F5, Inc. engages in the business of multi-cloud application services. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and currently employs 6,578 full-time employees. The firm enables its customers to deploy, operate, secure, optimize, and govern every application and application programming interface (API) across any architecture, on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge. Its enterprise-grade application services are available as hardware, software, and software-as-a-service solutions optimized for hybrid, multi-cloud environments, with modules that can run independently, or as part of an integrated solution on its high-performance appliances. Through its F5 BIG-IP, F5 NGINX, and F5 Distributed Cloud Services product families, which deliver a range of integrated, application and delivery services leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities that support application performance and protect legacy, modern, and AI-powered applications and APIs across the data center, public clouds, and edge locations.