2013年7月16日 · F5 solutions are scalable enough to plug into—and enhance—SDN technologies as they come to market and mature. Recently, F5 announced support for SDN solutions leveraging VXLAN and NVGRE network virtualization, and the company continues to expand capabilities around SDN.

F5® BIG-IP SDN Services can virtualize your network to give you the performance and scalability you need. F5 products are VXLAN-aware, which enables application delivery services like load balancing, firewalls, access control, application acceleration, …

In February 2013, F5 Networks acquired LineRate Systems, a developer of software-defined networking (SDN) services, to enhance its application-layer intelligence within software-defined data centers. This acquisition provided F5 with access to LineRate's layer 7+ networking services technology, intellectual property, and engineering talent.

After listening to customers and the market, F5 defines SDN as an architecture for designing networks that reduces operating expenses by centralizing control into a distinct control plane (controller) that programmatically configures and extends all network data path elements and services via an open API.

2022年1月29日 · F5 Network Big-IP，也就是我们常说的 F5，它是一个网络设备，可以简单的理解成类似于网络交换机的东西，性能是非常的好，每秒能处理的请求数达到百万级，当然价格也就非常非常贵了，十几万到上百万人民币都有。

2014年1月7日 · SDN automates and orchestrates the network and passes the right traffic to Synthesis High-Performance Services Fabric, which then does what it does best - apply the application services critical to ensuring apps are fast, secure and reliable.

2014年7月25日 · F5 Synthesis SDN Services does just that by-ensuring not just interoperability but the ability to simultaneously support both legacy and modern application networking needs. Because we know that while emerging network technology may be disruptive to the market, that doesn't mean that supporting it in the network should be disruptive to the ...

2013年6月4日 · 因此 F5 更加支持以应用为主导控制网络这个理念，因此可以看出，SDN是将二、三层中的控制功能与设备进行分离，让其变的更加智能化，但即便如此，却依旧无法影响到七层网络，通过应用让它变的更加智能。 目前我们可以这样看待SDN，它目前所做的工作主要围绕二、三层网络，四至七层网络目前还未有所触及，F5所做的就是对这一部分网络改变为以应用为主导，对网络设备进行控制。 即便如此，虽然与一些业界知名厂商的合作非常紧密，但在过去仅仅是 …

2013年7月16日 · With today’s announcement, F5 is introducing: BIG-IP ® v11.4 software, providing enhanced features including integration capabilities with SDN topologies based on VXLAN and NVGRE environments

2013年2月11日 · LineRate brings a programmable, scalable platform to the Application Layer SDN table. Its platform is not only capable of scaling on demand and meeting performance expectations on commoditized x86 hardware, but it is highly programmable.