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Technology Stocks : F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV)
FFIV 260.41-0.1%3:59 PM EST
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To: Michael Kim who wrote (1083)6/14/2000 5:05:00 AM
From: puborectalis   of 1801
 
The future is bright.........F5 Puts Switching Technology On A Chip
CHRISTINE ZIMMERMAN

Vendors of hardware-based Internet traffic and content management products
have touted their approach as delivering superior performance over
software-based products like those from F5 Networks Inc. F5 is ready to
challenge that claim with its "switch on a chip," called the Big-IP Content
Switch, to be announced this week.

The product is not a traditional hardware-based switch, but a processor on a
PCI card. IT managers can upgrade their F5 systems with new management
functions by simply plugging the card into a server running F5's software.

Big-IP Content Switch is the first product built on Intel's IXP1200 network
processor. This allows the F5 product to compete head-to-head with
ASIC-based switches in terms of application-layer performance and speed,
said F5 officials.

"F5's content switch addresses two things that I cannot get enough of: speed
and capacity. It can push a lot of bandwidth at blistering speeds. I like
anything that improves speed," said Dwight Gibbs, chief technical officer at
The Motley Fool. Gibbs had been using F5's flagship Big-IP Controller for
intelligent content management.

"The new product is bigger, better, faster, stronger," Gibbs added.
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