Computer Peripherals M&A » By The Online Investor Staff, updated Fri., Nov. 15, 9:40 PM
Recent mergers and acquisitions in the Computer Peripherals M&A category.
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Slide #23. F5 Networks, Inc. — LineRate Systems
Acquirer:
F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV)
Acquiree:
LineRate Systems
Details:
F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) today announced that it has agreed to acquire LineRate Systems, a developer of software defined networking (SDN) services. Through this acquisition, F5 gains access to LineRate's layer 7+ networking services technology, intellectual property, and engineering talent, further building on F5's commitment to bring superior service agility, application intelligence, and programmability to software defined data centers.
F5 Networks is a developer and provider of application services. Co.'s core technology is a software platform called Traffic Management Operating System (TMOS), which enables Co.'s products to intercept, inspect, and act on the contents of traffic from virtually every type of internet protocol-enabled application. Co.'s TMOS-based offerings include software products for traffic management, network and application security, access management, web acceleration and a number of other network and application services. Co. also provides distributed denial-of-service protection, application security and other application services by subscription on its cloud-based Silverline platform.
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