F5

F5, Inc. designs and delivers application delivery and security infrastructure across hybrid, multi-cloud, SaaS, and edge environments. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, the company has operated for more than 25 years, evolving from pioneering application delivery networking into a converged platform spanning security, availability, and performance. Its work touches the infrastructure layers relevant to data centre and network engineering: networking, programmable data planes, analytics, and hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

The company's core offering is the Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), a unified platform providing unified management, rich analytics, and fully programmable data planes intended to reduce blind spots and converge security, availability, and performance. The platform is trusted by over 80% of the Fortune 500, and F5 operates globally, serving industry verticals including application delivery networking, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise IT.

Technical domains at F5 include application delivery, application security, hybrid and multi-cloud, edge computing, networking, analytics, and programmable data planes, with a stated focus on AI-era infrastructure. The company describes its culture as a long-standing innovator one, mission-driven around protecting customers' most valuable assets and helping them navigate modern infrastructure complexity.