BIG-IP Next Edge Firewall CNF

Kubernetes-native firewall, DDoS and IPS network function for containerized and 5G networks. BIG-IP CNFs can run on supported Kubernetes platforms across private cloud, service provider cloud, core, and edge environments. Cloud-Native Edition brings together BIG-IP CNFs, BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, and BIG-IP eBPF Observability to provide traffic management, security, application delivery, infrastructure services, and visibility for Kubernetes environments. Automate operations with Kubernetes APIs, scale resources with demand, and consolidate critical services on a proven BIG-IP data plane for service provider and enterprise environments. It is available as a container image.

Current Version

2.4.2

Product Page

f5.com/…/cloud-native-network-fun…

Market

Service Provider

Licence

Paid

Price

Quote

Record Created

2026-09-20

Last Updated

2026-10-28

F5 is an application delivery company, founded in Seattle in 1996 and listed on Nasdaq, and its equipment sits in front of applications rather than on endpoints: load balancing traffic, terminating encryption and enforcing policy at the point where users meet a service. Its security products grow out of that position. BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager is the network firewall module within its BIG-IP platform, and BIG-IP Next Edge Firewall CNF is the container-native version for Kubernetes environments; alongside them sit its web application firewall, bot defence and API security products, and NGINX, the web server and proxy it acquired in 2019 and still publishes as open source. What F5 protects is the application side of a network, which is not what the endpoint laboratories test. Its rows here record the firewall products rather than comparative malware results. Vendor page →

Website

f5.com

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸Seattle, United States

Year Established

1996

Customers

23K organisations

Users

100M users

Revenue

$3.1B (2025)