F5 Networks’ integrated products and services manage, control and optimise Internet traffic and content to automatically and intelligently deliver the best possible Internet performance, availability and content distribution for service providers, enterprises and e-businesses.

F5 Networks keeps IP-based traffic flowing and business information always available to any user from any device, anywhere in the world.  Their products ensure secure and reliable access to servers and the applications that run on them.  F5 also provide the tools to automate communications between applications and the network, eliminating tedious manual processes.

Only F5 products feature unique patent-pending technology that inspects IP traffic down to the packet payload level. It's the only solution that can direct traffic according to the needs of each application. Its powerful offloading, inspection and processing of Layer 7 application-level transactions is faster than any other product on the market.

It's also the first solution that can automatically respond to, act upon and prevent ever changing application security threats - providing a coordinated line of defense while making the most of existing network security products.

F5 has three core products: the BIG-IP® Controller, 3-DNS® Controller, available on a switch, appliance, or software platform, and FirePass™, an appliance that provides secure SSL-VPN remote application access.

BIG-IP® Controller

BIG-IP® is a local area application traffic management solution. BIG-IP provides the benefits of traffic management, traditionally reserved for Web-only applications, to all IP based applications and Web services. BIG-IP ensures business continuity, security and performance by intercepting, inspecting, transforming, and directing application and Web services requests, based on values found in the header or payload. BIG-IP products also include SSL acceleration to offload this processing-intensive function from the application servers themselves, increasing application performance and improving security.

3-DNS® Controller

The 3-DNS® Controller provides wide-area application traffic management and high availability of IP applications/services running across multiple data centres. With 3-DNS, businesses can ensure optimal reliability and fast performance across all of their Internet sites, no matter where they are in the world. 3-DNS adds intelligence to industry-standard DNS, and ensures that end users are sent to a site that is available and provides the best response. Its unique intelligence can examine the health of data centres, the network, and the geography of users, then direct traffic based on customizable business rules.

FirePass Controller

FirePass is a network appliance that provides clientless, secure remote user access to corporate networks via any standard Web browser.  FirePass installs in a few hours, requires no modifications to the corporate applications, and requires no configuration or setup at the remote client location

iControl Architecture

The iControl architecture and SDK provide an interface between 3rd party solutions and F5's suite of products. This interface creates the opportunity for application developers, ISV's, hardware manufacturers, service providers, and others to add value to their solutions by allowing direct communication with our suite to create a true application-aware network. By allowing this communication, it becomes possible to eliminate manual intervention between the application or hardware and the traffic management components.