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Case Study: Carlsberg

When Carlsberg was looking for a solution to replace their previous VPN technology, they chose the FirePass® device from F5. The FirePass device allowed Carlsberg to overcome the limitations and complexity of their previous solution, and provide secure remote access to their employees from any location, using any type of device. While Carlsberg employees access applications through the FirePass device every day, the number of VPN related support issues has decreased by 50%.

Challenge

Carlsberg wanted to provide remote access to corporate applications to all employees, whether they were working out of the home office, a sales person at a client site performing a demo, or a consultant at a customer site who needed to connect back to gain access to required files. These employees needed to consistently and securely connect to any application, using any type of device - from PC to Mac to PocketPC - anywhere in the world.

Solution

The Carlsberg team augmented their remote access solution with F5's FirePass, an SSL-VPN device that provides secure remote access to corporate applications and data via standard Web browser technology. It enabled Carlsberg to extend secure remote access to anyone connected to the Internet using desktops, laptops, PDAs, kiosks and more - while eliminating the need for complex IPsec VPNs.

FirePass was also the first SSL VPN solution with complete cross-platform support. Extending its support for any IP application to Macintosh, PocketPC and Linux clients and expanding client and application security for Web, email and file application access, FirePass delivers the industry's most ubiquitous solution for secure application access.

FirePass also supports global multi-site clustering. The appliances can be clustered to support up to 20,000 concurrent connections on a single URL, without users experiencing any performance degradation. In addition, FirePass devices can be configured for hot, stateful failover between yoked pairs of servers (an active server and a standby server), without session interruption or termination. This means that in the unlikely event of a server failure, all session data is preserved and the failover to the backup unit is invisible to the user.