F5 helps Communications Service Providers meet Growth in Mobile Traffic

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

F5 Networks Inc. has announced that its intelligent, carrier-grade Domain Name System (DNS) services enable Communications Service Providers solutions (CSPs) to scale their DNS infrastructures more efficiently, significantly reduce costs, and more quickly deploy critical new revenue-generating services. With these services, F5 continues to fulfil its vision of Service Delivery Networking (SDN), providing a unified platform for CSPs to deliver voice, data, and video services on a single IP-based network.

Akshay Sharma, Research Director, Gartner, said, "The landscape for communications service providers is shifting radically as data traffic grows relentlessly and traditional business models move from circuit-based voice to all-IP services. With these changes, DNS services, which have never before taken center stage for CSPs, are more important than ever. They must be rock-solid secure, flexible, and sophisticated enough to enable CSPs to manage distributed traffic intelligently and scale in capacity while keeping the DNS footprint and infrastructure costs to a minimum."

Anil Pochiraju, MD, F5 India, said, "It often comes as a surprise when CSPs realize their existing DNS infrastructures can't sustain current traffic demand, let alone handle the increases from voiceover IP and other new service offerings. What is more, they are finding the traditional approach of adding more DNS servers no longer solves the problem - it is prohibitively expensive, won't scale linearly, and can't deliver the capacity needed to handle millions of DNS requests per second. Today, the average high-performance DNS server only handles about 120,000 requests per second. With F5's new DNS services, CSPs can efficiently manage this deluge of IP traffic."

F5's DNS services are available today with BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager and BIG-IP version 11software.

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