CISCO LIVE – F5
Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV) today announced that its Traffix™
Signaling Delivery Controller™ (SDC™) has
successfully achieved Cisco compatibility certification with Cisco
Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager. The Internet of Everything
(IoE) continues to bring together people, processes, data, and things to
enhance the relevancy of network connections. As a member of the Cisco®
Solution Partner Program, F5 is able to quickly create and deploy
solutions to enhance the capabilities, performance, and management of
the network to capture value in the IoE.
The F5 Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller (SDC) offers intelligent
context-aware Diameter
routing, load
balancing, and interworking
on one platform for the cost-effective and rapid rollout of LTE networks
and services. It manages Diameter signaling messages that enable data
use in LTE and 3G networks to ensure consistent network reliability and
performance with maximum scale. Operators deploying the SDC also benefit
from advanced monitoring, visualization, and troubleshooting
capabilities that improve failover management and overload control,
protecting networks from signaling surges (which tend to lead to service
outages). The SDC component-based architecture is optimized for Software
Defined Networking (SDN) and Network
Functions Virtualization (NFV) architectures, including the Cisco
UCS platform for virtualized systems.
“F5’s efforts with Cisco are focused on compelling performance
advantages for customers deploying our solutions together,” said Ben
Volkow, VP of Product Development at F5. “Embedding the Traffix SDC
within Cisco’s UCS Manager delivers a virtualized signaling platform for
service providers, and enables their networks to benefit from the
savings of elastic and open architecture. This achievement of a core
network virtualized solution requires a deep understanding of Diameter
signaling management in the context of service providers’ needs to
reduce time-to-market and operating expenses.”
The Cisco Solution Partner Program, part of the Cisco Partner Ecosystem,
unites Cisco with third-party independent hardware and software vendors
to deliver integrated solutions to joint customers. As a Solution
Partner, F5 offers complementary product offerings and has started to
collaborate with Cisco to meet the needs of joint customers. For more
information on F5’s Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller
interoperability with Cisco Unified Computing System Manager, go to https://marketplace.cisco.com/catalog/products/5953.
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV)
provides solutions for an application world. F5 helps organizations
seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and software defined networking
(SDN) deployments to successfully deliver applications 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 data center 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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F5, Traffix, Signaling Delivery Controller, and SDC are trademarks or
service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All
other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
*Compatibility certification via Interoperability Verification Testing
and Cisco Validated Design is designed to simulate typical customer
configurations and does not replace the need for on-site testing and
interoperability validation in conjunction with actual implementation.
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