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 Headquarters at F5 Tower | |
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| Company type | Public |
| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | February 26, 1996 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Key people | François Locoh-Donou (president and CEO) |
| Products | Application Security and Delivery |
| Revenue |  US$2.81 billion (2023) |
| US$473 million (2023) | |
| US$395 million (2023) | |
| Total assets |  US$5.25 billion (2023) |
| Total equity | US$2.80 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 6,524 (2023) |
| ASN | |
| Website | f5 |
| Footnotes / references Financials as of September 30, 2023[update].[1] | |
F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), application availability & performance, network security, and access & authorization.
F5 is headquartered in Seattle, Washington in F5 Tower, with an additional 75 offices[2] in 43 countries[2] focusing on account management, global services support, product development, manufacturing, software engineering, and administrative jobs. Notable office locations include Spokane, Washington; New York, New York; Boulder, Colorado; London, England; San Jose, California; and San Francisco, California.[2]
F5's originally offered application delivery controller (ADC) technology,[3] but expanded into application layer, automation, multi-cloud, and security services. As ransomware, data leaks, DDoS, and other attacks on businesses of all sizes are arising, companies such as F5 have continued to reinvent themselves.[4] While the majority of F5's revenue continues to be attributed to its hardware products such as the BIG-IP iSeries systems, the company has begun to offer additional modules on their proprietary operating system, TMOS (Traffic Management Operating System.) [5] These modules are listed below and include, but are not limited to, Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Advanced Web Application Firewall (AWAF), DNS (previously named GTM), and Access Policy Manager (APM). These offer organizations running the BIG-IP the ability to deploy load balancing, Layer 7 application firewalls, single sign-on (for Azure AD, Active Directory, LDAP, and Okta), as well as enterprise-level VPNs. While the BIG-IP was traditionally a hardware product, F5 now offers it as a virtual machine, which they have branded as the BIG-IP Virtual Edition. The BIG-IP Virtual Edition is cloud agnostic and can be deployed on-premises in a public and/or hybrid cloud environment.
F5's customers include Bank of America, Microsoft, Oracle, Alaska Airlines, Tesla, and Meta.[6]
- ^ "F5, Inc. 2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 14 November 2023.
- ^ a b c "English (US)". www.f5.com. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ^ "How F5 Networks built an empire on controlling the internet". Information Age. 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ Datanyze. "F5 BIG-IP Platform Market Share and Competitor Report | Compare to F5 BIG-IP Platform, F5 BIG-IP APM, AWS Elastic Load Balancer". Datanyze. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ^ "Take a Flexible and Adaptable Approach to Application Delivery" (PDF). BIG-IP Modules Datasheet. September 2020. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
- ^ "Customers". www.f5.com. Retrieved 2021-09-24.