Cloud-delivered services for securing and delivering distributed applications across F5-operated infrastructure and customer-controlled environments.
The F5 Global Network offers globally distributed points of presence with deployable software instances that extend the network into customer environments. The result is a distributed application fabric that spans cloud, data center, Kubernetes, and edge locations—allowing organizations to connect, secure, and deliver applications closer to where they run.
Countries and territories
Customer edge deployments
Applications delivered and protected
Reduce exposure to the public Internet by routing application traffic across F5's private backbone and direct interconnect ecosystem. Organizations can maintain greater control over how users, applications, and services connect while supporting privacy, compliance, and security requirements.
Apply a common networking, security, and application delivery architecture across cloud, data center, Kubernetes, and edge environments. Centralized management helps simplify operations without requiring separate solutions for each environment.
Support both modern and traditional application architectures without forcing workloads through a provider-owned edge. Extend serviceability closer to applications while allowing them to remain where they already run.
Maintain flexibility over where applications are delivered, secured, and connected. Support public and private applications, regional requirements, and distributed environments without being constrained by a single deployment model.
Extend services beyond network PoPs
Connect applications across environments
Apply policy where apps run
Dedicated global backbone network
Extend into customer environments
Keep critical traffic off the Internet
Apply policies across all applications
Private onramps to the F5 network
Ashburn |
Atlanta |
Buenos Aires (planned) |
Chicago |
Dallas |
Miami |
Montreal |
New York |
Querétaro (planned) |
Rio de Janeiro |
San Jose |
São Paulo |
Seattle |
Toronto |
Amsterdam |
Frankfurt |
Lisbon |
London |
Marseille |
Paris |
Stockholm |
Abu Dhabi (planned) |
Dubai |
Jeddah (planned) |
Riyadh (planned) |
Tel Aviv |
Auckland |
Chennai |
Hong Kong |
Jakarta |
Melbourne |
Mumbai |
Osaka |
Perth |
Seoul (planned) |
Singapore |
Sydney |
Taipei (planned) |
Tokyo |
The F5 Global Network is a globally distributed application delivery, security, and connectivity network that combines F5 Points of Presence (PoPs), Customer Edge deployments, private backbone infrastructure, and direct connectivity options into a unified architecture.
Traditional CDNs primarily accelerate public content from provider-operated locations. The F5 Global Network extends services into customer-controlled environments and supports both public and private application architectures.
Customer Edge extends F5 application delivery, security, and networking services into customer-managed environments including data centers, cloud environments, edge locations, and sovereign infrastructure.
Yes. The network supports private application connectivity, including Customer Edge-to-Customer Edge communication, enabling organizations to securely connect distributed applications without exposing traffic to the public Internet.
No. Organizations can leverage F5's private backbone infrastructure and direct interconnect options to provide more predictable connectivity, performance, and control.
No. Organizations can extend F5 services into existing environments through Customer Edge deployments while continuing to operate applications where they already reside.
