carrier-Class Firewall will be available in the
third quarter of calendar year 2016. Please contact a local F5
sales office for additional information and product
availability in specific countries.
Additional Information
- F5 Carrier-Class Network Firewall
- ACG Research Report: Delivering
Security Efficiently and at Scale for Tomorrow’s Mobile Apps
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world.
F5 helps organisations seamlessly scale cloud, data centre,
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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