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F5 Networks, Inc.is an American-based company that specializes in application delivery networking (ADN) technology for the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance, availability of servers, data storage devices, and other network resources. F5 is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and has other development, manufacturing, and sales/marketing offices. F5 originally manufactured and sold some early load balancing products. F5 offers products in various segments of the application delivery controller (ADC) market.

Founded : 1996
Founder : Jeffrey Hussey
CEO : Francois Locoh-Donou
Industry : Technology
Sector : Public
Country : USA
Website : f5.com

Products:
BIG-IP
F5's BIG-IP product family comprises purpose-built hardware, modularized software, and virtualized solutions that run the F5 TMOS operating system.[17][18] Depending on the appliance selected, one or more BIG-IP product modules can be added to a BIG-IP device to deliver multiple networking functions on a single, unified platform.

BIG-IP appliances
On the line of BIG-IP appliances released between 2008 and 2010, the hardware models used a single custom-fabricated system board. The previous platforms had two internal boards — a PC/server-type motherboard connected to a switchplane. Some models included hardware SSL acceleration for key exchanges and bulk encryption/decryption provided by Cavium Networks, and hardware compression assistance. The new hardware used Intel CPUs, but some previous models included AMD Opteron CPUs. Hardware models included a front LCD panel for configuration and monitoring and a separate service processor for out-of-band management.

The Viprion is a chassis that can hold up to four blades for enhanced redundancy and performance using clustered multiprocessing. In early 2010 F5 released a BIG-IP LTM virtual appliance for VMware.

The 2010 model line-up was, with approximate best-case throughput indicated:

Model Advertised throughput
BIG-IP LTM Virtual Edition 10 Mbit/s, 200 Mbit/s or 1 Gbit/s
BIG-IP 1600 1 Gbit/s
BIG-IP 3600 2 Gbit/s
BIG-IP 3900 4 Gbit/s
BIG-IP 6900 6 Gbit/s
BIG-IP 8900 12 Gbit/s
BIG-IP 8950 20 Gbit/s
BIG-IP 11050 42 Gbit/s
Viprion 2400 Up to 160 Gbit/s L4 & Up to 72 Gbit/s L7. Per Blade Up to 40G L4 & Up to 20G L7
Viprion 4480 Up to 320 Gbit/s

BIG-IP product modules
> Local Traffic Manager (LTM): Local load balancing based on a full-proxy architecture.
> Global Traffic Manager (GTM): Global server load balancing using DNS.
> Link Controller: Inbound and outbound ISP load balancing.
> Application Security Manager (ASM): A web application firewall.
> WebAccelerator: An asymmetric or symmetric advanced caching solution for HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
> Edge Gateway: An SSL VPN.
> WAN Optimisation Module: A data centre symmetric WAN optimization solution.
> Access Policy Manager (APM): Provides access control and authentication for HTTP and HTTPS applications.
> Secure Web Gateway (SWG): URL filtering, malicious website blocking, safe corporate web browsing, Websense OEM
> Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM): On-premises DDoS protection, data centre firewall
> IP Intelligence (IPI): Blocking known bad IP addresses, prevention of phishing attacks and botnets

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