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What Does the F5 Network Do?
F5 Networks, Inc. is considered a global company that would specialize in application services as well as application delivery networking (ADN). F5 technologies are considered to be focused on the delivery, performance, and availability of web applications, as well as the availability of servers, cloud resources, data storage devices, and other networking components. F5 is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with additional development, as well as sales/marketing offices worldwide. I would recommend that if you wish to make a career in the IT Industry, SPOTO Club’s prep courses would be a nice place, to begin with.
Corporate history
F5 Networks originally have been named F5 Labs, which have been established in 1996. The company name was inspired by the 1996 movie Twister, in which reference was made to the fastest as well as the most powerful tornado on the Fujita Scale: F5. F5's first product was a load balancer called BIG-IP, which was launched in 1997. When a server went down or became overloaded, the BIG-IP task was to direct the traffic away from that server to other servers that would be able to handle the load.
In June 1999, the company had its initial public offering as well as was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange with symbol FFIV. Competitors would have included Cisco Systems, until 2012, Citrix Systems, as well as Radware. François Locoh-Donou was replaced by John McAdam as president as well as CEO on April 3, 2017.
BIG-IP
F5's BIG-IP product family would comprise of hardware, modularized software, as well as virtual appliances that would be running the F5 TMOS operating system. Depending on the appliance which would be selected, one or more BIG-IP product modules could be added.
These Offerings included:
- LTM (Local Traffic Manager): Local load balancing which was based on a full-proxy architecture.
- ASM (Application Security Manager): A web application based firewall.
- APM (Access Policy Manager): Providing access control as well as authentication for HTTP and HTTPS applications.
- AFM (Advanced Firewall Manager): On-premises DDoS protection, data center firewall.
- AAM (Application Acceleration Manager): through technologies like caching and compression.
- IPI (IP Intelligence): Blocking known bad IP addresses, prevention of phishing attacks as well as botnets.
- WebSafe: It would be helping the candidates to Protects against sophisticated fraud threats, client-less malware detection, leveraging advanced encryption as well as session behavioral analysis capabilities.
- BIG-IP DNS: Distributes DNS as well as application requests based user, network, and conditions of cloud performance.
- Moved from BSD to Linux for handling system management functions (disks, logging, bootup, console access, etc.)
- Creation of a TMM (Traffic Management Microkernel) for directly talk to the networking hardware as well as handle all network activities.
- Creation of the standard full-proxy mode, which would fully terminate the network connections at the BIG-IP as well as establishing new connections between the BIG-IP as well as the member servers in a pool. This would be allowing the candidates for optimum TCP stacks on both sides as well as the complete ability to modify traffic in either direction.