To: J. M. Burr who wrote (197 ) 7/18/1999 5:28:00 PM From: speedbot Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Notice the customer growth in about a single month.6/4 :F5 is a leading provider of integrated Internet traffic management solutions designed to improve the availability and performance of mission-critical Internet-based servers and applications. Our proprietary software-based solutions monitor and manage local and geographically dispersed servers and intelligently direct traffic to the server best able to handle a user's request. Our products are designed to ensure fault-tolerance and provide timely responses to user requests and data flow. Our BIG/ip-Registered Trademark- and 3DNS-TM- Controllers, when combined with our see/IT-TM- Network Management Console, help organizations optimize their network server availability and performance and cost-effectively manage their Internet infrastructure. Our solutions are used by organizations who rely on the Internet as a fundamental component of their business. Our customers include Internet service providers, such as Exodus Communications, PSINet, MCI WorldCom, e-commerce companies and many other organizations that employ high-traffic Internet sites. Since shipping our first product in July 1997, we have sold our products to over 290 end-customers. 7/15 :F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), a company that makes load balancers for service providers and the enterprise market tacked on another $17 13/16 to $71 1/4. I asked the techies here about this company. They're nuts about it. They say their products rock and the company is fanatical about servicing the customer. I've asked our techies about other companies in the past. They usually don't rave like this. Look at this lineup of customers, according to a recent press release: "Exodus Communications, PSINet, MCI WorldCom, Alaska Airlines, Microsoft, Bank of America, Fidelity, Bell South, Compaq, Motorola, Oracle, Excite@Home, RealNetworks, USA Today, NASA, the IRS, the US Navy and over 400 other customers ." Remember the name.
