F5 Networks, Inc. is a provider of application delivery networking products that ensure the security, optimization and availability of applications for any user, anywhere. The Company’s core technology is software for application delivery networking, including application security, secure remote access and WAN optimization. All of its products are systems that integrate its software with purpose-built hardware that combines commodity components with its custom application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The Company’s BIG-IP product family supports a growing number of features and functions as software modules, including Global Traffic Manager (GTM), Link Controller, Application Security Manager (ASM) and WebAccelerator. It also sells FirePass, WANJet and WebAccelerator as separate, standalone appliances. The core of these products is its full-proxy traffic management operating system (TMOS).