F5 NETWORKS, INC. Overview
Company Headquarters: US
Founded: 1996
Workforce: 4,409
Company Working: F5 Networks, Inc. (F5 Networks) provides hardware solutions and services for application security, remote access, firewall protection, wide area network (WAN) optimization, access policy management, carrier-grade network address translation, diameter signaling policy enforcement, and fraud detection. The company operates through one segment that derives its revenue from two categories, namely products and services. The product category has been further classified into two divisions that include application services and deployment options. The application services division offers products including traffic management, application security, and infrastructure security. The traffic management segment provides programmable L7 load balancing, global server load balancing, DNS delivery, and policy enforcement services. Application services also comprise application security, which deals with web application firewall, SSL orchestration, identity, and access management. Infrastructure security comprises L4 Firewall and anti-DDoS. Additionally, the deployment options division offers cloud services (as a Service) including DNS cloud service, cloud software, including Big-IP cloud edition, BIG-IP virtual edition, and managed services. The services division includes professional services including consulting, training programs and education, and certification for various applications. Geographically, the company operates in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
Strategy
F5 Networks follows the organic growth approach in the diameter signaling market. Over the past few years, the company has been constantly making changes in its products and solutions and helping its clients to keep products and services in line with the market. Offering a complete, integrated suite of applications and services is helping the company to target new customer bases and retain the existing ones. Increasing investments in R&D helps to satisfy the needs of customers as every new technology is replacing the previous one. In 2015, the company invested USD 296 million in research and development, which is a growth of 12% from previous year.
