Transition Systems Group Launches Agile Distribution In South East Asia

Agile To Bring F5 Networks’ Flexible, Cost-Effective Software Defined Application Services To South East Asia’s Growth Markets

February 20, 2014. Singapore – Transition Systems, a leading value added distributor of innovative networking products and services in South East Asia, today announced a new level of commitment for its partnership with F5 Networks through the launch of Agile Distribution to deliver F5’s market leading Application Delivery Networking (ADN) solution to customers in South East Asia.

Headquartered in Singapore, Agile Distribution aims to bring better value and provide more focused resources, support, and enablement services to both its channel partners and their customers.  Agile Distribution Thailand and Singapore will be spearheaded by the General Managers, Ms. Wanrattika Ditcharoen and Ms. Tricia Yeo respectively.

With networks lying at the heart of many businesses, enabling them to adapt to a dynamic market, exploit new and fleeting opportunities and improve operational efficiency becomes more crucial for success than ever. In the name of better efficiency and cost savings, many are adopting cloud-driven application delivery models to be more agile.

“For the past years we have already seen great success from our partnership with F5 Networks. We have now formed Agile Distribution to further expand this relationship with a dedicated team to prepare for the next phase of growth. Setting up Agile Distribution shows our commitment as we will have a team fully focused on supporting the growth of the F5 Networks business in the region by providing value added services to our Channel Partners and their customers,” says Mr. Jonathan Juay, Group Managing Director, Transition Systems Group.

According to an industry survey, the majority of applications are accessed via the Web. Mobiles have introduced a shift in the devices we use to access these applications. According to Gartner, 2.7 billion mobile devices will be shipped in 2017 and 40 percent of the workforce will be mobile. Meanwhile, Clouds are changing the way applications are developed and deployed.

Therefore, a big challenge for many companies and governments alike is to facilitate the transition of their heritage IT setup from a network to an application centric architecture to ensure secure business operations, reduction of upfront costs, simplified deployment as well as management and maintenance.

Agile Distribution was set up to address this trend in delivering F5’s ADN solutions to businesses across South East Asia. Starting in Singapore and Thailand, Agile will shortly also start operations in Indonesia and the Philippines.

With F5’s recently launched New Synthesis Architectural Vision, Agile Distribution will be able to offer featured elements that have been specifically designed to resonate within F5’s partner ecosystem and help customers build a high performance fabric to deploy application services.

 “Agile’s partnership with F5 Networks comes at a timely juncture with the launch of Synthesis Architectural Vision.  Synthesis changes the way we communicate and will also change the way we sell our solutions. The need to evolve is vital with the growing change in demographics influences on purchasing behaviors. We need to remain agile and flexible in order to meet tomorrow’s challenges,” says Teong Eng Guan, Regional Vice President, ASEAN and Korea, F5 Networks.

Agile Distribution plans to offer F5’s complete range of market leading business and technology solutions to help organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully deliver applications to anyone, anywhere, at any time.

大马F5推出BIG-IP v11软件

全球領先的應用交付網絡服务商实现动态数据中心愿景予本地金融及通讯业者

吉隆坡, 4日讯 - F5 Networks(NASDAQ: FFIV)，全球領先的應用交付網絡服务商发布其功能强大的BIG-IP v11软件. 基于F5动态数据中心愿景的基础上来满足金融业,通讯业 和公共部门的科技需求.

陈志强 , F5 Networks区域经理(大马),表示, “目前在大马，排名在前三位的领先的电信公司都F5的满意客户 - 使用F5科技来智能地管理其网络数据流量已达至最佳效益的宽带资源优化，以实现降低运营成本，同时提供更好的商业决策.”

陈志强也分享在2010年间, F5 Networks占据了超过60％的大马应用交付网络的市场份额.

F5 BIG – IP v11现提供F5客户免费升级，提供公司提高达100倍快速的应用程序服务，重新配置的能力，让科技功能和服务能更符合业务上的需求，并能够更好的视察及报告科技的资源运用。

陈志强还说到， “随着云端科技迅速地成为科技资源运用的模式， F5的科技解决方案让使服务供应商，如银行，电信公司和政府机构通过有效的虚拟化模式提供他们的服务（通过应用程序的部署）。”

“服务供应商的网络现已成为定义用户应用交付基础架构的部分并决定着其网络效率，F5的BIG – IP科技解决方案让使服务供应商能够有效做到这一点。“


BIG-IP v11：协调服务予特定应用

BIG-IP v11提供了用户、应用和网络的全方位解决方案，可以让IT团队像供应虚拟机一样，快速逐应用层部署和提供应用服务。通过为各个具体应用匹配适当的服务， 例如身份验证、数据保护、流量管理和加速，提供始终如一的用户体验，尤其是在虚拟环境和云环境中部署新应用或现有应用时。

“BIG - IP v11为企业，特别是电信和金融业者，配置，监控，扩张，并保护其商业应用系统， 以确保其业务应用程序能获得更高的效率，灵活性，并降低投资成本和运维成本，” 陈志强总结。

F5利用全新DNS服务克服行动流量成长挑战

智能域名系统（Domain Name System, DNS）协助通讯服务供应商建立更优良的基于IP网络

吉隆坡,2011年11月10日 – F5 Networks公司, 全球应用交付网络(Application Delivery Networking, ADN）厂商, 近日宣布其智慧型电信满级网域名称系统(Domain Name System, DNS) 服务支援通讯服务供应商(Communications Service Providers ,CSPs) 更高效率地延展DNS基础设施、大幅降低成本，并且更快速部署关键性的新获利型服务。

F5透过这些服务持续实践其服务递送网路(Service Delivery Networking, SDN)愿景，为通讯服务供应商提供一个统合平台，协助它们在一个单一的IP-based网路之上提供语音、资料和视讯服务.“现今,通信服务提供者会很惊讶的发现他们现有的DNS基础设施却无法支援现有的流量需求，更别说是处理VoIP网路电话及其他新服务所增加的流量 陈志强, F5 Networks区域经理 (图).

陈志强 还强调, “传统上增加更多DNS伺服器的方法不再能解决问题，因为那代价昂贵、无法线性延展、而且不能解决系统所需以每秒处理数百万DNS请求的要求。”

“现今， 高效能的DNS伺服器能以平均每秒处理约120,000请求， 也就是比传统DNS伺服器更快达15倍。 F5新DNS服务方案让通讯服务供应商能够更有效率地管理这些IP流量。”

F5解决方案功能特性

F5电信级DNS服务让通信服务提供者能够建立弹性、可靠且安全的IP网路，符合立即与未来的流量需求，降低复杂性和成本，并协助他们持续为用户提供高品质服务。其效益包括：

· 高效能DNS服务－F5基于chassis（Chassis-based）系统提供高效能，比传统DNS伺服器的连接请求处理数量多15倍以上。

· 无可比拟的延展性－F5 DNS方案以每秒数百万DNS请求处理能力，让既有DNS伺服器能够卸载显著的负荷。这使通讯服务提供者能够更加高效地使用网路资源，无需增加更多DNS伺服器来满足流量需求。

· 以政策为基础的全球流量管理－可以根据商业政策、资料中心与网路条件、以及应用效能等，将使用者请求和应用服务分散到资料中心之内以及跨越资料中心，建构更高智慧且快速回应的DNS基础设施。

· 应用与服务的高可用性－F5的DNS解决方案提供全球伺服器负载平衡，协助确保关键型任务与获利型应用与服务的高可用性。高可用性有助于改善经验品质，减少中断并维护单位使用者平均营收(average revenue per user; ARPU)。

· 卓越的安全性－由于F5的DNS服务每秒可以处理极大量的请求，因此DNS基础设施有能力承受DDoS攻击。 F5的DNS方案也协助保护使用者，阻断已知的恶意网站并确保透过有效或信任的网站提供DNS回应。

· 降低复杂性与成本－F5的DNS解决方案提供智慧、高效能和无可比拟的延展性，协助通讯服务提供者简化他们的DNS基础设施并且更有效率的管理资本支出。

F5’s VIPRION Application Delivery Controller Wins “Best of Show” Award at Interop Tokyo 2008

Industry’s first on-demand Application Delivery Controller garners worldwide acclaim KUALA LUMPUR, 18 JUNE 2008 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its VIPRION™ solution was honored with a “Best of Show” award in the “Network Infrastructure for Large Companies” category at Interop Tokyo 2008, held June 11–13 at the Makuhari Messe convention center.

The recipients of the prestigious “Best of Show” awards are selected from the products and services of over 300 companies exhibiting at Interop Tokyo 2008. They are chosen after an intensive judging process synthesizing input from a panel of IT experts and conference attendees. Five products were short-listed in the “Network Infrastructure for Large Companies” category, and VIPRION captured the Silver Medal award.

“We’re extremely proud to have VIPRION recognized at such a high-profile industry event,” said Ivan Wen, Country Manager of F5 Networks Malaysia. “VIPRION provides a powerful and scalable platform with best-in-class security, optimization, and availability, enabling enterprises and service providers to implement a sustainable Application Delivery Networking growth strategy.”

VIPRION is a revolutionary bladed system that consolidates networking and security functionality, processing power, load balancing, and application delivery service virtualization into a shared, highly scalable chassis. Unlike other Application Delivery Controller (ADC) platforms, performance blades can be added on-demand as network environments and applications require increased processing power. As blades are added, management of the device remains simple, since all blades operate together in a unified solution. This flexibility enables businesses to extend performance to meet their business needs without adding management complexity. And individual blades can be installed or removed without network disruption, as VIPRION automatically reroutes traffic to the other blades.

VIPRION was released to market in early 2008. The system’s revolutionary chassis and blade architecture extends the power of F5’s BIG-IP® product family, and is an ideal solution for enterprises and service providers seeking to scale their infrastructure while keeping device configuration and management simple. Due to VIPRION’s industry-leading ADC performance, the solution is also ideal for companies seeking to leverage next-generation networking capabilities such as IPTV, VoIP, and other Web 2.0 technologies.

For more information on Interop Tokyo 2008, please visit www.interop.jp/english/index.html.

F5 Networks Introduces Application Ready Network for Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Specifically engineered for highly available, scalable, and secure deployments

KUALA LUMPUR, 8 APRIL 2008 – F5 Networks, Inc. the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has extended its Application Ready Network (ARN) for Microsoft to include Windows Server 2008. F5 is the only Application Delivery Networking vendor to offer validated, application-specific solutions to optimize end-to-end performance, availability, and scalability for key Microsoft applications.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is an advanced Windows Server-based operating system, designed to power the next-generation of networks, applications, and Web services. The F5® ARN for Windows Server 2008 will help enable enterprises achieve powerful deployment advantages, featuring support for the updated versions of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and Terminal Services, as well as Microsoft technologies such as Windows PowerShell and SSTP (Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol).

F5’s ARN offers step-by-step procedures with thorough deployment and application guides to help facilitate cooperation across organizations’ application and networking groups, reducing the risk of missed deployment deadlines, over-budget projects, and failed or poorly adopted application deployments. Each ARN solution has been meticulously tested in F5’s Technology Center, with repeatable deployment configurations documented to enable customers to reap the benefits of F5’s application delivery expertise.

“Today’s IT customers are looking for increased dependability, scalability, and security capabilities,” said Ward Ralston, Group Technical Product Manager for Windows Server Marketing at Microsoft Corp. “With F5’s Application Ready Network supporting Windows Server 2008, customers can achieve a highly reliable infrastructure for their business-critical applications.”

“Windows Server is one of the most popular application platforms that we see within our enterprise customer base,” said Ivan Wen, Country Manager of F5 Networks Malaysia. “As such, F5 has put substantial resources into testing its application delivery portfolio with the Windows Server platform technologies through every step of the beta to maintain a high level of interoperability. Microsoft has invested significant resources into building a new and optimized TCP stack within Windows Server 2008, and as the leader in Application Delivery Networking, F5 has matched those efforts by ensuring that our technologies work in concert to provide our customers with the fastest and most optimal experience.”

For more information on F5’s collaboration with Microsoft, including links to specific ARN deployment and application guides, please visit www.f5.com/microsoft.

F5 Networks提升Ask F5SM網站

New Ask F5SM Portal Enhances Worldwide Customer Support and End-User Experience KUALA LUMPUR, OCTOBER 9, 2007 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced an updated version of its Ask F5SM portal to help customers and partners find answers to their product and support questions quickly and efficiently. Launched in 2000, Ask F5 continues to be a powerful portal for customers and partners to access helpful information about F5’s products.

Inspired by F5’s commitment to improve its customers’ experience and overall satisfaction, the Ask F5 Customer Support team leveraged users’ top site-enhancement requests as the primary drivers for the project. In addition to its own exhaustive testing, F5 also conducted a beta release of the site for its worldwide user base a month prior to the site’s formal launch.

“F5 Malaysia’s customers and end-users will benefit from a more powerful Ask F5 portal,” said Ivan Wen, Country Manager of F5 Malaysia “Direct access to information about F5’s products will take their experience with us to the next level.”

“By providing a worldwide beta period for the site, we were able to ensure that our customers were as satisfied as we were with the direction of the new Ask F5 site—both its look-and-feel and its improved ability to efficiently deliver technical solutions.”

F5’s efforts resulted in the delivery of new Ask F5 portal features. Highlights of the new Ask F5 include:
· More efficient access to information through a completely new search engine
· Improved navigation and usability through an enhanced site design
· A more effective receive-and-response system for important customer feedback through advanced authoring/publishing tools and enhanced reporting capabilities

Ask F5 helps end-users to get the most from our F5 technologies, with easy navigation through a repository of shared knowledge to find answers to product questions, as well as general tips to maximize performance. In addition, Ask F5 provides end-users a way to research new deployment options and product configurations prior to implementation, which is very useful in terms of scaling IT infrastructure.

In conjunction with F5’s recent ISO 9001:2000 certification for quality management, the company continues to make customers the top priority through this and other efforts. Moving forward, F5 will continue to evaluate, plan, and introduce new features to consistently enhance and evolve its online customer tools and resources.

F5推介智能流量管理方案

F5 Introduces Intelligent Traffic Management Solution to Facilitate Multimedia Services Rollout Kuala Lumpur, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced a new release of its BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager (LTM), intelligent traffic management for multimedia services provided by service providers/ carriers.

The highly flexible BIG-IP LTM is already embedded in many service provider networks around the world, enabling IP services to scale and solving tough interoperability issues. As carriers migrate to an IMS infrastructure to deploy rich multimedia applications, the BIG-IP device ensures that their networks can scale to millions of users while maintaining reliability.

F5 enables the carrier’s platform is flexible enough to support different mobile devices and carrier requirements, while providing a single interface to the existing systems.

Intelligent Traffic Management for Multimedia Services

F5’s BIG-IP product performs application-layer switching for SIP, RTSP, and SCTP to provide scalability and high availability. It can also provide intelligent traffic management for service providers’ migration from circuit-switched to packet-switched networks.

The F5 BIG-IP LTM also acts as a translator to solve interoperability challenges and application issues in IMS networks.

“There are many point solutions for SIP and RTSP load balancing, but F5 is the first to deliver a comprehensive application delivery solution for multimedia services,” said Ivan Wen, Country Manager, F5 Networks, Malaysia. “Converged networks represent a great opportunity for service providers to grow, but they also require applications that meet the high quality demanded by users. As carriers look to capture new revenue streams and deploy multimedia services over existing and future IMS infrastructures, they can ensure that their applications are secure, fast, and available with BIG-IP LTM.”

Highlights of the New BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager:

Improved availability of multimedia applications.
Complete flexibility for multimedia application delivery.
Enhances IMS infrastructure security.
Ensures quality of service for multimedia applications.
Carrier-class hardware.

Two of the biggest problems faced by service providers are scalability and interoperability. The ability to virtualize processing over multiple service control and application servers provides both scalability and high availability. The ability to correct protocol and logic problems in a matter of hours, as opposed to the longer release schedules of a typical IMS component, is of significant benefit to service providers, especially during their time of transition.

F5 Networks方案獲SAP認證

Solutions from F5 Networks Achieve SAP® Certified Integration for Application Delivery and WAN Optimization

Kuala Lumpur, 18 Sept 2007 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager (LTM) version 9 with WebAccelerator™ and the FirePass® SSL VPN Controller version 6 have achieved SAP® Certified Integration for third-party networking appliances that interoperate with SAP solutions using the SAP NetWeaver® platform and an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). Enterprise SOA enables customers to create a highly-flexible, open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. Customers rely on F5 products for the uninterrupted delivery of business-critical applications, including solutions from SAP AG. This achievement of certified integration demonstrates F5’s commitment to interoperability within SAP application-based landscapes.

“F5 is dedicated to providing customers with a greater choice of technologies for use with their implementations of SAP solutions,” said Jim Ritchings, VP of Business Development at F5. “SAP’s certification process is rigorous; the time and effort we’ve invested have resulted in F5’s solutions achieving this distinction, signifying our commitment to providing superior Application Delivery Networking solutions.”

SAP has recently added new network integration certification scenarios around Application Delivery and WAN Optimization to its integration certification program based on increased demand by customers for solutions in these areas. Certification was overseen by the SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) and conducted at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) in Palo Alto, California. The SAP ICC has certified that BIG-IP LTM with WebAccelerator and the FirePass SSL VPN Controller from F5 Networks meet certain certification criteria in the areas of security, performance, reliability, and availability.

SAP Certified Integration status of BIG-IP LTM with WebAccelerator was granted based on the following certification categories:
· Network Performance Optimization for Enterprise SOA
· Network Security for Enterprise SOA-based Solutions
· Enterprise SOA Landscapes Access Reliability and Availability through Networks

SAP Certified Integration status of FirePass was granted based on the following certification category:
· Network Security for Enterprise SOA-based Solutions
The certification of BIG-IP LTM with WebAccelerator and FirePass marks the latest of several ongoing collaborations between SAP and F5 (including F5’s Application Ready Network for use with SAP solutions), which continue to deepen the relationship between the two companies.

F5 Network于MS Tech.Ed SEA 2007展示新架構

F5 showcases framework to boost Microsoft applications @ MS Tech.Ed SEA 2007 KUALA LUMPUR, SEPT 13, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, showcased its Application Ready Network framework for two popular Microsoft applications - Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 at the Microsoft Tech.Ed SEA 2007 exhibition at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center from September 11-1 3 recently.

Event Gold Sponsor F5 Networks demonstrated to exhibition visitors, mainly comprising IT developers and administrators, how F5’s Application Ready Network (ARN) is designed as a holistic application network infrastructure to optimized Microsoft Office 2007 system - including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007by functioning as a simply overlay network.

Ivan Wen, Country Manager, F5 Networks, Malaysia said, “The F5 ARN adds value to enterprise organizations which have invested in these two Microsoft applications.”

“In short, F5’s ARN removes the bottlenecks outside the application's control, such as WAN latency, that put application deployments at risk. It improves end-user client performance, creates an even stronger security posture, unifies access control and enforcement, and ensures the superior scalability of the 2007 Office system applications.”

F5 ARN: Designed, tested, and documented for Microsoft Applications

Below are examples of the repeatable test results of using F5’s ARN for Microsoft applications:
Acceleration - End-user client experience improved up to 5x for Exchange Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 deployments (with no changes at all to the applications themselves)
Optimization - Reduced bandwidth load by 50 percent and server load by 30 percent, saving money and enabling consolidation of resources
Scalability - Doubled the scale at one-third of the infrastructure cost, providing a repeatable 99.999% availability model

The F5 ARN was designed for application developers, architects, and network professionals, empowering these teams to leverage F5's network infrastructure resources as a service. It functions as a reusable and open system platform. Key benefits for the user include:

Improved client application response time by up to 5 times
Lowered infrastructure and operation costs by 50 percent
Simplified and unified security to reduce errors, complexity, and costs
Five nines (99.999) of availability for Microsoft applications

Wen said, "Through an open and dynamic architecture, F5's ARN facilitates better collaboration between the network and application teams.”

"The result is improved processes, reduced operational costs, and faster deployment for Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. In developing this network, F5 compiled targeted research, engineering, testing, and documentation on how to deploy an optimized infrastructure to enable Microsoft customers to reduce application roll-out times by up to 33%.”

F5's Application Ready Network is available today. Contact F5 Networks (Malaysia) at 603-6203 3048 or Convergence Networks Sdn Bhd at 03-7859 1975.

F5發佈BIG-IP WebAccelerator

Quantum Leap in Web Application Acceleration with New Release of F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator

KUALA LUMPUR, JULY 31, 2007 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the latest release of its BIG-IP® WebAccelerator™ product. Providing application acceleration of up to four times greater than any other product on the market, BIG-IP WebAccelerator offers an integrated, multi-purpose solution for dramatically boosting the performance of web services and applications. It solves enterprise problems such as painfully slow remote downloads and application access over Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. Customers can use the new BIG-IP WebAccelerator running as a module on the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), or as a standalone system on F5’s 4500 platform now running on TMOS.

“Many organizations deliver web applications—such as Portal, CRM, eLearning, and e-commerce—to remote and mobile users who demand the same speed and reliability available on the LAN,” said Lucinda Borovick, Director, Datacenter Networks at IDC. “The BIG-IP WebAccelerator brings together F5’s TMOS architecture and BIG-IP features foran integrated solution that provides secure web application acceleration for all users, local and remote.”

The BIG-IP WebAccelerator built on TMOS delivers an all-in-one solution to address two of the biggest technical challenges enterprises face in dealing with slow performance of critical applications 1) First time visit response time of web applications 2) Acceleration of SSL content. Web applications can be accelerated 200 – 1000% by using a symmetric deployment of BIG-IP WebAccelerator. The symmetric deployment of BIG-IP WebAccelerator along with other F5 solutions such as BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager and Enterprise Manager enables organizations to enhance their Enterprise Content Delivery Networks (ECDN) and reduce cost and increase control of Internet CDNs.

Highlights of the New BIG-IP WebAccelerator
*Unmatched flexibility. Now enterprises can choose any combination of symmetric and asymmetric acceleration that suits their needs. Whether accessing web applications and content via the BIG-IP WebAccelerator deployed in a remote office or utilizing the BIG-IP WebAccelerator nearest to the data center and web applications, users are guaranteed to have the fastest possible access and the best user experience.

*Complete acceleration for web content via SSL. When deploying symmetric SSL acceleration, organizations can rely on the BIG-IP WebAccelerator solution to ensure that SSL transactions are offloaded to SSL hardware and that there is support for advanced SSL functions such as FIPS and client certificates.

*Enterprise Content Delivery Networks (eCDN). BIG-IP WebAccelerator technologies can also be deployed for enterprise sites that require the fastest user experience for their remote and mobile users. Many of these organizations utilize Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) with unpredictable results and variable costs. BIG-IP WebAccelerator allows enterprise and e-commerce sites to control and reduce the costs of traditional CDN networks.

“Building on the strength of TMOS, F5 now offers the most comprehensive, transparent and cost effective web acceleration solution,” said Jason Needham, Director of Product Management at F5. This new version of F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator and BIG-IP WebAccelerator 4500 will be available in Q3, 2007.