Why F5’s BIG-IP?
BIG-IP has anywhere from a 60% to a 25% market share in the “ADC” (Application Delivery Controller …AKA “Load Balancer”), depending on who you talk to. Folks like Seeking Alpha question if F5 Networks is the next Cisco, given their market share and financial outlooks. Cisco got out of the Load Balancer market, most likely because they felt they could not compete with F5. So why would you use an F5 BIG-IP product? In some cases, you would not! If all you need to do is simple round-robin load balancing…
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