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F5 set to launch new offerings

To roll out revved up products in a series of launches through the next six months

Pratima Harigunani

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

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PUNE, INDIA: Application Delivery Networking major F5 Networks is set to come out with a slew of new as well as improved offerings in the next few months.

These offerings would include both products and solutions and also scaling up of performmance of applications. Harvinder Singh, country manager - India, F5 Networks, said that a lot of development is happening and the same would be announced in coming days.

"The first set of announcement will happen at the end of this month and later would follow in October and November. This would entail augmenting performance much more while reducing prices, i.e. better performance at better prices," he said.

Without divulging much, he said that the roll-outs would be in line with the success received with a product rolled out three months back, VIPRION which is a bladed system that consolidates networking and security functionality, processing power, load balancing, and application delivery service virtualization into a shared, scalable chassis.

"Today, it is an industry benchmark and enables truly on-demand applications. In a full-blown chassis, it has achieved 36 giga bits levels of throughput and there is no comparable product to it. We are working on the same lines of throughput, with better prices for our other product models," he said.

Pointing to recent trends Singh views consolidation as the next opportunity, as companies are consolidating their servers at the back-end but the people resources are spreading out, which poses the challenge of making the applications avaialable smoothly to the user.

The company has big plans for India having grown about 145 per cent last year and hoping for three-digit growth in the next few years here. According to last count, China contributes 40 per cent of APAC revenue for F5. "We have big plans for India and see huge potential here," Singh said.

F5 makes solutions that claim faster and secure avaialability of applications by adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications and optimize the data storage layer.

Its flagship product is the BIG-IP network appliance and it is amongst the leading pack of players as per Gartner in the market where other competitors include Cisco Systems, Citrix Systems, Barracuda Networks, Nortel, Foundry Networks, Astrocom, Radware, Coyote Point Systems, KEMP Technologies, and Zeus Technology.

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Anand said on 7/15/2008 12:01:08 AM:
What about Array Networks ??

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