History F5

We have a short text of the history of F5 with a bunch of milestones in our 201 book which can be purchased via direct links from our website here: https://www.f5books.eu

But to answer your question, here are a few major milestones for F5:

• 1996 – F5 is created as F5 Labs in 1996 by Michael D. Almquist** (February)
• 1997 – F5 Launches its first BIG-IP Controller (July) - Becomes the BIG-IP LTM
• 1998 – F5 Launches the 3DNS Controller (September) - Becomes the BIG-IP DNS.
• 2003 – F5 Acquires uRoam (at a cost of $25m) for its FirePass technology (SSL VPN, application and user security) - Becomes the BIG-IP APM.
• 2004 – F5 Acquires MagniFire Websystems (at a cost of $29m) for its web application firewall (WAF) technology TrafficShield, which forms the basis of the ASM product. - Becomes the BIG-IP ASM.
• 2008 – F5’s VIPRION modular, blade based hardware is released
• 2009 – F5 Releases TMOS and LTM v10
• 2011 – F5 Releases TMOS and LTM v11
• 2012 – F5 Acquires Traffix Systems® (at a cost of $140m) for its mobile/cellular 4G/LTE and Diameter signalling protocol switching technology
• 2013 – F5 Acquires LineRate Systems (at a cost of $125m) for its layer seven and application delivery software defined networking technology
• 2015 - F5 Launches the LineRate Point Load Balancer
• 2016 - François Locoh-Donou becomes President and CEO
• 2017 - F5 Launches Herculon security appliances and the DDoS Hybrid Defender and SSL Orchestrator products that run upon them. The Silverline WAF Express service and Container Connector are also launched.

**You’ll find in many sources that Michael Almquist has effectively been written out of the company’s history.

I hope this will give you some material for the presentation.