Where the heck does the name F5 come from?

I got asked this question today. I've been around here long enough to have heard all the supposedly "true" origins of the company's name. The most frequent assumption I've heard is that the company i...
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Jan 11, 2016
The Name F5 represents highest intensity tornado which has incredible damage capacity and it measured on Fujita scale starting from F1 to F5, So the idea is to represent that these Big IP Devices has incredible traffic processing capacity so the name is "F5" !!!