SHARE Network traffic management company F5 Networks Inc. today announced it will acquire “edge-as-a-service” startup Volterra Inc. in a $500 million deal consisting of $440 million in cash and $60 million in future consideration. Founded in 2017 and launched out of stealth in November 2019, Volterra offers a service-based infrastructure platform designed to help enterprises distribute their applications across public and private clouds and the network edge. The platform helps DevOps and NetOps teams ease their operational, security and performance challenges as their apps and data are distributed across cloud or edge environments. For DevOps teams, Volterra offers management of large sets of applications with less complexity while NetOps teams can simplify app-to-app networking and security across clouds.