[update] F5 Creates the "Service Delivery Networking" Market Category

   

Few weeks ago after an "S.O.S Call from Openet" (here) - and it seems that F5 is challenging Openet. Susana Schwartz  (pictured) reports in Connected Planet about a new initiative from F5:

"a "new" market category called Service Delivery Networking (SDN), which is supposed to be a “complete,” end-to-end service delivery platform created to streamline the otherwise complicated and costly management of point solutions that CSPs use to do things such as evaluate packets (DPI) or optimize video. F5 hopes to become the de facto SDP with its SDN, which will provide a control plane for integrating IP routing and servers, and optimizing the performance of multiple applications".

See "F5 Networks announces 'unified service delivery' suite" - here and F5 resources - here and white paper - here.

"By working within an “ecosystem of partners” including Volubill, Openwave Systems, Flash Networks, and Vantrix, F5 hopes to provide what it calls an “integrated solution” for service and subscriber management. That includes “intelligent” traffic steering, large-scale IPv4 to IPv6 translation, secure DNS traffic management, traffic optimization and acceleration, and policy enforcement"