F5 Networks (F5, Inc.)

Overview

American company that provides application delivery networking, security, and cloud services. Known for BIG-IP load balancers and its acquisition of Nginx.

Key Facts

  • Founded: 1996-01-01

  • Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, USA

  • Status: Public (NASDAQ: FFIV)

  • CEO: Sarthak Misra

  • Founded in 1996; headquartered in Seattle

  • BIG-IP is the leading application delivery controller (ADC)

  • Acquired Nginx Inc in 2019 for $670M

  • F5 Distributed Cloud provides SaaS-based application delivery

  • BIG-IP supports L4-L7 load balancing, WAF, DDoS protection

  • Major competitor to Citrix (now part of Broadcom) and F5’s own products

Products Mentioned in Wiki

  • big-ip
  • nginx-plus

Nginx compete in application delivery Cloudflare