AKO/DKO, a partnership between Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army, provides a single enterprise portal that serves as the entry point for all U.S. Department of Defense and authorized users to access Defense Department and government intranets supporting operations, missions, and critical support processes for forces worldwide.

"From the beginning of our implementation, key factors for success with the AKO/DKO ETL included an infrastructure comprised of the most robust solutions for application delivery," said Skip Magness, AKO/DKO program manager at Northrop Grumman. "The sheer volume of traffic that the AKO/DKO portal generates required solutions that enhance security , manage and redirect traffic, reduce server loads, and provide for disaster recovery if necessary. With the continuing growth of service portal traffic, we also required scalable solutions to meet the needs of the users. We are seeing excellent results with the solutions we've implemented."

For AKO/DKO ETL, Northrop Grumman implemented multiple F5® BIG-IP solutions, including BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM™) to load balance, secure , and optimize application traffic; BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM™) for WAN high availability with seamless disaster recovery and routing; and BIG-IP WebAccelerator™ to reduce server processor utilization and bandwidth usage.

BIG-IP Modules Streamline Performance for the AKO/DKO Lab

The BIG-IP IPv6 Gateway™ module provides translation and load balancing between v4 and v6 networks, and directs traffic across mixed IPv6 and IPv4 devices. The BIG-IP Intelligent Compression™ module reduces the volume of traffic sent to users. The BIG-IP Fast Cache™ module prevents servers from repeatedly handling requests for identical content , and the BIG-IP Advanced Client Authentication™ module eliminates the need to manage and enforce authentication individually across applications. (continued...)

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