The document discusses a project to improve the performance of a UK university's critical e-learning systems using an F5 BIG-IP LTM review. The university hired AMPS Global for their expertise in helping educational institutions. AMPS Global provided recommendations after reviewing the F5 infrastructure and helped speed up e-learning apps. Their advice allowed the university to optimize caching, compression and other techniques to enhance the online learning portal performance. The work benefited users through an improved experience and maximized the university's investment.

1. Key Challenges
• Make recommendations
that will provide tangible
improvements to e-learning
applications
• Provide a BIG-IP LTM system
review and best
practices/recommendations
• Help the university improve
the user experience by
speeding up e-learning
apps
AMPS Delivery
• Helped the university to
improve the performance of
critical e-learning apps by
providing expert advise and
recommendations
• Delivered F5 LTM systems
health checks
• Knowledge transfer to the
network and security team
F5 BIG-IP LTM System Review To Improve The
Performance of Critical e-Learning System
Company Summary
This university is one of the UK’s leading modern
universities and enjoys an international reputation for
teaching excellence and innovation as well as strong links
with businesses.
Requirement
Our client had a requirement to optimize their existing F5
load balancing infrastructure in order to increase the
availability and performance of e-learning applications.
The key requirement was to provide expert level advice in
order to obtain measurable and tangible performance
improvements that will translate to improved users
experience.
Solution
The university selected the F5 LTM for all its
load-balancing needs. AMPS GLOBAL was selected to
carry out a review of the overall system because of our
expertise in helping educational institutions improve the
performance of their critical infrastructure used to deliver
online courses and exams. The AMPS Global
consultant provided expert level advise that allowed the
university to improve the performance of their online
learning portal using F5 technologies such as caching,
pipelining, compression, HTTP keep-alive, and iRules.
Business Benefits
• Improved users experience for e-learning apps
• Maximizing the university investment on F5
AMPS Global (Trading name of AMEINFOSEC LIMITED) | Phone: +44 (0) 203 500 0022 | Mayfair, London W1J 6BD, UK | http://www.amps-global.com
ps@amps-global.com
Case Study:
Leading UK University