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F5 Networks Secures IoT and 5G Networks with Availability of Standalone Carrier-Class Firewall
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:
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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.
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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 (News - Alert).
"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
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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