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F5, Inc., originally named "F5 Labs" [7] and formerly branded "F5 Networks, Inc." was established in 1996. [8] Currently, the company's public-facing branding [9] generally presents the company as just "F5." The company's name is a reference to the highest intensity tornado on the Fujita scale. [10]
A large fraction of web servers use Nginx, [10] often as a load balancer. [11] A company of the same name was founded in 2011 to provide support and NGINX Plus paid software. [12] In March 2019, the company was acquired by F5 for $670 million. [13]
Blue Coat Systems network appliances [9] Borderware appliances (firewall, VPN, Anti-SPAM, Web filter etc.) are based on a FreeBSD kernel [10] Check Point IPSO security appliances [11] Citrix Systems Netscaler application delivery software is based on FreeBSD [12] Coyote Point GX-series web acceleration and load balancer appliances [13]
Coyote Point Systems was a manufacturer of computer networking equipment for application traffic management, also known as server load balancing. In March 2013, the company was acquired by Fortinet. [1] The company introduced hardware-based server load balancers nearly simultaneously with other large companies such as F5 in the late 1990s. [2]
Network load balancing is the ability to balance traffic across two or more WAN links without using complex routing protocols like BGP.. This capability balances network sessions like Web, email, etc. over multiple connections in order to spread out the amount of bandwidth used by each LAN user, thus increasing the total amount of bandwidth available.
Brocade announced on January 11, 2013, a San Jose federal court confirmed a $60 million damages verdict against A10 Networks and entered an order permanently enjoining A10 from infringing on Brocade's patents involving technologies for Global Server Load Balancing and High Availability. [43]
A10 Networks, Inc. is an American public company specializing in the manufacturing of application delivery controllers (software and hardware). Founded in 2004 by Lee Chen, [ 2 ] co-founder of Foundry Networks , A10 originally serviced just the identity management market with its line of ID Series products. [ 3 ]
Load balancing is widely used in data center networks to distribute traffic across many existing paths between any two servers. [27] It allows more efficient use of network bandwidth and reduces provisioning costs. In general, load balancing in datacenter networks can be classified as either static or dynamic.