[f-nsp] Foundry vs F5

[Oliver Adam]

Foundry is coming out of the networking area... all of the Appication 
Delivery Controllers offered by Foundry are able to forward traffic 
at L2 or L3 in wirespeed in case they are not SLB related. The 
chassis based systems are expandable very easily (you can add more 
processing power/additional ports and some other stuff). Redundant 
power supplies are available for every unit.

F5 is coming out of the appliance area. Are you looking for a nice 
GUI? Something colorful? I am sorry but I am a CLI fan and things 
like that are something for kids from my point of view even if there 
are maybe some situations where it is useful - I am always faster 
using the CLI. F5 just came out with their first chassis based 
solution. The license model is very complex and you have to pay for 
close to everything.

There is just a single license talking about Foundry. Let me know if 
you need something else and I am going to send you some stuff offline.

R, Oliver

At 08:15 09.02.2008, Paul Raj Khangure wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone had any F5 experience and could give a rough
>overview of comparitive advantages / disadvantages, or point me in a
>general direction of where to concentrate on evaluation.
>
>prk
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