F5 Web Accelerator (WAM)®

F5 Web Accelerator (WAM)

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Business Challenge

Organisations today increasingly rely on dynamic Web applications like Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle Portal, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, and Siebel CRM.

While users working near the corporate office's data centre have virtually instant access, mobile and remote users get long delays. In the worst case scenario, they find that an application doesn't work at all.

Solution Overview

BIG-IP WebAccelerator is an advanced Web application delivery solution that provides a series of intelligent technologies that overcome performance issues involving browsers, Web application platforms, and WAN latency.

By decreasing page download times, F5's WebAccelerator offloads servers, decreases bandwidth usage, and ensures the productivity of application end users.

Application Acceleration for Remote Offices and Mobile Users

BIG-IP WebAccelerator solves WAN content delivery issues by locating content closer to users, which speeds up their first and repeat visits to portal, CRM, eLearning, and e-commerce sites. This significantly increases the speed and reduces the cost of using enterprise Web applications in remote office and mobile deployments. WebAccelerator is ideal for extremely scalable Dynamic Content Caching, lowering costs through server and data center consolidation.

WebAccelerator Intelligent Browser Referencing (IBR)

These features can often deliver a tenfold increase in interactive user performance when using portal, CRM, or collaboration applications (such as SharePoint, Oracle Portal, OWA, Siebel, Hyperion, PeopleSoft, Plumtree, SAP, and custom and homegrown Web applications).

Symmetric Acceleration for Super Fast Performance

By deploying BIG-IP WebAccelerator in a symmetric configuration, Web application performance can increase 40x over unaccelerated applications.

WebAccelerator is the only product on the market that can be deployed in both asymmetric and symmetric configurations simultaneously, giving organisations the freedom to choose the most appropriate configuration for their environment. Whether users are in a remote office, at home, or Internet cafe, they are guaranteed to have the fastest possible access to Web content and the best possible user experience.

Accelerating Content via SSL

BIG-IP WebAccelerator is the first to provide robust acceleration for Web content via SSL. It comes with hardware offload, FIPS and client certificate support, and other advanced SSL features on a security-hardened and certified system. This advanced capability and scalability accelerates secure Web applications 2x to 10x (first time and repeat visits) without worries about potential internal DOS attacks on the WAN optimisation solution.

Enterprise Content Delivery Networks (eCDN)

Enterprises want to distribute content closer to their users, but using commercial CDNs can present a variety of problems. Content creators lose control of their material, regulatory compliance cannot be achieved, costs are high and variable, and remote office users cannot benefit from each other's downloads.

BIG-IP WebAccelerator can be deployed symmetrically in conjunction with other F5 solutions to create an eCDN that gives enterprise Web sites high availability, DOS protection, and the fastest user experience. This solution also helps ensure regulatory compliance for confidential company information.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) Expense Reduction

Many enterprises use commercial CDNs with erratic results and unpredictable costs. BIG-IP WebAccelerator allows organisations to control and lower these costs, by reducing redundant and repeat downloads of content - even dynamic content. WebAccelerator allows enterprises to augment their own content delivery architecture, while still being able to fall back on a CDN overlay network when needed.

BIG-IP WebAccelerator is available as a standalone version, and also as a product module for the BIG-IP.