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F5 Networks is a leading provider of technology that optimizes the delivery of
network-based applications and the performance and availability of servers, data
storage devices and other network resources.
Founded in 1996, F5 pioneered load-balancing technology that distributes
internet traffic evenly across multiple web servers, making them look like a
single server. Today, our BIG-IP application delivery controllers sit in front
of web and application servers, balancing traffic and performing
compute-intensive functions such as encrypting and unencrypting transmissions,
screening traffic for security threats, maintaining open connections with
servers, speeding the flow of traffic and a variety of other functions that
improve the performance, availability and security of applications and would
otherwise be performed by the servers themselves.