F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 helps organizations create an agile infrastructure by “virtualizing” the interactions between each of the technologies in the infrastructure – from client devices to application servers to data storage and everything in between.
F5 delivers the following key capabilities:
- Load Balancing – distributing load across multiple servers, ensuring high availability, and defending against denial of service attacks
- SSL Acceleration – freeing up servers from the difficult task of encrypting and decrypting data secured for privacy reasons
- Web Acceleration – overcoming WAN latency and performance issues with browsers and web application platforms
- Web Application Firewall – enabling comprehensive, policy-based web application security to address emerging threats at the application level
