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Educational institutions are bringing more and more services online, from student registration to instructor websites to entire e-courses, and instructors and students expect reliable remote access. All of these offerings pose unique challenges related to security, access control, and bandwidth allocation, and the sheer variety of these challenges makes the entire infrastructure difficult to manage.
Protecting assets that are accessed by hundreds or even thousands of students--many logging on with unsecured personal computers--is a daunting task. Hacking, whether as pranks or attempts to alter grades, is always a concern. Innovation in education also continues to grow, with everything from podcast lectures to multimedia instructional materials to complete works being delivered online. As the number of applications on the network increases, there is an immediate need to control the delivery of applications.
Why do I need F5 for my educational institution?
Only F5 offers a total approach to delivering applications across the network using a unified architecture. With F5, you can extend secure remote access, protect applications on servers from attack, and ensure that expensive computing resources are supporting your educational mission. F5 helps you:
Benefits of using F5 for your education solution include:
- Establish comprehensive safeguards against unauthorized access and malicious application attacks, including all common web attacks.
- Provide secure remote access for instructors and students working from home.
- Adhere to all six core areas of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard for accepting online tuition payments and fees.
- Increase the performance of servers and applications by up to one-third.
- Enable network teams to optimize the performance of applications across multiple, dispersed data centers.
- Reduce the number of different solutions in the network, while improving network scalability and flexibility.
Top Case Studies
- Griffith University Improves Application Performance and Availability with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- Top R&D University POSTECH Accelerates SAP Applications with F5 Application Ready Network for SAP
- Dell Case Study: Education Solutions (includes F5)
- Kent School District - FirePass delivers content faster to students and staff while reducing support calls by 90%
- Australian Education Department - Turns to F5 so that over a million students, teachers and staff have secure and highly available access To intranet services
- Spokane Public Schools - Deploys BIG-IP Link Controller to ensure that students, parents, teachers and administrators stay connected
- West Chester area school district - Implements cost-effective remote access with FirePass from F5
F5 solutions guide for educational institutions
How do I implement a solution for educational institutions?
Deploying any of our Application Ready Networking solutions with educational applications is made easy with our optimization profiles and security policies. And to help you out after the initial deployment, our community-based site, DevCentral has configuration tips and tricks, forums, and much more.
