1 A Higher Tier in Application Acceleration

2 Value Innovation Unique TMOS architecture Industry’s only open iControl API & SDK Powerful iRules and DevCentral Community Numerous Industry Patents Application Partnerships Unique F5 and application vendor integration Application partner tested and documented solutions F5 solutions in partner labs Cooperative Support Agreements Proven Results Over 10,000 Customers & 40,000 units shipped FY05 Revenue: $281 M #1 in Layer 4-7 Fixed Switch Market – Dell’Oro 2005 Fastest growing SSL VPN market share – Infonetics Who Is F5 Networks?

3 Enterprise Manager TMOS iControl ApplicationsUsers BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager International Data Center BIG-IP Link Controller WANJet FirePass BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Web Accelerator TrafficShield Business Goal: Achieve These Objectives in the Most Operationally Efficient Manner The F5 Application Delivery Network

4 FinancialMediaOtherITTransportTelco/ISP Organizations Trust F5 to Keep their Businesses Running 9 out of 10 of the world’s top financial services firms and 60% of the Global 1000

5 World Class Customers Using WebAccelerator

6 Does your company have…… Critical HTTP/HTTPS applications? Web-based apps that have specific problem areas related to performance or scalability? An application performance or scalability problem that needs to be fixed in the short term? Users accessing the application from a number of remote locations? Users that have many different types of connections to the application? (Dial-up, DSL, T1) Lots of documents involved? Word, PDF? And finally… Is this a line item in an existing budget, or does a solution like web acceleration need a special ROI to move forward?

7 WebAccelerator Fixes slow Apps WebAccelerator is a comprehensive solution that improves the performance and reduces costs of Web-enabled applications without changes to code

8 Page Assembly Content Rendering My Web Application is Slow!

9 WebAccelerator Fixes Slow Web Apps With remote or mobile users Significant dynamic content Enterprise, Portal, CRM, Collaboration, homegrown BIG-IP WA module WebAccelerator Appliance

10 Improved effectiveness of Web applications –Up to 15x acceleration in page download speed in browser –99.999% uptime and availability of content Reduced hardware, software, bandwidth, and maintenance requirements –60-90% reduction in load on backend system –Up to 6X improvement in current capacity Low risk and rapid return on investment –Non-invasive solution — no tagging or recoding of site required –Compatible with all backend servers and systems WebAccelerator Value Proposition

11 Web Accelerator Backup/Standby/Active Web Accelerator Asymmetric Deployment

12 Symmetric Deployment Optimizes traffic between Data Center & Remote Web Accelerators Caches all object types on remote server Transparent to the application Web Accelerator Remote Acceleration & Caching

13 What does Latency Look Like? 30 Seconds A slow web application usually loads like this when it sends a web page….. Lots of little objects….. 2 at time……. Every pair of HTTP objects pays the latency penalty……… Sometimes it is a 1/4 or 1/2 second for each pair of objects. A slow web application usually loads like this when it sends a web page….. Lots of little objects….. 2 at time……. Every pair of HTTP objects pays the latency penalty……… Sometimes it is a 1/4 or 1/2 second for each pair of objects.

14 The Need Web App - “weDiscover” portal 4,000+ researchers use Unusable at remote offices 12 second page download time

15 Web Applications Are Slow Users are less productive because web applications can be slow Application Architect Users are increasingly remote and/or mobile Data Centers are consolidating = Web Application content is striving to be Fat and Fresh Enterprise is shifting from client server to web apps

16 Evolution of Web Page to a Web App

17 Don’t Fight About It! *%!?! !*#?! Networks Rule! Web Apps Rule! Web Application if { [ exists Cont

18 Users Johnson & Johnson Solution Web app problem identified WebAccelerator deployed at J&J Web app policy applied No web app changes No browser changes New JerseyFrance WebAccelerator Users WAN 250ms latency

19 “weDiscover” Portal Usage Soared Accelerate web applications – up to 300% Reduce bandwidth – 50% Web application adoption increased “The application deployment would have been a failure without Web Accelerator.” Lance Smith, Portal Program Manager Johnson & Johnson

20 Solving Server Scalability & Latency Company: Top tier consumer electronics company Application: Broadvision deployment on Epson.com North America e-commerce site 1M page views per day and growing Challenges: Site at 85% capacity, sometimes over 100% (site timeouts) Solution: Application Smart Caching configured for Broadvision Benefit: Offloaded backend servers without affecting accuracy. Session management required to solve capacity issue Solution WebAccelerator RESULTS Saved several hundred thousand dollars in infrastructure costs Consistent performance during peak traffic times Under 2 second page response time

21 Solving Enterprise Portal Challenges Company: British Land is the largest real estate company in the UK with almost 12 billion British pound worth of assets under management Application: Plumtree portal Challenge: To improve the performance of their intranet and extranet corporate portals Solution: WebAccelerator with Application Smart caching, Express Compress and Express Loader Benefit: Offloaded portlet generation for Exchange and Oracle applications reducing generation time Solution WebAccelerator RESULTS 700% Performance Improvement 5x Bandwidth utilisation reduction Accurate and non-intrusive usage reports

22 Speed up Page Downloads And Maximise Bandwidth Savings

23 JD Edwards Results 3X Byte Reduction

24 512K/Sec Connection Repeat Visits to Portal Using the Web Accelerator Original Portal Performance Impact of Acceleration

25 Impact of Acceleration With Without

26 Impact of Acceleration With Without

27 Impact of Acceleration With Without

28 Impact of Acceleration With Without

29 Impact of Acceleration With Without

30 Impact of Acceleration With Without

31 Impact of Acceleration With Without

32 Transparent Acceleration for All Web Applications Datacenter Optimisation “Generation” Application smart caching Static caching SSL optimisation Connection optimisation Visibility and Control Traffic monitoring and reporting WebAccelerator Web Application Acceleration “Delivery” Intelligent Browser Referencing Express Loader Express Connect Express Compress Express Documents Express Pages WebAccelerator Platform

33 Intelligent Browser Referencing (IBR) No client to download No changes to browser This is the only dynamic content

34 IE supports only two http connections per site at a time to the same host/domain IBR - MultiConnect Web Applications More simultaneous browser connections WebAccelerator WAN Clients

35 Impact of Multi Connect Benefits –Makes more efficient use of the network –Reduces wait times –Divides the task of requesting and receiving objects among more connections Features –Handles browser dependencies –Enables pipelining –Transparent to the origin application Enable the Browser to Increase Simultaneous Connections Without AccelerationWith Acceleration

36 Intelligent Browser Referencing When a user requests a page, the browser checks each object to see if it appears in cache. If it does, the browser makes a request of the server to check whether the content is still valid. This reduces the amount of data transferred, however, each object still requires a connection to validate it, and therefore you pay the latency penalty for each freshness check. F5 allows the web accelerator to control the browser cache using etags and eliminates the freshness check altogether. When you eliminate the freshness check with F5’s Web Accelerator, you don’t pay the latency penalty, and your application performs better.

37 Impact of IBR Features –Compatible with any object type –Browser and cache transparency –No application changes required Benefits –Reduces network and protocol delays –Eliminates unnecessary upstream requests for objects –Ensures propagation of valid content Stages Content In Browser & Downstream/Edge Caches

38 Web Applications 100 pages WebAccelerator Pages can be sent one at a time IBR - Dynamic Linearization Immediate viewing of PDF documents Client

39 Impact of Document Acceleration All Pages Encrypted 11.3 Sec 13.8 Sec 69.9 Sec 8.8 Sec 12.5 Sec 15.4 Sec 15.0 Sec 13.7 Sec 29.2 Sec 3.0 Sec 6.9 Sec 19.8 Sec 5.2 Sec 5.3 Sec 32.0 Sec 4.6 Sec 7.0 Sec 22.2 Sec 0.0 Sec10.0 Sec20.0 Sec30.0 Sec40.0 Sec50.0 Sec60.0 Sec70.0 Sec PDF File Search Product Page Product Summary Welcome Page Authentication No Acceleration Acceleration LAN Performance

40 Industry’s First Packaged, Pre-Configured & Validated Web App Policies Validated in Vendor Application Labs - Certified Policies Pre-configured

41 Siebel 7.7 Performance with WA

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43 Hyperion Financial Results 3X Performance Gain

44 Graphs, Logs, & Exportable Reports Track web app performance Export performance data

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