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F5 Offers Replacement Option for Nortel Customers

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January 26, 2009

F5 Offers Replacement Option for Nortel Customers


By Narayan Bhat
TMCnet Contributing Editor
Networking solutions vendor F5 Networks is making moves to rope in the customers of Nortel, the telephone equipment maker that has recently filed for bankruptcy protection.

Seattle, Washington-based F5 has launched a buyback program offering to replace Nortel’s (News - Alert) Alteon application switches with its own.
Of course F5 is just one among the growing list of companies vying to win Nortel customers including Enterasys Networks and Extreme Networks.
F5's program is targeting customers and resellers offering trade-in credits toward replacement, as well as customized consulting services to aid in the migration from the Alteon systems to F5's BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers.
Under the program, those who bought Nortel’s application can now purchase an F5 BIG-IP solution and get as much as $9,000 in trade-in credits, F5 says.
 
F5 noted that they are not only offering trade-in credits toward replacement, but also consulting services to simplify migration from the affected Alteon systems to F5's Application Delivery Controllers.
 
"Application Delivery Networking is now central to enterprise data centers. In today's economic environment, customers need confidence that they are relying on a stable market leader for this critical infrastructure," said Dan Matte, SVP of Marketing and Business Development at F5.
 
By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications and optimize the data storage layer, F5 extends the power of intelligent networking to all levels of application delivery. F5's extensible architecture optimizes applications, delivers application reliability, and protects the application and network.

Narayan Bhat is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Narayan’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Stefania Viscusi