Case Study: ooba achieves improved performance and near‑zero downtime with F5 Networks BIG‑IP LTM

Loan Originator ooba Boosts Performance, Cuts Downtime with F5 BIG-IP Solution

ooba, one of South Africa’s leading home loan originators, faced severe performance and availability problems across its Oracle-based applications, customer portals and collaboration systems. Its internally developed Linux load balancers were difficult to manage, caused 15–20% downtime, and slowed SSL certificate/key updates, so ooba selected F5 Networks’ BIG‑IP Local Traffic Manager to provide a single, enterprise‑wide application delivery and security solution.

F5 Networks, working with partner EnterWeb, deployed BIG‑IP LTM, trained ooba staff and provided post‑installation support. The solution eliminated the 10–20% downtime, reduced application overhead by 20%, cut SSL certificate/key update time from three days to under one hour and shortened change implementation from three days to under an hour, while improving performance, security and manageability across ooba’s infrastructure.

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Dominique dHotman

Manager of Enterprise Architecture