F5

F5, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, delivers and secures applications across hybrid, multi-cloud, SaaS and edge environments through its Application Delivery and Security Platform.

F5, Inc. is a global company in application delivery and security, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle. It delivers and secures applications across hybrid, multi-cloud, SaaS, and edge environments, supporting what it describes as the world's most critical digital experiences. The company operates globally and serves customers across industries.

Its principal product is the Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), a unified platform that converges security, availability, and performance. The platform combines unified management, analytics and fully programmable data planes, with the stated aim of reducing blind spots and strengthening defences. Over 80% of the Fortune 500 are reported to trust F5.

Technical work at the company spans application delivery, application security, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, SaaS, edge computing, networking, data plane programmability, analytics and AI-era infrastructure. The firm has evolved from an application delivery networking company into a converged security, availability and performance platform, and states that it continues to innovate for the AI era.