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A Higher Tier in Application AccelerationA Higher Tier in Application Acceleration

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Value Innovation• Unique TMOS architecture• Industry’s only open iControl API & SDK • Powerful iRules and DevCentral Community • Numerous Industry Patents

Application Partnerships• Unique F5 and application vendor integration • Application partner tested and documented solutions• F5 solutions in partner labs• Cooperative Support Agreements

Proven Results• Over 10,000 Customers & 40,000 units shipped• FY05 Revenue: $281 M • #1 in Layer 4-7 Fixed Switch Market – Dell’Oro 2005 • Fastest growing SSL VPN market share – Infonetics

Who Is F5 Networks?

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Enterprise Manager

TMOS

iControl

ApplicationsUsers

BIG-IP Global Traffic

Manager

InternationalData Center

BIG-IP Link

Controller

WANJet

FirePass

BIG-IP LocalTraffic

Manager

WebAccelerator

TrafficShield

Business Goal: Achieve These Objectives in the Most Operationally Efficient Manner

The F5 Application Delivery Network

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Financial Media OtherIT TransportTelco/ISP

Organizations Trust F5 to Keep their Businesses Running

9 out of 10 of the world’s top financial services firms and 60% of the Global 1000

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World Class Customers Using WebAccelerator

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Does your company have……

Critical HTTP/HTTPS applications?Web-based apps that have specific problem areas related to performance or scalability?An application performance or scalability problem that needs to be fixed in the short term?Users accessing the application from a number of remote locations?Users that have many different types of connections to the application? (Dial-up, DSL, T1)Lots of documents involved? Word, PDF?

And finally…Is this a line item in an existing budget, or does a solution like web acceleration need a special ROI to move forward?

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WebAccelerator Fixes slow Apps

WebAccelerator is a comprehensive solution that improves the performance and reduces costs of Web-enabled applications without changes to code

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Page Assembly Content Rendering

My Web Application is Slow!

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WebAccelerator Fixes Slow Web Apps

With remote or mobile users

Significant dynamic content

Enterprise, Portal, CRM, Collaboration, homegrown

BIG-IP WA module WebAccelerator Appliance

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Improved effectiveness of Web applications– Up to 15x acceleration in page download speed in browser– 99.999% uptime and availability of content

Reduced hardware, software, bandwidth, and maintenance requirements– 60-90% reduction in load on backend system– Up to 6X improvement in current capacity

Low risk and rapid return on investment– Non-invasive solution — no tagging or recoding of site required– Compatible with all backend servers and systems

WebAccelerator Value Proposition

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Web Accelerator Backup/Standby/Active

Web Accelerator

Asymmetric Deployment

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Symmetric Deployment

Optimizes traffic between Data Center & Remote Web Accelerators

Caches all object types on remote server

Transparent to the application

Web Accelerator

Remote Acceleration & Caching

Remote Acceleration & Caching

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What does Latency Look Like?

30 Seconds

A slow web application usually loads like this when it sends a web page…..

Lots of little objects…..2 at time…….

Every pair of HTTP objects pays the latency penalty………

Sometimes it is a 1/4 or 1/2 second for each pair of objects.

A slow web application usually loads like this when it sends a web page…..

Lots of little objects…..2 at time…….

Every pair of HTTP objects pays the latency penalty………

Sometimes it is a 1/4 or 1/2 second for each pair of objects.

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The Need

Web App - “weDiscover” portal

4,000+ researchers use

Unusable at remote offices

12 second page download time

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Web Applications Are SlowUsers are less productive because web applications can be slow

ApplicationArchitect

Users are increasingly remote and/or mobile

Data Centers are consolidating

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Web Application content is striving to be Fat and Fresh

Enterprise is shifting from client server to web apps

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Evolution of Web Page to a Web App

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Don’t Fight About It!

*%!?!!*#?!

NetworksRule!

Web AppsRule!

Web Applicationif { [HTTP::header

exists Cont

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Users

Johnson & Johnson Solution

Web app problem identifiedWebAccelerator deployed at J&JWeb app policy applied

No web app changesNo browser changes

New Jersey France

WebAccelerator

Users

WAN250ms latency

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“weDiscover” Portal Usage Soared

Accelerate web applications – up to 300%

Reduce bandwidth – 50%

Web application adoption increased

“The application deployment would have been a failure without Web Accelerator.”

Lance Smith, Portal Program ManagerJohnson & Johnson

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Solving Server Scalability & Latency

Company: Top tier consumer electronics companyApplication: Broadvision deployment on Epson.com North America e-commerce site1M page views per day and growingChallenges: Site at 85% capacity, sometimes over 100% (site timeouts)Solution: Application Smart Caching configured for BroadvisionBenefit: Offloaded backend servers without affecting accuracy. Session management required to solve capacity issue

SolutionWebAccelerator

RESULTS

Saved several hundred thousand dollars in infrastructure costs

Consistent performance during peak traffic times

Under 2 second page response time

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Solving Enterprise Portal Challenges

Company: British Land is the largest real estate company in the UK with almost 12 billion British pound worth of assets under managementApplication: Plumtree portal Challenge: To improve the performance of their intranet and extranet corporate portalsSolution: WebAccelerator with Application Smart caching, Express Compress and Express LoaderBenefit: Offloaded portlet generation for Exchange and Oracle applications reducing generation time

SolutionWebAccelerator

RESULTS

700% Performance Improvement

5x Bandwidth utilisation reduction

Accurate and non-intrusive usage reports

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Speed up Page Downloads And

Maximise Bandwidth Savings

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JD Edwards ResultsJ D E d w a r d s E n t e r p r i s e O n e R e s u l t s

A v e r a g e 3 - 5 X B y t e R e d u c t i o n O v e r t h e W A N

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5 0 , 7 2 6

0 2 0 , 0 0 0 4 0 , 0 0 0 6 0 , 0 0 0 8 0 , 0 0 0 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 1 2 0 , 0 0 0 1 4 0 , 0 0 0

B y t e s W i t h o u t A c c e l e r a t i o n

B y t e s W i t h A c c e l e r a t i o n

B y t e s S e n t t o t h e B r o w s e r

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0 5 0 1 0 0 1 5 0 2 0 0 2 5 0 3 0 0

P a c k e t s W i t h o u t A c c e l e r a t i o n

P a c k e t s W i t h A c c e l e r a t i o n

P a c k e t s S e n t t o t h e B r o w s e r 3X Byte Reduction3X Byte Reduction

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512K/Sec ConnectionRepeat Visits to Portal

Using the Web Accelerator Original Portal Performance

Impact of Acceleration

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Impact of AccelerationWith Without

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Impact of Acceleration With Without

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Transparent Acceleration for All Web Applications

Datacenter Optimisation“Generation”

• Application smart caching• Static caching• SSL optimisation • Connection optimisation

Visibility and Control

• Traffic monitoring and reporting

WebAccelerator

Web Application Acceleration“Delivery”

Intelligent Browser Referencing

• Express Loader• Express Connect• Express Compress • Express Documents• Express Pages

WebAccelerator Platform

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Intelligent Browser Referencing (IBR)

No client to download

No changes to browser

This is the onlydynamic content

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IE supports only two http connections per site at a time to the same host/domain

IBR - MultiConnect

Web Applications

More simultaneous browser connections

WebAccelerator

WAN

Clients

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Impact of Multi Connect

Benefits– Makes more efficient use of the network

– Reduces wait times

– Divides the task of requesting and receiving objects among more connections

Features– Handles browser dependencies

– Enables pipelining

– Transparent to the origin application

Enable the Browser to Increase Simultaneous Connections

Without Acceleration With Acceleration

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Intelligent Browser ReferencingWhen a user requests a page, the browser checks each object to see if it appears in cache.

If it does, the browser makes a request of the server to check whether the content is still valid.

This reduces the amount of data transferred, however, each object still requires a connection to validate it, and therefore you pay the latency penalty for each freshness check.

F5 allows the web accelerator to control the browser cache using etags and eliminates the freshness check altogether.

When you eliminate the freshness check with F5’s Web Accelerator, you don’t pay the latency penalty, and your application performs better.

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Impact of IBR

Features– Compatible with any object type

– Browser and cache transparency

– No application changes required

Benefits– Reduces network and protocol delays

– Eliminates unnecessary upstream requests for objects

– Ensures propagation of valid content

Stages Content In Browser & Downstream/Edge Caches

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Web Applications

100 pages

WebAccelerator

Pages can be sent one at a time

IBR - Dynamic LinearizationImmediate viewing of PDF documents

Client

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Impact of Document AccelerationAll Pages Encrypted

11.3 Sec

13.8 Sec

69.9 Sec8.8 Sec

12.5 Sec

15.4 Sec

15.0 Sec

13.7 Sec

29.2 Sec

3.0 Sec

6.9 Sec

19.8 Sec

5.2 Sec

5.3 Sec

32.0 Sec

4.6 Sec

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22.2 Sec

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PDF File

Search

Product Page

Product Summary

Welcome Page

Authentication

No Acceleration

Acceleration

LAN Performance

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Industry’s First Packaged, Pre-Configured & Validated Web App Policies

Validated in Vendor Application Labs - Certified Policies Pre-configured

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Siebel 7.7 Performance with WA

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Hyperion Financial Results

3X Performance Gain3X Performance Gain

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Graphs, Logs, & Exportable Reports

Track web app performance

Export performance data