To expand on its existing strengths, 3Com is announcing alliances with F5 for load balancing; Inktomi for Web-caching; and Sonic Wall for firewall capabilities. The opposite side of the coin is an expansion of its offerings to service providers.
The customers don't always need more bandwidth, maybe they just need a new router, or to retune the network, or a new service level agreement. This use of data allows the problem to be identified, and it shows the client where they should be...
IPSec VPNs, more suited to site-to-site data transfer using extranets and intranets, are authenticated and decrypted by customer premises equipment (CPE) at either end of the transaction. According to Frost & Sullivan, the lower barriers to entry...
Premium IP VPN service is provided over a private IP network supported by Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), which effectively prioritises traffic in accordance with application type. Those that 'tunnel' across the public internet rely on...
In doing so, an F5 solution can be used for load balancing, inspecting the packets then distributing them across servers in an appropriate manner (the box can even take a feed from the servers, to support its decision making).
One of the products highlighted by Moss was the Citrix Netscaler, which is a load balancing appliance that is capable of managing network traffic on the application layer. We have got F5's in the lab," adding that should F5 boost the BIG-IP's...