F5 NETWORKS DELIVERS FIRST TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR SIP.F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV FFIV Final Fantasy Four (video game) ), a provider of Internet Traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. and Content Management (iTCM) products has announced that it is the first Internet traffic management vendor to support 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. ) and is the load-balancing / high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. solution provider of choice for dynamicsoft's carrier-grade Origination and Termination Solution (OATS). SIP is the new protocol that enables real-time messaging, voice, data and video and is the next-generation of Voice-Over-IP (VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a ). Microsoft's Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. will use SIP-based instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or (IM) and America Online, (AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) Inc. has indicated that it will adopt SIP for its IM services and for interoperability with other services. By intelligently distributing SIP traffic among multiple SIP proxy servers, BIG-IP enhances the performance and availability of dynamicsoft's solution, providing carrier-class uptime (99.999%) and reliability. F5 is uniquely positioned in this market to address and support the challenges that carriers and enterprises face in building SIP-based networks, thanks to the intelligent, market-leading Layer 7 capabilities built into its traffic management software. F5's BIG-IP solution provides carrier-grade performance and effectively scales SIP traffic through its unique ability to Intercept, Inspect, Transform and Direct traffic flowing through SIP proxy servers. As part of the dynamicsoft solution, BIG-IP will load-balance SIP traffic and provide application persistence based on the unique SIP caller ID to ensure application and transaction integrity. "Our partnership with F5 Networks is strategic for dynamicsoft," said Brian Allain, vice president of marketing at dynamicsoft, Inc. "Following extensive evaluation and testing, we have selected F5 to be our traffic management and load-balancing solutions partner because of their market and technology leadership. As a critical component of our dynamicsoft-Powered Origination and Termination Solution, F5 enables carriers to scale easily and cost-effectively, while delivering on the promise of 99.999% availability that is absolutely vital to carrier-class SIP networks." BIG-IP ensures application and call integrity by making sure that traffic persists to the correct destination and by providing session state fail-over in the event of failure on back-end proxies. Additionally, to ensure reliability and availability of SIP services, BIG-IP load balances dynamicsoft Route Engines and checks their health and availability before routing traffic. The market anticipates heavy volumes of SIP voice traffic, generated by the Windows Messenger features incorporated in the Microsoft Windows XP operating system (set to launch October 25, 2001). In recent reviews, Windows Messenger has been seen as a "killer app" because of its comprehensive unified and real-time messaging functions in an easy to use interface. As a result, adoption is expected to be rapid. SIP also provides a framework for developing an enriched mobile communications experience in the all-IP third generation (3G) era. It is becoming pervasive as the standard protocol in the 3G wireless world and with the advent of AOL's and Yahoo's standardization on SIP for messaging. Today, service providers (carriers) are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to tap into the tremendous market potential for terminating PC-based SIP voice traffic to the public switched telephone network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ). Carriers offering wholesale termination/origination services have the flexibility to support their customers with new business models such as application hosting and new SIP-based services. As they build SIP-capable networks, carriers will need to guarantee call quality and be able to scale this traffic. F5 Networks is the only IP traffic management vendor to offer a complete solution today. "The fact that F5 is the only ITM ITM See: In-the-money company that can direct and manage SIP-based traffic is yet another proof point of our market leading innovation and technology leadership," said Jeff Pancottine, senior vice-president of marketing and business development at F5 Networks. "We're very enthusiastic about the joint OATS solution and excited about our partnership with dynamicsoft, which is clearly a leader in SIP-based solutions. By joining forces, F5 and dynamicsoft offer carriers an extremely cost-effective and reliable solution for managing SIP-based traffic; heightening their opportunities to offer services that can generate new revenue streams." |
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