Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC Follow Up

I follow up with Ken Bocchino and Sam Richman of the F5 Consulting Team to see how the F5 BIG-IP gear handled the traffic during the Interop Conference.  Ken’s got some interesting traffic, device and IPv6 statistics.

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Resources:

• Interop 2011 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2027
• Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC
• Interop 2011 - VIPRION 2400 and vCMP
• Interop 2011 - IXIA and VIPRION 2400 Performance Test
• F5 YouTube Channel

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Interop 2011 - IXIA and VIPRION 2400 Performance Test

Peter Silva drops by the IXIA booth and Sashi Jeyaretnam, Product Manager with IXIA, demos the performance test validating the VIPRION 2400 ADC's performance numbers - 200,000 TPS, 160 Gbps application traffic throughput and 2 million http connections per second.

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Resources:

• Interop 2011 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2027
• Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC
• Interop 2011 - VIPRION 2400 and vCMP
• Ixia Helps F5 Networks Validate New Performance Levels for Secured Web Traffic
• F5 Introduces Midrange VIPRION Platform and Industry’s First Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing Technology
• Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing (vCMP) White Paper
• VIPRION 2400 and vCMP SlideShare Presentation
• vCMP: License to Virtualize – Video
• F5 YouTube Channel

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Interop 2011 - VIPRION 2400 and vCMP

Peter Silva talks with Paul Szabo, F5 Sr. Architect, about the new VIPRION 2400 and vCMP, the industry’s First Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing Technology.  With the VIPRION 2400’s chassis-based architecture, customers enjoy enhanced availability features and the flexibility to scale their ADC infrastructures without changing network, application, or device configurations, leading to dramatically reduced OpEx. VIPRION running vCMP gives enterprises the unprecedented ability to have complete, logical separation of software versions and instances on a single, highly scalable device.

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Resources:

• Interop 2011 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2027
• Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC
• F5 YouTube Channel

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EMC World 2011 - ARX Hybrid-Cloud Demo

I visit with Michael Fabiano, Corporate Systems Engineer with F5, at EMC World 2011 for a Hybrid-Cloud Demo featuring F5's ARX.

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Resources:

• Interop 2011 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2027
• Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC
• F5 YouTube Channel

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Interop 2011 - F5 in the Interop NOC

I visit with Paul Vesper and Ken Bocchino of the F5 Consulting Team to share & show how F5 is providing many of the critical infrastructure components of the largest temporary network in the world.

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Resources:

• Interop 2011 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2027
• F5 YouTube Channel

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Interop 2011 - Find F5 Networks Booth 2027

I show you how to find F5's booth at Interop 2011 and give it a go at the Big Claw Challenge for some fabulous prizes!

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• F5 YouTube Channel

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Lost Your Balance? Drop The Load and Deliver!

It’s not named dough, melted cheese, mushrooms and pepperoni balancing.  Its called Pizza Delivery.  The user makes a request either over the phone or on-line with all the context of the ingredients and specifics of the request.  The Pizza Parlor then confirms the delivery location, gets to work and tries to deliver it to the destination as fast as they can.  The request arrives, both parties validate the order sometimes with a two-person handshake and the user consumes the content that was delivered.  Somewhat similar but much faster is what happens when a user makes a request from a web application.  They type in the location they want to go to, the ADC considers such contextual information like user, IP address, browser type, location and other variables to then deliver the specific content that is being requested – as fast as possible.  It’s not about load balancing an application, it’s about Application Delivery.

If you’ve lost your balance, then your equilibrium might be off and that is not a good thing.  You might have blurred vision, trouble hearing, dizziness and headaches and your decision making process could be off kilter.  You are slow to react, misunderstand requests, and give someone something they didn’t ask for or something different than what they asked for.  You are unable to take requests, process the information load and deliver an answer. 

Load balancing an application is no longer sufficient to ensure that the right users are receiving the right information at the right time, quickly, efficiently and securely.  Load balancing almost seems like an afterthought, or late in the process of delivering an application. You need to take into context the various variables of the user request and deliver that application based on the contextual information.  We use contextual information all the time to make our little daily decisions.  Which jacket to wear?  Well, what’s the temperature; is it raining; what am I doing; what’s the forecast; does it have pockets; does it have a hood; is it zipper or pull over and so forth.  Of course all this happens in an instant and we select what is needed.  You can’t make application delivery decisions simply based on ‘next in line,’ those judgments need to consider all the available information to make an informed application delivery decision.

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Resources:

• All “50 Ways” to use your BIG-IP system entries
• 50 Ways to Use Your BIG-IP: Availability
• 50 Ways to Use Your BIG-IP: Availability Presentation
• Availability resources on DevCentral
• Availability Solutions on F5.com
• Follow #50waystousebigip on Twitter

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