F5 and Telenor Partner to Build the AI Service Plane for Sovereign AI on NVIDIA-powered AI Factory Infrastructure

SEATTLE, October 21, 2026--F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, today announced that Telenor AI Factory has selected F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes as an intelligent AI service plane for its NVIDIA-powered sovereign AI infrastructure. Telenor AI Factory is designed to help Norwegian and European organizations access secure, high-performance AI services while maintaining control over where data is processed, stored, and accessed.