F5 started as a load balancer company, but today it’s a multi-cloud application security and delivery platform. The company’s technology sits at the intersection of networking and security, ensuring applications are fast, available, and protected regardless of where they’re deployed.
F5’s BIG-IP platform has been an industry standard for application delivery controllers for over two decades. It handles load balancing, SSL offloading, traffic management, and web application firewall functions for the world’s largest enterprises and service providers.
The acquisition of NGINX in 2019 gave F5 the most popular web server and reverse proxy in the world, strengthening its position in modern, cloud-native architectures. F5 Distributed Cloud Services extend these capabilities to multi-cloud and edge environments with a SaaS-delivered platform.
Security features include advanced WAF, bot defense, DDoS protection, and API security. F5 processes an enormous amount of internet traffic — the company claims its technology handles nearly half of all web application traffic globally. For organizations running complex, distributed applications that need both performance and security, F5’s combined application delivery and protection capabilities are hard to replicate.
