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“TRAFFIC CONTROL”
Technology
Computer Networks
NASD: FFIV
F5 Networks, Inc.
John McAdam
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Interview conducted by:
Diane Reynolds, Co Publisher
CEOCFOinterviews.com
March 2002
Company
Profile:
F5
Networks is a leader in Internet Traffic and Content Management (iTCM). The company’s integrated suite of
software-based products enables enterprise customers to manage, control and optimize
Internet traffic and content, improving the performance, availability, and scalability of
their networks. In addition to selling its family of appliances and application switches
directly and through value-added resellers, the company licenses its industry-leading
traffic management software to OEM customers, including Dell and Nokia. It also sells its software into the emerging blade
server market. The company’s solutions
are widely deployed in large enterprises, top service providers, financial institutions,
government agencies, healthcare, and portals throughout the world. The company is headquartered in Seattle,
Washington, and has offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Ceocfointerviews: Please let my readers know what is happening over
at F5 Networks.
Mr. McAdam: F5 is very much focused on traffic
management solutions for the Internet, and following the collapse of the dot-coms in the
last quarter of calendar 2000 we have been refocusing our business on large corporate
enterprises. Our target customers are Fortune
2000 companies that have applications running in the data center and are redeploying those
applications using the Internet. Our traffic
and content management products effectively optimize those applications, lowering their
cost and improving their performance. And in
conjunction with our shift of focus to the enterprise, we’ve announced a number of
new products and blue chip partnerships.
Ceocfointerviews: Actually, this company was founded back in 1996
and you didn’t go public until 1999, so it has been around.
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