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American Electric Power Uses NGINX for Application Traffic
American Electric Power, a utilities organization in the United States, uses NGINX from F5 to support application delivery for network and app owners.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Network and app owners work from the same NGINX record for application traffic |
| Capability | Application traffic can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for application traffic |
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Inside American Electric Power, application delivery used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in utilities groups working out of the United States. Network and app owners needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
American Electric Power uses NGINX from F5 as the working layer for application traffic. F5 provides application delivery, security, and traffic management products used in front of enterprise applications. The practical change is simple: application delivery has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What American Electric Power gets from F5 is a durable place to run application delivery and a way for network and app owners to see the same application traffic at the same time.