F5 Networks is a multinational American company that specializes in ADN (Application Delivery Networking) technology that optimizes the delivery of network based applications and the performance, security, data storage devices, availability of servers and other network resources. Their headquartered is in Seattle, Washington and has manufacturing, development and sales and marketing offices all over the world. Their officially sold and manufactured some of the industry’s first load balancing products. In 2010 and 2011, their Networks were on Fortune’s list of 100 Fastest-Developing Companies all around the world. The company was also rated one among the top 10 best-performing stocks by S&P 500 in 2010.
They provide products in different part of the application delivery controller market. Following to Gartner, in 2010 they had a continued market-leading position in the Advanced Platform Application Delivery Controller market and the ADC market (Application Delivery Controller). In June 2011, Gartner cites the most notable competitors as Cisco Systems, Radware and Citrix Systems. Other competitors contain A10 Networks, Zeus Technology, Barracuda Networks, Array Networks, ActivNetworks, Brocade, Aptimize and Strangeloop Networks.
