F5 and H3C Sign SDN Solution Cooperation Agreement

Recently, H3C, a leading manufacturer in the IP network field, and F5, a leading manufacturer in the application delivery field, signed a solution cooperation agreement in Ningbo, aiming to combine the two companies' advantageous technologies to jointly launch a complete SDN (software-defined network) data center solution to provide users with more agile and diversified data center construction templates to meet the growing data center operation and maintenance needs of enterprises.

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F5 and H3C Signing Ceremony

With the continuous development of IT technology and the increasing complexity of user needs and application scenarios, conventional data center deployment has been unable to meet the end-user experience. Especially under the impact of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, AI, and big data, how to build a new data center with high scalability, high flexibility, and intelligent operation and maintenance capabilities has become an urgent need for enterprise users. F5's solution cooperation with H3C was born out of this demand.

Zhang Yiqiang, regional vice president of F5 Asia Pacific and general manager of China, said: F5 and H3C have a long history of cooperation and have jointly launched multiple data center solutions that meet the characteristics of local enterprises. The long-term cooperation between the two companies is mainly due to the high recognition of both companies in terms of technology development and attitude towards users. The signing of this agreement is to build an ecosystem based on SDN technology based on past cooperation and combine the technical advantages of the two companies to help enterprise users build a more agile, intelligent and secure data center. F5 believes that under the impact of emerging technologies, data centers are bound to transform to software-defined and even application-defined. Under this premise, it is particularly important to perceive applications in a dynamic way and quickly allocate data center resources in an intelligent operation and maintenance manner. The combination of F5 application service solutions and H3C's leading data center technology can lay a solid foundation for the SDN architecture.

Mr. Bi Shouwen, Vice President of H3C Group and General Manager of Product Marketing Department, commented: The cooperation between H3C and F5 is driven by customer demand. As a leader in the field of new-generation data centers, H3C maintains a leading position in data center network technology and applications. Its products and solutions are widely used in dozens of large data centers in the world, involving industries such as finance, energy, Internet, education, and operators, serving nearly 100 users. Our cooperation with F5 is to provide strong support for users to build SDN architecture based on complete basic network infrastructure solutions and F5 application service products. Through such a solution, users can build data center infrastructure more flexibly, realize intelligent network detection and controllable network docking, and perceive application needs in a more intelligent way while ensuring the smooth operation of distributed multi-centers, so as to perform dynamic business scheduling and ensure the end-user experience.

Representatives of both companies said that in order to ensure consistency and high reliability for end users, the two companies will adopt a joint delivery approach to provide services to users. F5 and H3C will continue to carry out joint solution-level cooperation, rather than system integration in a general sense. This will not only allow users to use without worries, but also make the future in-depth cooperation between the two parties smoother. In the future, H3C and F5 will continue to explore the SDN field, combine their deep accumulation in the Internet field, and continuously improve the overall architecture to help the construction and development of new data centers in China, and provide more advanced and comprehensive technology and equipment support for the promotion and deployment of future enterprise IT construction.