F5 Solutions Combine With VXLAN To Support SDN

F5 Networks, Inc., the Application Delivery Networking (ADN) solutions provider, has announced support for VXLAN functionality, enabling organisations to seamlessly support software defined networking (SDN) initiatives by combining VMware and F5 solutions. F5 BIG-IP products can natively take advantage of the benefits of VXLAN in the latest VMware environments, based on VMware vSphere and vCloud Director. In addition, F5 is announcing its intent to add VXLAN virtual tunneling endpoint capabilities to its BIG-IP products, providing the ability to natively encapsulate and decapsulate VXLAN packets. This innovation will further enable organisations to reliably scale cloud environments and streamline operations.

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