F5 Enhances Suite of DNS Services with Added Scalability and Security

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced dynamic services to help organizations intelligently respond to DNS queries and application requests, consolidate infrastructure, and provide end-to-end protection for their essential DNS systems. With F5, clients can reduce internal and in-network response latency by up to 80 percent, seamlessly scale their systems up to 10x as demand grows, and provide advanced DNS security for physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

F5® BIG-IP® solutions are ideally positioned to intelligently manage and distribute DNS and application requests based on business policies, access demands, and network conditions--yielding an optimized and reliable experience for users as then as IT personnel. With today's announcement, F5 is introducing new capabilities--including DNS caching and resolving, DNSSEC validation, monitoring, and other performance enhancements--building on before announced solutions for Communications Service Providers and DNSSEC signing.

"As applications and DNS infrastructures have become more complex to address security and performance concerns, organizations are finding it impossible to scale and efficiently manage their systems," said Jason Needham, VP, Core and Traffic Management, F5 Networks. "With F5, clients enjoy a complete global DNS and application delivery solution with the intelligence to enhance the security, performance, and availability of their essential DNS services."

Authoritative DNS server

F5's BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™ product seamlessly scales DNS capabilities up to 10x as an authoritative DNS server, dramatically increasing query response rates for maximum uptime. Additionally, F5's powerful DNS iRules® research provides organizations with customizable control over how specific DNS requests are handled--giving clients the ability to focus on their most critical needs.

F5 enables faster web browsing by reducing the effects of latency up to 80 percent with DNS caching and resolving functions--helping internal and in-network visitors quickly find what they're looking for and resulting in a more seamless experience for both users and administrators.

"These enhanced DNS capabilities provide strong complements to F5's BIG-IP offerings, and make the company's technology furthermore attractive to our clients," said James Hagen, Lead Security Architect at RKON Technologies. "With F5, enterprises can easily deploy and manage DNS and application delivery services by common consent--in corporate data centers or the cloud--and maximize the value of their IT investments without sacrificing security or performance."

Primary reason we went with F5 for our infrastructure

"DNS services are a primary reason we went with F5 for our infrastructure," said Oktay Yavuz Bora, Senior Network Engineer at Turk Telekom. "With BIG-IP products, we were able to deploy leading functionality with an exceptional reduction in latency from the new DNS caching and resolving capabilities."

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, helps the world's largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 clients to apply business policies at "strategic points of control" across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give clients the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

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