F5 Networks’ New Professional Services Offering Helps Customers Seamlessly Transition to IPv6

Published on Monday, 03 October 2011 07:06 Written by TradersHuddle Staff

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F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced its new IPv6 Solution Services offering. This Professional Services offering will help organizations address their need to establish a presence on the IPv6 Internet as new IPv6-only devices flood the market and the available supply of IPv4 addresses dwindles. F5 has also announced that its BIG-IP^® solutions are deployed in the Network Operations Center (NOC) at Interop New York, happening October 3‒7 at the Javits Convention Center. These solutions will provide key application and IPv6 connectivity in support of Interop vendors and attendees.

Every device that connects to the Internet must have an Internet Protocol (IP) address, but the current protocol version, IPv4, doesn’t have the address capacity to meet today’s explosive demand in Internet-connected devices. IPv6 does, but because it’s incompatible with IPv4, organizations worldwide must inevitably transition to or provide support for IPv6 to ensure that their web-based services and applications are available to the broadest range of Internet users.

“We’re seeing many enterprises struggle to transition their public-facing websites to IPv6 networks, deliver reliable services for new IPv6 client devices, comply with stringent new regulatory requirements, and adjust to the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses,” said Ian Jones, VP of Global Professional Services Consulting at F5. “Many customers don’t feel they have enough in-house knowledge and understanding of IPv6 on their own network infrastructures to attempt an IPv6 deployment without outside assistance. Our new Professional Services offering for IPv6 provides the support and best practice guidance customers need to make these transitions as easy as possible—whatever their unique requirements are.”

F5^® BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager^™ (LTM^®) provides customers a clear and seamless method for staging their migration to IPv6 without making wholesale network and application upgrades all at once. F5’s new IPv6 Solution Services are designed to support a range of IPv6 initiatives, whether customers want to transition internal infrastructure from IPv4 to IPv6, support dual stack implementations, or provide continued support for legacy IPv4 applications. Each IPv6 Professional Services engagement includes an architecture review, base connectivity, BIG-IP IPv6 gateway configuration, and knowledge transfer.

The announcement of F5’s IPv6 Solution Services offering coincides with the company’s participation in the Network Operations Center (NOC) at Interop New York 2011. As it did for Interop’s Las Vegas event earlier this year, F5 is providing NAT64 and DNS64 translation services, making it possible for IPv6-only clients to seamlessly connect to domains on both the IPv4 and IPv6 Internet networks. F5 is also providing enhanced acceleration services for Interop’s www.interop.com website, as well as other essential networking services to ensure the global availability and functionality of critical system services for Interop vendors and attendees.

“In support of our NOC infrastructure for Interop New York 2011, we’re pleased to have F5 provide an array of IPv6 and intelligent traffic management solutions,” said Lenny Heymann, Interop General Manager. “IPv6 migration strategies are top of mind for many of our attendees, so the availability of F5’s IPv6 Solution Services offering is timely. We appreciate and applaud all participating InteropNet vendors, including F5, for helping us deliver the best possible experience for both attendees and exhibitors.”

Availability

F5’s IPv6 Solution Services offering for BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager deployments is available today for purchase through F5 and the global F5 partner network. For more information on F5’s Professional Services offerings, please visit www.f5.com/services/professional-services.

F5 at Interop New York

Interested in learning about the future of physical appliances? Alan Murphy, Senior Technical Marketing Manager at F5, will participate in a panel discussion addressing this question on Thursday, October 6 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. ET.

Additional Resources

• IPv6 Solution Services Offering – Information Page
• Transition Now to the IPv6 World – F5 Professional Services Datasheet
• F5 in the Interop New York 2011 Network Operations Center – Website
• F5 Makes IPv6 Connectivity a Reality for Interop Las Vegas Attendees – Case Study
• F5’s Participation in World IPv6 Day – Information Page
• F5 DevCentral World IPv6 Day Live – Podcast

About Interop^®

Interop^® drives the adoption of technology, providing knowledge and insight to help IT and corporate decision-makers achieve business success. Part of UBM TechWeb’s family of global brands, Interop is the leading business technology event series. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique InteropNet program, Interop provides the forum for the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. For more information about these events, visit www.interop.com.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5 solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 solutions give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business needs, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

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