Solutions
Telecommunications Solutions
Expand services and scale quickly to serve new subscribers
Competition is tighter than ever among service providers. By deploying packet-based services over your existing last-mile infrastructure, you can offer triple-play bundles and other innovative services. This opens up new revenue streams and allows you to capture new subscribers--while heading off the efforts of competing carriers to steal your existing customers.
Conventional solutions are prohibitively expensive and do not scale well because they require building a separate infrastructure for each new service. That is why innovative carriers are adopting a universal, packet-based approach. This enables an intelligent, end-to-end delivery network for carrying any kind of traffic--including voice, data, premium video, video-on-demand, music, and other interactive services. These universal converged networks are critical in the evolving telecommunications market. They allow you to offer attractive packages at competitive prices, while locking out the competition.
Why do I need F5 for my telecommunications plan?
F5 offers a unified architecture that makes packet-based services and applications secure, fast, and available. We also provide our key technologies in NEBS-compliant, "carrier-class" hardware configurations, to meet critical uptime and reliability demands. That is why every major cable company in the U.S. and Europe uses F5 technology, along with 13 of the top 17 wireless carriers worldwide. F5 helps you:
Benefits of using F5 for your telecommunications solution include:
- Distribute loads across multiple application servers, allowing you to scale to millions of users while maintaining reliability
- Handle interoperability challenges and support a smooth migration using F5's unique iRules™ scripting language to translate between different standards and protocols
- Boost performance for customer self-service applications by offloading SSL processing, balancing loads across servers, and caching redundant page elements
- Ease management and delivery of large multimedia files across multiple storage devices
Top Case Studies
Top Solution Guides
Top White Papers
Top News Articles
- F5's VIPRION Application Delivery Controller Wins 2008 Internet Telephony Excellence Award
- Giving telecoms a competitive edge with Web 2.0 services
- Wall Street Journal Shareholder Scoreboard ranks F5 first in telecommunications equipment industry group
- F5's BIG-IP SIP load balancing solution takes Internet Telephony's product of the year award
F5 solutions guide for the telecommunications industry
How do I implement a telecommunications solution?
Deploying F5 devices for telecommunication sites is made simple with our Application Ready Networking solutions. With F5's built-in, advanced optimization and protocol profiles and security policies, we take the trial and error out of optimally configuring F5 devices for telecommunication solutions. F5 deployment guides show you in step-by-step detail how to configure F5 devices for specific applications and scenarios. When the initial configuration is complete, you'll find forums, tips, codeshare and much more on our developer community, DevCentral.
