F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is a networking appliances company. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has development and marketing offices worldwide. It originally manufactured and sold some of the first load balancing products.
F5 Networks' flagship product, the BIG-IP network appliance, was originally a network load balancer but today also offers other functionality such as access control and application security. Add-on modules ...
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F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is a networking appliances company. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has development and marketing offices worldwide. It originally manufactured and sold some of the first load balancing products.
F5 Networks' flagship product, the BIG-IP network appliance, was originally a network load balancer but today also offers other functionality such as access control and application security. Add-on modules to F5's BIG-IP family of products offer email filtering and intelligent compression to allow for lower bandwidth and faster downloads in addition to load balancing and local traffic management capabilities.
F5 also offers other products in various segments of the Application Delivery Controller market. According to Gartner, F5 has a majority of the market share in this industry. According to Gartner, the most significant competitors (in terms of market share) are Cisco Systems and Citrix Systems. Other competitors include Barracuda Networks,...
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