F5 Networks’ products will be integrated in the Indigo product and solution portfolio, making a scalable and highly available network possible Amersfoort and San Francisco, CA, October 18, 2002. - F5 Networks Benelux, the leading provider of Internet Traffic Management (ITM) products, announced that they entered into a new partnership agreement with Indigo Software. The resulting offering will combine the F5 load balancing solution with Indigo SIP-based applications to produce a stalwart and readily available product, which unfailingly delivers multimedia content for enterprise communications.
"Traffic management is a key component of Indigo's vision of enabling secure and trusted communications solutions. Our combined technologies allow increased performance and maximize our customers' return on their technology investment", said Marijke van Remortel, Director Strategic Accounts at Indigo Software. "We're delighted to have a genuine technology leader like F5 Networks among our key partners, and we look forward to collaborating to deliver real value to our customers".
F5 Networks' BIG-IP solution intelligently manages and directs traffic for all IP-based applications, ensuring high availability by directing traffic to the resource or service best able to handle the request. Considered the "glue" of a SIP-enabled network, the BIG-IP device front-ends all redundant mission-critical elements of a SIP origination and termination solution: beginning at the firewall, flowing through the proxies and route engines, and all the way back to the application servers. It ensures high availability and reliability of SIP-based services. By intelligently distributing SIP traffic among multiple SIP proxy servers, the BIG-IP product enhances the performance and availability of the solution, providing carrier-class uptime (five-nines) and reliability. It provides carrier-grade performance and effectively scales SIP traffic by intercepting, inspecting, transforming, and directing traffic flowing through SIP proxy servers.
“The fact that F5 is the only ITM company that can direct and manage SIP-based traffic is yet another proof point of our market leading innovation and technology leadership," said Adri Zandee, Technical Manager at F5 Networks Benelux. "We're very enthusiastic about the joint solution and excited about our partnership with Indigo Software, who is clearly a leader in SIP-based solutions.
The Indigo products are aimed at delivering foolproof IP communication between end-points, while F5’s BIG-IP products are crucial to ensuring absolute reliability and performance, even during times of peak traffic. Applications based on Indigo’s technology such as event notification and corporate instant messaging are task intensive. In most cases, the information delivered by these servers is urgent and volatile, pushing servers to their limits. Should the server suffer from overload, the information would be lost. The F5 Networks and Indigo Software technology alliance puts a robust product in the hands of every corporation by ensuring superior performance of the servers while maximizing their potential and sustaining their availability. It ensures that all information is delivered without fail in order to guarantee the highest Quality of Service customers are seeking.
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About Indigo Software
With operations in both the US and Europe, Indigo Software is a forward-thinking software developer, architecting new Internet communications software toolkits for a broad range of application developers, integrators and communications ASPs. Capitalizing on its award-winning, expandable communications software framework, Indigo provides a unique ensemble of Internet-infrastructure software components based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and other Internet-genuine technologies sharing SIP's endowments. Devising unprecedented communications software tools for converged networks, Indigo gives an ever-expanding service providers market the power to transform the experience of integrated communications for a generation of customers with Internet savvy. For more information, visit www.indigosw.com
About F5 Networks
F5 Networks is the leader in Internet Traffic Management (ITM) and delivers application aware networks through its open Internet Control Architecture. F5 features the industry's leading set of integrated products and services that manage, control and optimize Internet traffic and content. Our solutions automatically and intelligently deliver the best possible Internet performance and availability for service providers, enterprises and e-businesses. Our products remove bandwidth congestion and optimize the availability and speed of mission-critical Internet servers and applications, including web publishing, content delivery, e-commerce, caching, firewalls and more. Our solutions are widely deployed in large enterprises, the top service providers, financial institutions, government agencies, healthcare, and portals throughout the world. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and has offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. F5 Networks is located on the web at www.f5.com
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