The document discusses F5 Networks solutions for application delivery networking, including an overview of the F5 ADN and how it provides application acceleration, load balancing, security and other capabilities. Use cases are presented showing how the F5 ADN improves performance and user experience. The presentation also highlights various F5 products and their capabilities for optimizing application delivery.
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IT Challenge
g
Applications and networks behave independently
Many network functions require high degrees of
manual intervention
Distributed architectures and web services increase
complexity
Historically,
Hi t i ll applications and protocols f
li ti d t l for
communicating with network devices inflexible at best
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A Shift Toward Innovation
Securing assets
Managing systems
Reducing costs
Developing new apps, services, SOA
Virtualization
Enabling interop
Maintaining legacy apps
Ensuring compliance
Driving people productivity
Enabling Mobility
80% 20%
MAINTENANCE NEW INNOVATION
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What is ADN?
Data Center
Users
Private Users Application Microsoft
From Where: From What: SAP
LAN
Home
PC
Laptop Delivery Oracle
Home PC IBM
Branch / WAN
Road / WAN
PDA Network BEA
Kiosk
Mobile
HTTP /HTML SIP
/HTML, SIP,
Public Users RTP, SRTP, RTCP,
From Who: From What:
PC
SMTP, FTP, SFTP,
Customers
Partners Laptop RTSP, SQL, CIFS,
Suppliers Home PC MAPI, IIOP, SOAP,
, , ,
PDA
Consultants Kiosk XML etc…
Mobile
F5 ensures applications running over the network are always
secure, fast and available without Code Change
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Why F5?
Data Center
Application Layers 4-7 Applications
Remote Access
Network Layers 1-3
y
Rate Shaping
Content Acceleration
DoS Protection
ROUTERS
SSL Acceleration
Load Balancing
WAN Optimization
SWITCHES Application Security
• iRules
Traffic Compression
• iControl
Caching
Connection
FIREWALLS Optimization
Intelligent Clients
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BIG-IP WebAccelerator
Primary Data Center
www.web.com
Real-time
Monitors
spo ts eb co
sports.web.com
BIG-IP LTM
+ WebAccelerator
webpromo com
webpromo.com Web Servers
Solution
Simplified d t
Si lifi d and streamlined
li d Pre-defined
Pre defined
Acceleration
Fix and accelerate web applications Policies
Reduce bandwidth utilization
Offload Server processing
Mitigate the effects of network latency
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Improving User Experience
App portal
Page Load
g response time
Time
Page Delivery Time Page Delivery Time
Internet or WAN
75%
75%
70%
60%
Client Browser Server
Infrastructure
Server Offload
• Compression
• Dynamic Caching
• Content Spooling
• OneConnect
• Rate Shaping
• Connection limit
• Load balancing
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Improving User Experience
App portal
Page Load
g response time
Time
Page Delivery Time Page Delivery Time
Internet WAN
60%
40%
Client Browser Server
Infrastructure
Network Acceleration Server Offload
• Compression • Compression
• Dynamic Caching • Dynamic Caching
• TCP Express •C t tS
Content Spooling
li
• OneConnect
• Rate Shaping
• Connection limit
• Load balancing
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Improving User Experience
App portal
Page Load
g response time
Time
Page Delivery Time Page Delivery Time
Internet WAN
35%
25%
Client Browser Server
Infrastructure
Network Acceleration Server Offload
• Compression • Compression
• Dynamic Caching • Dynamic Caching
• TCP Express •CContent S
Spooling
li
• Differential Compression • OneConnect
• QoS • Rate Shaping
• Security/authentication • Connection limit
• Load balancing
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Improving User Experience
App portal
Page Load
g response time
Time
Page Delivery Time Page Delivery Time
Internet WAN
10%
10%
Client Browser Server
Infrastructure
Application Acceleration Network Acceleration Server Offload
• IBR (Dynamic Content Control) • Compression • Compression
• Multi-Connect • Dynamic Caching • Dynamic Caching
• Dynamic Linearization • TCP Express • Content Spooling
• Dynamic Caching • Differential Compression • OneConnect
• Dynamic Compression • QoS • Rate Shaping
• SSL Acceleration • Security/authentication • Connection limit
• Load balancing
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DC: Reduce App Cost with
pp
Application Delivery Controller
95% Fewer
33%
Connections Reduction in
•HW Servers
114.8 5 •SW Licenses
Million
Million •Op Mgmt.
MSN reduced
a tremendous
Less Network
1.87
1 87
amount of DC
Utilization
66%
Terabyte Cost 621 Reduction in
Gigabytes
Bandwidth
Faster End-to-End
Page Load Time
200%
Faster
3 1
Seconds Seconds
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iRule allows System Customization
without any Application Code Change
Challenge
1. Database replication
2. User experience
Solution
1. Read from East Coast sent
to local app/DB
pp
2. Write request sent to
remote app/DB
3. iRule checks to see if data
is replicated yet
Benefits
1. Decrease latency
2. Provide fault tolerance
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File Virtualization – why is it matter?
IT Budget Constraints
g Volume of Data Growing
g
Total Enterprise Disk Storage Systems
(Exabytes) Exabytes Shipped
IDC: Worldwide Network Controller and Block-Level Storage Virtualization
2008–2012 Forecast: A Key Component in Building the Virtual Datacenter,
April 2008
p
IT is seeking cost and efficiency improvements
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The Key to Managing Storage Growth
BEFORE
User / application access tightly
coupled to physical file storage
– Inflexible: change is disruptive
– Complex: multiple mappings to
heterogeneous storage devices
– Inefficient: low aggregate
utilization
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The Key to Managing Storage Growth
BEFORE AFTER
User / application access tightly File access decoupled from
coupled to physical file storage physical storage location
– Inflexible: change is disruptive – Flexible: change is non-
– Complex: multiple mappings to disruptive
heterogeneous storage devices – Simple: single mapping to
– Inefficient: low aggregate unified storage pool
utilization – Efficient: maximize utilization
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Fixed Telecommunication network
P
Provider Li t
id List
China Telecom
– 223M Subsc be s
3 Subscribers
– 300+ Big-ip, 3DNS, FP
– Mobile License in the Near
Future
– Huge Number Forecast in
FY2008
China Netcom
– 114.93M Subscribers
– 200+ Big-ip , FP
– Mobile License in the Near
Future
– Huge Number Forecast in
FY2008
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Mobile Telecommunication network
P
Provider Li t
id List
China Mobile
– No.1 Carrier world wide
– 325M
325M+ Subscribers
– 2000+ F5 boxes
– TD-CDMA Start to Deploy
China Unicom
– 142.36M Subscribers
– 100+ Big-ip
– Maybe Merged into CTC and CNC
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Highly Available 24x7 Banking Infrastructure
HSBC UK
P2G DCs
HSBC IT HSBC Paris,
Vancouver, BC France
HSBC
NYC & Chicago
SABB HSBC HK
Riyadh P2G DC
HSBC
Mexico City
Australia
Sydney
One of the World’s Largest Bank by Market Capitalization
Major Applications:
1. Internet Banking
2. Corporate IT
3. PeopleSoft HR Portal
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DC: Consolidation by Virtualization
Web Server
Cell
C ll
NetApp
alization
alization
App. Server
PC - Home
Server, Storage,
, g , Web Server
rtualization
n
Data Cent & Link Pool Virtua
rtualization
n
Applicatio Server Pool Virtua
Network and DC Web Server
App. Server
EMC
Consolidation
P
P
File Storag Pool Vir
Web Serve Pool Vir
Windows file
Remote - WAN Web Server storage
App. Server
ge
ter
er
Web Server on Windows file
PC - LAN
storage
App. Server
Web Server
WLAN
GTM
LTM LTM ARX
& LC
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F5 Networks: Integrated
Application Delivery Networking Architecture
International
Data Center
Enterprise Manager /
ControlPoint
Edge Gateway (EGW)
pplications
A & torage
S
sers
U WAN
Local
L l Global
Gl b lBIG-IP A App Access
A BIG-IP Local b
Web
W
Optimizat
Traffic
BIG-IP Traffic Link Security Policy Traffic
Accelerati BIG-IP
ion ARX
Manager Manager
Global Manager
Controller Manager
Manager on Application
FirePass Manager File/Data
(LTM)Traffic (GTM) (ASM) (APM) (WA) Security
SSL VPN (WOM) Virtualization
Manager BIG-IP Web Manager
WANJet ARX
Accelerator
TMOS (iRule and iControl)
iControl
BIG‐IP Hardware
TMOS v10.x
v10 x
Business Goal: Achieve these objectives in the most operationally
efficient manner
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Platform Performance for LTM
BIG-IP
G BIG-IP
G BIG-IP
G BIG-IP
G BIG-IP
G VIPRION
1600 3600 3900 6900 8900 With 4 blades
Max. throughput 1 Gbps 2 Gbps 4 Gbps 6 Gbps 12 Gbps 40 Gbps
Layer 4
60,000 115,000 175,000 220,000 400,000 1 Million
Connections/sec
Layer 7
100,000 135,000 400,000 600,000 1,200,000 3,200,000
Requests/sec (inf-inf)
(inf inf)
Max. conc. conn. 4 Million 4 Million 8 Million 8 Million 16 Million 32 Million
Max. SSL TPS 5,000 10,000 15,000 25,000 58,000 200,000
Max. SSL Bulk 1 Gbps 1.5 Gbps 3.8 Gbps 4 Gbps 9.6 Gbps 36 Gbps
Max. SSL conc.
1 Million 1 Million 1 Million 2 Million 4 Million 8 Million
conn.
Max. compression 1 Gbps 1 Gbps 3.8 Gbps 5 Gbps 8 Gbps 16 Gbps
Switch backplane 14 Gbps 24 Gbps 34 Gbps 68 Gbps 112 Gbps 368 Gbps
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Don t
Don’t Take Our Word for It
3rd party functionality report
On The GUIs…
On th
O the configurability
fi bilit
of Rate Shaping…
On the Architecture and
toolsets of iRules and iControl…
On the configurability
of Connection Management…
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Real-World Testing
Real World
Goal: Real world, open, honest, and
repeatable testing
– Markets had too many engineered and
isolated “hero statistics”
Most extensive testing to date
– E
Europe’s f
’ foremost independent
ti d d t
network testing facility
– 150 tests completed across all vendors
– Ixia and Spirent validated tests and
p
detailed methodology documentation
plus full configurations (126 pages)
Results
“BIG-IP 6800 emerged comfortably ahead on all tests”
Demonstrated 2x–5x better performance across all major functions
p j
– L4, L7, SSL, compression, DoS protection, and mixed traffic tests
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Intergration With Major Applications
•AmberPoint Service Level Manager •Microsoft Live Communications Server
•BEA Systems WebLogic Server •Microsoft Mobile Information Server
•BorderWare MXtreme •Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007
•Check Point Software Technologies VPN-1/FireWall •Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003
•Citrix Systems MetaFrame •Microsoft Windows Terminal Services
•Coradiant TrueSight •Netegrity SiteMinder
•CoroSoft Director •Oracle 9iAS
•IBM Lotus Domino Web Access (iNotes)
IBM •Oracle 10g
•IBM WebSphere •Oracle E-Business Suite 11i
•Macromedia ColdFusion MX/JRun •Quest SharePlex
•Mercury Topaz •RLX Technologies Control Tower
•Microsoft Application Center •RSA Security SecurID
•Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Mi ft E h S •SAP
•Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 •Siebel Systems eBusiness Applications
•Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) •Symantec WholeSecurity Confidence Online Server
•Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server •Trend Micro InterScan
•webMethods Integration Platform
webMethods
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Organizations Worldwide Trust F5 to Keep Their Businesses Running
Including 9 out of 10 of the world’s top financial services firms and 60% of the Global 1000
Financial IT Telco/ISP Media Transport Other
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Professional Services
…provides maintenance
p support,
pp ,
consulting services and training on F5
technology ensuring technical problems are
addressed effectively, implementations executed
y p
with ease and technical knowledge shared
effectively cumulating in greater ROI for our
partners and customers by making our services
expertise, systems and infrastructure available to
those who subscribe to our offerings
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The Customer & Professional Services
Onsite Consulting
Services Services
F5
Professional
P f i l
Services
Training Maintenance
Services Services
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Maintenance Services
Maintenance Toll-Free Supports
Support
S t Telephone
T l h Software and
S ft d
Contracts Numbers Hardware
7x24 Advisory
Support,
g
Full management
Hardware
H d Product
P d t
and Technical
replacement and Development
Escalation
problem
resolution
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Maintenance Support
Standard Premium
Service Service
• 8x5 Monday to Friday • 24x7
• Software Upgrades • Software Upgrades
• Major • Major
• Minor • Minor
• HotFixes • HotFixes
• Access to AskF5 • Access to AskF5
• Access to WebSupport • Access to WebSupport
• Access to Phone • Access to Phone
Support Support
• iRules review • iRules Support
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RAPID-RMA
Advance
RAPID-RMA
RAPID RMA
Replacement
Sparing Local
(included with
Warehousing all Maintenance)
Service Service Service
• Not all models covered • One Outage • One Outage
• Often rely on F5 Sales • Identical swap • Identical swap
to loan appliances • 21 days to return • Appliance shipped from
• Customer has two or ‘broken appliance’ USA, expect 4-10
more outages business days
• Next Business Day • 21 days to return
• 4hour 24x7 ‘broken appliance’
Available Available
• Singapore • All Countries
• Thailand • Is included as part of
• Malaysia TBD F5 Maintenance
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Training Services
Authorised
Onsite customer
Training Centres
training available
t i i il bl
across Asia Pacific
Training courses
Basic and
aligned to
Advanced F5
technical
Portfolio Training
P tf li T i i
certification
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Training Courses
Application
Network Technical
Development &
Operations Support Teams
Support Teams
Offerings LTM Offerings
• Operating BIG-IP • Essentials • WebAccelerator for
• Operating Viprion • Advanced Application Teams
• Troubleshooting
• Essentials Coming in 2010
• Troubleshooting Other • ASM for Application
• GTM • GTM Teams
• ASM
• WebAccelerator
• Architecture
Coming in 2010
• Server Virtualisation
with BIG-IP
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F5 ADN Summary
F5 is the market leader in Application Delivery
Networking for the past 7 consecutive years.
9 out of 10 of the world’s top Telco/Financial and
Government firms trust F5 solutions
F5 ADN architecture is focused on FAST, SECURE &
AVAILABLE
End-to-
End-to-End support (product -> training/certification ->
support )