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Case Study: Large Enterprise Telecommunications Services Company

Challenges

Addressed the following challenges with their Microsoft applications and technologies:
- Poor end-user experience
- Security risks
- Application downtime
- Complexity deploying and managing Microsoft applications and technologies

Environment

Deployed the following F5 solutions with Microsoft applications and technologies:
- BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
- FirePass SSL-VPN
- Enterprise Manager
The following Microsoft applications and technologies are used with their F5 BIG-IP:
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- Microsoft Outlook Web Access
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft Windows Server, Internet Information Services (IIS)

Benefits

Consider the following F5 BIG-IP features important to their Microsoft technologies deployment:
- Local load balancing methods
- SSL offload
- IRules
- Link load balancing
Reduced CAPEX by between 40% and 60% for their Microsoft environment.
Reduced operating expenditure (OPEX) by between 40% and 60% for their Microsoft environment.
Gained the following benefits by deploying F5 BIG-IP solutions with Microsoft applications and technologies:
- Better end-user experience
- Improved application performance
- Enhanced application security
- High availability
- Consolidation (reduced hardware and facilities)
- Improved business continuity and disaster recovery
Rated F5 a 10 out of 10 when asked to recommend F5 to an IT peer responsible for Microsoft applications and technologies.

Testimonials

“The F5 BIG-IP provides a true high availability solution for applications and servers. It also provides incredible insight into what certain applications are actually doing, when a lot of application servers are not able to capture this.”

Source:

TechValidate Survey of a Large Enterprise Telecommunications Services Company

TVID: 4D3-C26-196

Case Study Details

Status:	Validated
Validated On:	Oct 27, 2009
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