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India
Telecom
June 9, 2005
F5 brings application networking to India
NEW
DELHI -- F5 Networks, the pioneer and global leader
in application traffic management, recently announced
its entry into the Indian market. With the rapidly escalating
demand for highly available and secure application delivery,
F5 sees this as the perfect time to bring its industry
leading solutions to India.
F5 will bring its entire portfolio of advanced products
and solutions to India. Its award winning products including
BIG-IP, FirePass, TrafficShield and iControl are the
most recognised brand names in the industry offering
unmatched security, scalability and performance. Integrating
multiple capabilities on a single, incredibly fast platform
they maximise responsiveness, accelerate application
delivery and increase business agility.
One of the first companies to deliver integrated and
cohesive solutions to ensure high availability, security,
scalability and optimised performance for application
delivery, F5 leads the industry with No. 1 market share
position for Layer 4-7 advanced Ethernet fixed switches.
The company has seen phenomenal business growth over
the last few years with 67 percent year-on-year revenue
growth from FY2004 over FY2003. Latest full year global
revenues exceeded US$ 200 million.
Dan Matte, global senior vice president, marketing,
F5, said: "This is an exciting time to be in India.
The economy is growing rapidly and outsourcing and off-shoring
have made India an important IT hub. There is an immense
demand for secure and accelerated application delivery
and we have the solutions to meet that demand. The trend
towards frameworks like SOA, Grid and utility computing
will make sophisticated network intelligence and optimised
application delivery even more critical to business
success.
Bill Bremner, director, marketing and business development,
Asia Pacific, F5, said: "We are already present
in the Indian market through a primary distributor,
VARs and our global partners. Our direct presence will
allow us to scale our marketing activities and beef
up market share. F5 has strong and deep partnerships
with industry leaders like Oracle Microsoft, BEA, SAP,
Veritas and Siebel and, we will leverage that to grow
market share and better serve large Indian MNCs wishing
to more effectively deploy large enterprise applications.
Shailendra Sahasrabudhe, general Manager, India, F5,
said: "Our target is to replicate our global leadership
position in India. The demand for more network intelligence
and functionality in an integrated, easy to administer
platform exists across the board. The market is huge
and we have an aggressive channel strategy in place.
Contact:
F5 Networks
www.f5.com
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