Alternatives to F5
Who this is for
If you're comparing F5 with other companies in Networking, start here. These are the 19 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the F5 profile.
Networking: F5's main category
19 companies sit alongside F5 here, busiest first.
- Cloudflare#11 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…
- 85 stories in the last 90 days
- Cisco#1 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking…
- 50 stories in the last 90 days
- NVIDIA#18 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive…
- 55 stories in the last 90 days
- HPE#2 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services…
- 33 stories in the last 90 days
- Akamai#12 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Akamai Technologies is a US content delivery, cybersecurity and cloud computing company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It operates one of the…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
- Megaport#17 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Megaport is a Network as a Service (NaaS) provider that offers on-demand, software-defined connectivity between data centres, public clouds and enterprise locations. Its portfolio…
- 23 stories in the last 90 days
- Infoblox#15 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Infoblox is a US networking and security company specialising in DDI, the combination of DNS, DHCP and IP address management, and DNS-based security. Its products include NIOS…
- 16 stories in the last 90 days
- Cato Networks#13 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Cato Networks is an Israeli networking and security company founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells the Cato SASE Cloud platform…
- 7 stories in the last 90 days
- Broadcom#19 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Arista Networks#3 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Arista Networks is a US networking company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It sells high-speed Ethernet switches and routers running its EOS…
Evidence is still building for Arista Networks.
- Aviatrix#16 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Aviatrix is a US cloud networking and network security company founded in 2014. Its platform provides multicloud networking, cloud firewalling and egress security, and network…
Evidence is still building for Aviatrix.
- Ciena#8 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Ciena is a US networking systems and software company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland. It sells optical networking equipment including WaveLogic coherent…
Evidence is still building for Ciena.
- Ericsson#5 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunications equipment and services company founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and headquartered in Stockholm. It supplies mobile network…
Evidence is still building for Ericsson.
- Extreme Networks#7 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Extreme Networks is an American networking company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. It provides enterprise wired and wireless networking…
Evidence is still building for Extreme Networks.
- Fortinet#10 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Fortinet is a US cybersecurity company known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls, built on its FortiOS operating system and custom security processors. Its Fortinet…
Evidence is still building for Fortinet.
- Huawei#6 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its…
Evidence is still building for Huawei.
- Nokia#4 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Nokia is a Finnish telecommunications equipment and technology company that supplies mobile, IP, optical and fixed network infrastructure to communications service providers and…
Evidence is still building for Nokia.
- Ubiquiti#14 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Ubiquiti is a US networking technology company founded in 2003 by Robert Pera and headquartered in New York City. It designs networking hardware and software under the UniFi brand…
Evidence is still building for Ubiquiti.
- Versa Networks#20 leader in NetworkingCompare with F5
Versa Networks is a US networking and security company founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells VersaONE, a universal SASE platform that combines…
Evidence is still building for Versa Networks.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with F5. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with F5's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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