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F5 BIG-IP Case Study:

Case Study: Medium Enterprise Telecommunications Services Company

Challenges

Addressed the following challenges with their Microsoft applications and technologies:
- Security risks
- Application downtime

Environment

Deployed the following F5 solutions with Microsoft applications and technologies:
- BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
The following Microsoft applications and technologies are used with their F5 BIG-IP:
- Microsoft Windows Server
- 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
Reduced CAPEX by between 20% and 40% 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:
- Improved application performance
- Enhanced application security
- High availability
- Consolidation (reduced hardware and facilities)
- Improved business continuity and disaster recovery
Rated F5 a 9 out of 10 when asked to recommend F5 to an IT peer responsible for Microsoft applications and technologies.

Source:

TechValidate Survey of a Medium Enterprise Telecommunications Services Company

TVID: F44-528-772

Case Study Details

Status:	Validated
Validated On:	Dec 09, 2009
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