This slide deck shows how F5's new BIG-IP offers service providers a new approach to mobile infrastructure scaling, enabling service providers and system integrators to benefit from layer 7 traffic management for their Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA) infrastructure, without incurring the costly and time consuming process of replacing existing AAA servers.

1. Scaling Mobile InfrastructuresWith BIG-IP

2. F5 Highlights of November 16 News New F5 BIG-IP release enables service providers to transparently scale and grow mobile services Support for DIAMETER and RADIUS protocols – New traffic profiles and monitors for RADIUS and Diameter Fast Failover – When combined with new monitors and carrier-grade hardware can significantly reduce downtime IPv6 Gateway – Gives carriers the ability to leverage the scalability of IPv6 for all their mobile devices, while still connecting to legacy IPv4 networks Total traffic control with iRules – Allows system integrators to integrate BIG-IP into the rest of their total solution; providing advanced, customized traffic management, such as policy-based traffic steering PB 200 Blades for VIPRION system –To help carriers manage their massive, revenue-generating traffic, F5 offers new blades for VIPRION that provide the throughput needed today and tomorrow

3. Data Growth Creates New Challenges 4G and LTE development IPv4 address depletion Traffic volumes stressing network hardware Uptime is even more critical

5. Downtime to billing systems = revenue loss. Single point of failure

6. Traditional HTTP load balancers can’t manage RADIUS/Diameter trafficGGSN – Gateway GPRS Support Node

8. Improve uptime with advanced, in-band health monitoring

9. Only single-box, high performance solution for AAA scalingGGSN – Gateway GPRS Support Node

11. Doesn’t require advanced firewall rules

13. Simple iRule on BIG-IP

14. Implemented at 1/5 the cost of comparable firewall