F5 Networks

F5 Networks, originally named F5 Labs, was founded in 1996. F5's first product was a load balancer called BIG-IP. If a server went down or became overloaded, BIG-IP directed traffic away from that server to other servers that could handle the load. Today BIG-IP 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's name was inspired by the film Twister - F5 is the highest category tornado according to the Fujita scale.

External link

• F5 documentation and resources

F5 products