Can we consider F5 as a special switch?

The F5 platform does clearly have layer 2 through 7 functionality, and I suppose you could use it as a switch, but that's generally not how it's intended. Can you elaborate on your question?

F5 can be a router (ARM), Firewall (AFM), WAF (ASM), LTM (Local Load Balancer), GTM/DNS (Global Load Balancer) and an access manager (APM) depending on what you want to implement. It does provide L2, L3 capability but its selling point is its L7 capability.

Need to do: * A * B * C * D * E * F * G * H:

More To Do: * A * B * C * D * E * F G V C