F5's BIG-IP(R) SIP Load Balancing Solution Takes Internet Telephony's Product of the Year Award.Premier VoIP/IP Telephony Publication Honors BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager's SIP Solution SEATTLE -- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : FFIV FFIV Final Fantasy Four (video game) ), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its BIG-IP[R] SIP (Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. ) Load Balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them Solution has won Internet Telephony's Product of the Year Award, recognizing the greatest achievements in the advancement of VoIP and IP telecommunications technologies on the basis of evident vision, leadership, and attention to detail. The F5 product awarded is a specific configuration of F5's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM LTM abbr. long-term memory ). BIG-IP LTM provides the necessary framework to achieve total scalability, availability, and reliability in a SIP environment. The solution is also available on a NEBS Level 3 certified platform to meet the needs of carrier grade telephony. "Internet Telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. is proud to bestow F5 with a 2006 Product of the Year Award," said Rich Tehrani, TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center President and Editor-in-Chief of Internet Telephony. "Each year, our magazine recognizes companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. F5 has proven its commitment to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace." A key differentiator for the BIG-IP product is its integration with F5's TMOS TMOS TSAT (Transformational Satellite Communications System) Mission Operations System TMOS Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter (Uni-Pixel Displays, Inc. [TM] architecture, which delivers industry leading full proxy performance and unprecedented application networking intelligence. Because of this integration, the solution can take advantage of F5's unique application-fluent scripting language, iRules[TM]. With a full SIP message header parser A routine that analyzes a continuous flow of text-based input and breaks it into its constituent parts. See parse. (language) parser - An algorithm or program to determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some language. built in, the BIG-IP solution can access SIP content using iRules. And iRules can be used for custom persistence and protocol modification, adding immense versatility and scalability to telephony environments. "SIP load balancing is critically important for successful, scalable VoIP telephony environments, and F5 is pleased to be at the forefront of the industry's offerings," said Jason Needham, Director of Product Management at F5. "Awards like this confirm we are on course in supporting the demanding and unique needs of the Telco market." A full list of Product of the Year winners is published in the February 2007 issue of Internet Telephony. About the BIG-IP SIP Load Balancing Solution The BIG-IP SIP Load Balancing Solution provides high scalability, availability, and reliability to the SIP Proxy, Session Border Controller A Session Border Controller is a device used in some VoIP networks to exert control over the signaling and usually also the media streams involved in setting up, conducting, and tearing down calls. , media servers and many other SIP devices. By performing deep packet inspection Analyzing network traffic to discover the type of application that sent the data. In order to prioritize traffic or filter out unwanted data, deep packet inspection can differentiate data, such as video, audio, chat, voice over IP (VoIP), e-mail and Web. , it can distribute and balance SIP and RTP (1) (Rapid Transport Protocol) The protocol used in IBM's High Performance Routing (HPR) system. (2) (Realtime Transport Protocol) An IP protocol that supports real time transmission of voice and video. traffic among multiple SIP devices so that service availability is guaranteed even under high call volumes. In addition, the solution can perform advanced health checks on the SIP devices, routing SIP clients away from unstable or unreliable devices and providing increased reliability to existing SIP solutions. About Internet Telephony[R] Magazine Since the first issue in February of 1998, Internet Telephony is the only magazine dedicated to providing information in IP communications technologies. Internet Telephony provides readers with the best information necessary to learn about and purchase the equipment, software, and services. Internet Telephony offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Miercom. The only BPA-audited publication that's 100% dedicated to providing the highest quality content for the IP communications market, Internet Telephony has 55,000 dedicated readers. For more information about TMC and Internet Telephony, please visit www.tmcnet.com. About F5 Networks F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast and available for everyone, helping organizations get the most out of their investment. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications, F5 optimizes applications and allows them to work faster and consume fewer resources. F5's extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimization, protects the application and the network, and delivers application reliability--all on one universal platform. Over 10,000 organizations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide. For more information, go to www.f5.com. This press release may contain forward looking statements relating to future events or future financial performance that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts", "potential" or "continue" or the negative of such terms or comparable terms. These statements are only predictions and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these statements based upon a number of factors including those identified in the Company's filings with the SEC. |
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