Case Study: Human Kinetics achieves 2–3x faster website performance and zero downtime with F5 Networks

Human Kinetics Boosts Website Performance, Security, and Innovation with F5 Solution

Human Kinetics, an Illinois-based publisher that manages its own e-commerce site and nearly 40 educational storefronts, faced unstable, inflexible third‑party network infrastructure that caused high latency, frequent outages, and even prevented IP‑based currency selection for customers. To improve performance, availability, and application security, Human Kinetics turned to F5 Networks and its BIG‑IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG‑IP Application Security Manager solutions.

F5 Networks deployed two BIG‑IP LTM application delivery controllers and the BIG‑IP ASM web application firewall, delivering 2–3× faster response times, virtually eliminating the roughly four hours/week of downtime the prior solution caused, and recovering at least eight hours/week previously spent on support. The F5 Networks solution also reduced false positives, enabled IP tracking and role‑based access, improved rich‑media delivery for international customers, and strengthened overall security and manageability.

Human Kinetics

Brad Trankina

Director of Network and Information Systems