F5 Networks' 3-DNS Controller Brings Home InternetWeek's Prestigious `Best-of-Breed' Award.Business/High-Tech Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2001 Comprehensive Testing of Global 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 Products by the Well-Respected InternetWeek Test Labs Places F5 Networks At the Top F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV FFIV Final Fantasy Four (video game) ), the leading 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, today announced that the 3-DNS(R) Controller has earned InternetWeek's prestigious `Best-of-Breed' award -- receiving the top rating over competing global load balancing products from Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , Foundry Networks Foundry Networks is a network system vendor selling high-end managed ethernet switches and routers. The company was founded in 1996 by Bobby R. Johnson, Jr. and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA. , and Radware. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the InternetWeek review, the 3-DNS Controller's winning highlights include its overall maturity; easy configuration and management; superior reporting features and alerting functions; a broad feature set; and a DNS server A dedicated server or a service within a server that provides DNS name resolution in an IP network. It turns names for Web sites and network resources into numeric IP addresses. DNS servers are used in large companies, in all ISPs and within the DNS system in the Internet, a vital service that ranks among the best in the industry. "Receiving the `Best-of-Breed' award from InternetWeek is an honor for F5 and also reinforces why our customers are so enthusiastic about our products and services," said Jeff Pancottine, Senior Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development at F5 Networks. "We're proud because all of F5's iTCM products have been consistently receiving recognition and honors by key industry organizations. These consistent wins are a reflection of F5's ability to deliver innovative products that solve customers' problems today in the most effective way." InternetWeek's Summary of the 3-DNS Controller According to the InternetWeek write up, "The 3-DNS Controller is a mature product that is easy to configure and manage. The 3-DNS Controller has a very rich feature set, with a DNS server that is worth the cost of the product by itself. It will work with any local load balancer, and provide high levels of functionality in reporting and data gathering with many other vendors' products." Additionally, InternetWeek cited: -- Great value, feature set, maturity -- A DNS server that might alone be worth the price -- The only product to offer built-in e-mail or pager alerts -- Excellent security About the 3-DNS Controller The 3-DNS Controller is a 24x7 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. , intelligent load balancing product for geographically distributed Internet sites and data centers. 3-DNS intelligently distributes traffic to multiple Internet sites -- regardless of platform type -- based on information about the site's availability and network's "health". 3-DNS ensures that end users are sent to a site that is available and provides the best response. 3-DNS' industry-first CDN Peering See content peering. capabilities allows e-businesses to cost-effectively and easily send traffic to a 3rd party network, based on specific business needs. The CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. then becomes a managed extension of the customer's network, allowing traffic to overflow to a CDN (overflow insurance), or peer traffic between CDNs based on other criteria. No other wide area load balancer offers this capability. About F5 Networks F5 Networks is the leader in Internet Traffic and Content Management (iTCM), 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, availability and content distribution for service providers, enterprises and e-businesses. Our products remove bandwidth congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and optimize the availability and speed of mission-critical Internet servers and applications, including web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. , 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. 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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