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F5 Agility Forum 2012: F5 roadmap to focus on telco, channel, security, mid-market

30.10.2012
Application delivery networking (ADN) company, , will spend its next six to 12 months focusing on telecommunications rollouts, channel partnerships, security, and the mid-market, Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) managing director, Kurt Hansen, said at the vendor's Agility Forum 2012.

F5 hosted its annual Agility Forum from October 29 to 31 at the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Over 240 partners and customers attended the event.

According to Hansen, the focus of the event is to tackle application delivery, end user experience, alongside company objectives, something he feels that not many vendors do.

Hansen said that, as a result of its recent acquisition of Traffix, F5 has been able to develop a strong telecommunications business in the local market, and will therefore be investing heavily in that space.

"Our acquisition of Traffic a few months ago means that we have opportunities with the six mobile carriers in A/NZ," he said. "That really involves helping them with the core fundamentals of the LTE/4G rollout."

Additionally, when questioned on the , he said that it is a potential customer as it enables further consumerisation of IT, allows greater deployments of IT, and creates demand. As a result, F5 has been having security discussions with NBN Co.