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Company Description
F5 Networks was founded in 1996, and it originally focused on network load balancing. Headquartered in Seattle, F5 now offers solutions for distributed denial of service (DDoS), DNS, load balancing and more. It trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol FFIV.
Product Description
F5 takes a four-tier approach to protecting against DDoS traffic: cloud, network, application and DNS. It can examine network layers 3-7. F5’s DDoS Hybrid Defender provides multi-layered defense that protects against blended network attacks and sophisticated application attacks while enabling full SSL decryption, anti-bot capabilities and advanced detection methods in one appliance.
Markets and Use Cases
Enterprise, financial services and SMBs.
Metrics
F5 Networks has a network capacity of 1 Tbps, a scrubbing capacity of 2 Tbps, and sub-second response times.
Security Qualifications
F5 Networks Big-IP products adhere to the requirements for Common Criteria Certification, IPv6 Conformance Certification, JITC PKE, NIST 800-53, UC APL, and FIPS 140-2.
Intelligence
Immediate protection at line rate against known bad actors and sharing that intelligence between on-premises deployments and the cloud.
Delivery
Cloud, appliance and hybrid. Its appliance integrates with the Silverline cloud-scrubbing service.
Agents
No agents used.
Pricing
F5 Networks does not disclose pricing.