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F5 Announces Winners of 2012 Agility Customer and Partner Awards

MLB Network, Rackspace Hosting, and Future Com, Ltd. named 2012 Agility award winners

New York, July 24, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the winners of the 2012 F5 Agility Awards, celebrating creativity, business value, and innovation with F5^® solutions. This year’s winners include MLB Network, Rackspace Hosting^®, and Future Com, Ltd. The awards were announced during F5’s Agility Summit 2012, taking place July 23–25 in New York.

Additional Resources

• Future Com, Ltd. – Video Case Study
• MLB Network – Video Case Study
• Rackspace – Video Case Study
• F5 Networks Selects Westcon Group as First Global Distributor – Press Release

“We congratulate this year’s winners of the F5 Agility Awards,” said Dave Feringa, EVP of Worldwide Sales at F5. “MLB Network, Rackspace Hosting, and Future Com, Ltd. are clear examples of how enterprises can evolve and enhance their businesses with F5 solutions. We celebrate their innovation during the Agility Summit 2012, where we’ll focus on how application delivery technologies provide the enabling architecture for customers and partners to rethink their approach to delivering applications and services.”

The Agility Summit is F5’s invitation-only customer and partner conference. Held annually, Agility Summit is a venue for customers and partners to discuss ways to be flexible, adaptable, and innovative in order to meet today’s most pressing IT challenges. Nearly 1,000 customers and partners are in attendance at this year’s event.

Agility Summit 2012 platinum sponsors include HP, WhiteHat Security, and Carahsoft. Gold sponsors of the event include Avnet, Cenzic, Ingram Micro, Oracle, Payoda, SecureAuth, Splunk, and Westcon.

2012 F5 Agility Awards: Customers

MLB Network and Rackspace Hosting have been named winners of the 2012 F5 Agility Awards for customers.

• MLB Network

MLB Network is Major League Baseball’s national cable television network, telecasting live games and original studio programming to approximately 70 million homes throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. MLB Network relies on F5 technology to support marquee events, including All-Star Games and the World Series, providing load balancing services and securing connections to MLB Network’s internal environment. With F5 BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM^®), MLB Network has been able to achieve flawless implementation and deliver reliable service for over three years.

“F5 is a go-to technology partner for MLB Network,” said Cindy Cortell, Director of IT for MLB Network. “During the initial launch of the network, we relied on F5 products to ensure that our on-air and mission-critical applications were live and working as intended. F5 solutions have been easy to configure, deploy, and implement, and we’ve enjoyed 100 percent uptime with no issues. We’re pleased to accept this award as it recognizes MLB Network’s record-setting launch and our ability to ensure the best possible experience for viewers.”

• Rackspace Hosting

Rackspace Hosting is a service leader in cloud computing. Given that many of Rackspace’s customers have both dedicated managed hosting and cloud hosting environments, Rackspace aimed to create a solution that bridged both environments. With the help of F5’s Application Delivery Networking platform, Rackspace developed a hybrid service called RackConnect™. With RackConnect, customers receive the performance and security of dedicated hosted servers, while allowing customers the flexibility to “jump” to the cloud to scale an application when needed. Using BIG-IP LTM and F5’s iControl^® functionality, Rackspace was able to reduce the development time of RackConnect to only three months.

“RackConnect is more than a new service offering for Rackspace—it has become a differentiator for us in the market,” said Toby Owen, Solution Line Leader for Hybrid Clouds at Rackspace. “Thanks to the flexibility of the F5 platform, we’ve created a unique user experience which has allowed our customers to build new and innovative applications for their customers. We look forward to building on the success of RackConnect with ongoing innovation on the F5 platform.”

2012 F5 Agility Awards: Partner

Future Com, Ltd. has been named winner of the 2012 F5 Agility Award for partners.

• Future Com, Ltd.

Future Com, Ltd., an integrator of top industry partners, provides network infrastructure, performance, and security solutions to enterprise customers. Future Com, Ltd. created an SAP portal solution to replace all standalone systems within food service giant Sysco’s IT infrastructure. Using a number of F5 products, including BIG-IP devices runningBIG-IP Edge Gateway™ and BIG-IP WebAccelerator™, Future Com, Ltd. standardized all ordering, billing, and inventory control systems across Sysco’s 180 locations.

“Our work at Sysco had enterprise-wide impact on their mission-critical applications, impacting nearly every corner of their business,” said Greg Christian, Vice President of Sales at Future Com, Ltd. “Their needs were met with an array of F5 solutions, and we’re honored to receive F5’s Agility Award. We look forward to replicating the success we’ve experienced at Sysco with other enterprise customers, as F5 products have the flexibility, performance, and security required to address challenges and opportunities today and in the future.”

Westcon Group and F5: Global Distribution Partnership

In addition to today’s announcement of the 2012 Agility Awards, F5 also announced a global distribution partnership with Westcon Group.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5, BIG-IP, Edge Gateway, iControl, Local Traffic Manager, LTM, and WebAccelerator are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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F5 Networks Selects Westcon Group as First Global Distributor

F5 expands current partnership to enhance worldwide channel sales opportunities

New York, July 24, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today named Westcon Group the company’s first global distribution partner. With this expanded relationship, Westcon and F5 Networks now offer global programs for traditional partners, managed service providers (MSPs), and global cloud providers. The partnership provides for deeper security engagement and competency, enabling the F5 channel to better address worldwide market opportunities.

The announcement was made during F5’s Agility Summit 2012, an invitation-only customer and partner conference, held July 23–25 in New York.

“Organizations are increasingly global in nature, and our channel partners need specialized worldwide programs to satisfy new requirements,” said Dean Darwin, SVP, Worldwide Partner Organization at F5. “Cloud and service providers need a standardized approach to efficiently support all types of users and business efforts around the world. Through the partnership, we’ll be able to leverage Westcon’s network of globally focused resources and better serve the security and IT needs of customers worldwide.”

Westcon is a value-added distributor of category-leading unified communications, network infrastructure, data center, and security solutions with a global network of specialty resellers. Westcon has previously served as an F5 distributor in the Americas, EMEA, and in parts of Asia Pacific. Today’s announcement signals the expansion of Westcon’s authority to distribute F5 solutions in many new countries and deepens the companies’ strategic relationship. The agreement ensures a comprehensive sales engagement process for F5’s channel and better addresses global needs with new programs and streamlined procedures.

Through this partnership with Westcon, F5 can more effectively:

• Streamline and unify distribution services to address global initiatives
• Develop worldwide programs to better address partner and customer priorities
• Leverage channel sales distribution investments and resources across the globe

By extending the partnership, F5 now benefits from Westcon’s worldwide reach, its proven ability to coordinate efforts between global customers and resellers, and Weston’s expertise with leading cloud and service providers that support multinational companies. In addition, F5 gains enhanced visibility into business and market opportunities for organizations operating on a global scale.

“Westcon prides itself on working with premier technology vendors to jointly address the most challenging IT priorities of our diverse partner base,” said Bill Corbin, Executive Vice President of Global Vendor Relationships, Westcon Group. “In particular, organizations look to us to ensure their network and connectivity solutions are reliable, secure, and supported every step of the way. We’re excited to share this broad-based, global expertise with F5, helping customers get the most out of F5’s powerful security and Application Delivery Networking solutions.”

F5 2012 Agility Awards

In addition to today’s announcement of its global distribution partnership with Westcon, F5 also announced the recipients of the company’s 2012 Agility Awards, recognizing excellence and innovation in F5’s customer and partnership community.

About Westcon Group, Inc.

Westcon Group, Inc. is a value-added distributor of category-leading unified communications, network infrastructure, data center and security solutions with a global network of specialty resellers. Westcon’s teams create unique programs and provide exceptional support to accelerate the business of its global partners. Strong relationships at every level of the Westcon Group organization enable partners to receive support tailored to their needs. From global logistics and flexible customized financing solutions to pre-sales, technical and engineering assistance, the company works with partners to respond with agility and speed to changing market conditions so they can achieve the fastest time to revenue. Westcon Group’s portfolio of market-leading vendors includes: Cisco, Brocade, Fujitsu, Polycom, Juniper Networks, F5 Networks, Avaya, Check Point, and Blue Coat. For more information, please visit:www.westcongroup.com.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5 and the F5 logo are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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F5 is Driving the Market for More Effective Website Security and Management

New F5 program offers free vulnerability assessments with leading testing partners, Cenzic and WhiteHat Security, enabling enterprises to dramatically reduce exposure to security breaches

SEATTLE, July 09, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced a new program that offers enterprise organizations free application vulnerability assessment scans. In partnership with two leading dynamic application security testing (DAST) partners, Cenzic and WhiteHat Security, the F5^® program makes it easy for customers to try vulnerability assessment services—with no commitment. The program is designed to help enterprises accelerate their adoption of web application security best practices with an automated, accurate, yet simple solution to protect business assets. To support customers that need assistance in scoping their web application security status and to establish a roadmap to mitigate exposures, F5^®Professional Services is introducing the BIG-IP^® ASM^® Vulnerability Mitigation Assessment service.

Additional Resources

• Vulnerability Assessment with Application Security — White Paper
• F5 BIG-IP ASM Vulnerability Mitigation Assessment — F5 Professional Services Offering
• Cenzic Application Security Trends — Report
• Cenzic Security Assessment — Free Offering for F5 Customers
• WhiteHat Website Security Statistics — Report
• WhiteHat Security Assessment — Free Offering for F5 Customers

“The CIOs and CISOs I meet with are chartered with driving more services online, but are extremely concerned about the security risks in today’s dynamic threat environment,” said Manny Rivelo, EVP of Security and Strategic Solutions at F5. “Yet, in many cases, enterprises do not execute an application security strategy because they do not have proof that their applications are vulnerable. With this offering of free vulnerability scans, F5 is making it easier to build the business case for enterprises to adopt a web application security plan and ensure their applications are safe and their brand is protected.”

Automation Simplifies and Strengthens Security

By testing and rapidly remediating vulnerabilities, organizations can dramatically reduce their window of exposure to security breaches through comprehensive assessments, strong web application firewall policies, and automated virtual patching. Seamless integration between the DAST vendor’s XML API and F5’s BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ (ASM) v11.2 make it convenient for IT staff to: (1) perpetually test and verify application vulnerabilities; (2) automatically mitigate vulnerabilities with a single click; and (3) verify the efficacy of the mitigation by leveraging the DAST vendor product’s testing infrastructure. This is accomplished all within the F5 ASM interface.

The new F5 Professional Services offering helps customers hone in on the vulnerabilities identified by the Cenzic Cloudor WhiteHat Sentinel assessments by delivering a vulnerability mitigation assessment report that outlines the recommended approach to remediate vulnerabilities.

Learn more about F5’s “Free Scans” offering and best practices in web application protection by attending an F5 Security Forum entitled “Is it Time to Rethink Security?” being held in cities across the Americas starting July 10, 2012. F5 security experts, along with Cenzic and WhiteHat representatives, will be discussing today’s security challenges and how to address them. F5 customers, prospects, and partners can find more details and register for a forum here.

Supporting Quotes

“We’re excited to be the first F5 partner to have a unique single-click application testing solution that can be initiated directly from the BIG-IP ASM GUI. This empowers customers to patch vulnerabilities almost instantaneously without waiting for days,” said John Weinschenk, CEO of Cenzic. “Further, with vulnerability scans provided by Cenzic that are tightly integrated directly from ASM, enterprises can both simply trial and provision a complete web application security solution that allows them to review assessment results and conversion of the detected vulnerabilities into ASM blocking policies.”

“Building on our long-standing partnership with F5, we are delighted to be a key provider in the F5 ‘Free Scans’ program and applaud F5’s efforts and intensified focus in highlighting the importance of application security in the enterprise,” said Stephanie Fohn, CEO of WhiteHat. “Leveraging F5’s application delivery controller and WhiteHat’s 100-percent verified assessment results is the right solution for customers seeking to maximize the effectiveness of a high-performance web application firewall. In our recent Website Security Statistics report, we revealed that web application firewalls could have helped mitigate the risk of at least 71-percent of all custom web application vulnerabilities identified in 2011.”

Availability

F5’s “Free Scans” offering has released with BIG-IP ASM version 11.2, which is available today. Customers have access to free 30-90 day vulnerability assessments from Cenzic and WhiteHat. Organizations that do not have BIG-IP ASM v11.2 may receive a free evaluation license by contacting their F5 representative or channel partner. The new F5 Professional Services offering, BIG-IP ASM Vulnerability Mitigation Assessment service, will be available in August 2012.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5, Application Security Manager, ASM, and BIG-IP are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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F5 Networks DevCentral Gains Cloud Agility and Scale with Enterprise-Grade Control in the Bluelock Cloud

Collaboration with industry leader Bluelock demonstrates how F5’s application delivery virtual appliances enable cloud advantages with an enterprise frame of mind

SEATTLE, June 13, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that it has migrated its global online community, DevCentral^TM, to a cloud environment. DevCentral runs F5^® cloud-enabled ADN solutions in multiple Bluelock Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, while adhering to IT best practices for scale, control, and security.

Additional Resources

• F5 ADN Cloud Computing Solution
• Bluelock Video – Case Study
• ADN Platform Management – White Paper
• SlideShare Presentation

Until now, DevCentral was deployed in a one-size-fits-all enterprise IT environment that also supported financial applications and key business functions. To support the team’s business plans to grow and strengthen its global community, DevCentral needed to accelerate and optimize its DevOps initiatives.

“DevCentral has grown into a flourishing, global community of IT professionals who leverage F5 products to improve business agility. Rapid delivery of features and capabilities that make it easy for members to connect with peers, engage in discussion, and share best practices has always been a top priority,” said Jeff Browning, Sr. Director, Product Management at F5 Networks. “With our move to Bluelock’s public cloud environment, we’ve increased DevOps agility, achieving faster, more frequent application updates that optimize development cycles. This results in accelerated delivery of new features to satisfy our community, with the scale afforded by a more dynamic cloud environment—gracefully supporting our growth plan for years to come.”

DevCentral’s deployment of virtual cloud appliances mirrors traditional data center design, including best practices for routing and replication. Collaboration with Bluelock, where advanced cloud design comes together with proven F5 ADN capabilities, provides DevCentral with the following benefits:

• Simplified lifecycle migration from development, to test, to production, resulting in more frequent, lower risk upgrades

• Reduced complexity without relying on traditional replication schemes required for disaster recovery and high availability

• Cost-effective operational consistency among all deployments to provide predictable configuration and testing

• Clear visibility across infrastructure, platforms, and applications to provide edge-to-core troubleshooting, performance analysis, and more

• Closer workgroup collaboration enabling DevOps through a common set of virtual data center tools and services shared between operations and development teams

“Bluelock and F5 Networks have a long history together, helping our mutual customers achieve agility and scalability in the cloud, and we can now take that to the developer community,” said Pat O’Day, Chief Technology Officer at Bluelock. “We’re pleased to see our partnership and Bluelock’s leading Virtual Datacenter solution directly helping the DevCentral team innovate and collaborate more easily while remaining secure—all in the spirit of building an even better community.”

“F5's DevCentral has been the gold standard for vendor-driven communities to date,” said Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst at ZK Research. “DevCentral allows IT departments to leverage the power of the community to help accelerate and customize data center operations and application support. By migrating DevCentral to a Bluelock cloud environment, F5 has further increased the value of DevCentral by ensuring customers are always working with the latest versions of F5's products and have access to all of F5’s capabilities. This will result in customers being able to leverage F5's technology faster, to a broader set of applications with minimal risk.”

Achieving Cloud Benefits with Assurance of Enterprise Best Practices

Many enterprises have reservations about migrating to the cloud due to security and performance concerns. Regardless of deployment location, websites face heightened risks in today’s multi-vector threat scenarios. Social communities, built on user engagement and interaction, expose even greater threat vectors. The lack of acceleration and optimization services in the cloud can inhibit the deployment of solutions to improve application performance. To address these security and performance risks, DevCentral has employed a multi-faceted security strategy that utilizes F5’s BIG-IP^®Local Traffic Manager^TM with data center firewall services, BIG-IP Application Security Manager^TM, and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager^TM along with the BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager^TM, BIG-IP WebAccelerator^TM, and BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager^TM solutions. Together, these represent an industry first: a true cloud-enabled ADN that delivers the agile benefits of the cloud while leveraging established best practices from the enterprise.

Today, F5 also announced a cloud licensing program that enables enterprise-class ADN solutions in the cloud. Providing a unified architecture for both private and public clouds with virtual editions of its award-winning BIG-IP platform, F5 now offers its advanced ADN solutions in a utility billing model.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5, Access Policy Manager, Application Security Manager, BIG-IP, DevCentral, Global Traffic Manager, Local Traffic Manager, WAN Optimization Manager, and WebAccelerator are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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F5 Expands Market Opportunity with IaaS Cloud Providers

F5 cloud licensing program offers first complete application delivery platform in the cloud

SEATTLE, June 13, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced a new global cloud licensing program developed for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers. The F5^® cloud licensing program offers benefits for IaaS cloud providers, their customers, and channel partners alike. By including virtual editions of BIG-IP^® solutions as part of its cloud licensing program, F5 provides the first complete enterprise-class ADN solution in the cloud.

Additional Resources

• Cloud Licensing Program – Solution Profile
• BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager VE – Product Overview
• BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager – Product Overview
• F5 Partner Resource Center
• F5 Cloud Computing Solutions
• SlideShare Presentation

Enterprise IT customers transitioning to a cloud model are faced with tradeoffs. Cloud providers offering services typically require that IT relinquish control or create a unique management environment for off-premise applications. This often causes friction between the IaaS provider and enterprise IT, with the service provider having difficulty complying with IT’s preference to retain control and ensure that applications are available. Until now, IaaS cloud providers have had to buy the necessary infrastructure to sufficiently address these demands and support their customers. However, this creates an enormous amount of business risk for cloud providers, due to the reluctance of enterprise customers to sign long-term contracts or employ a predictive use model.

With the introduction of its new cloud licensing program, F5 addresses these requirements. Providing a unified architecture for both private and public clouds with virtual editions on its award-winning BIG-IP platform, F5 now offers its advanced ADN solutions in a utility billing model. This enables enterprise customers to leverage the same enterprise-class IT infrastructure that they have in their private clouds, while giving the IaaS cloud provider the ability to better manage their cash flow.

“F5’s new cloud licensing program brings the power of our ADN solutions to the cloud while offering the flexibility of a pay-as-you-go billing model,” said Jason Needham, Sr. Director of Product Management at F5. “Cloud providers can realize significant benefits from participating in this program, including a differentiated service offering, a larger target market, and enhanced revenue opportunities.”

Benefits of F5’s Cloud Licensing Program for IaaS Cloud Providers

The F5 cloud licensing program allows IaaS cloud providers to offer a full range of virtual BIG-IP solutions without incurring additional up-front costs. Additional benefits that IaaS service providers enjoy under the cloud licensing program include:

• Advanced Services on a Complete Application Delivery Platform – IaaS cloud providers are able to branch out from competing solely on a price-per-compute basis and utilize all of F5’s BIG-IP Virtual Edition products to offer advanced ADN services and capabilities.

• Utility Billing Model – F5’s cloud licensing program aligns with the traditional billing model utilized by IaaS cloud providers, where providers only pay for the number of instances in use.

• Spin Up, Spin Down On-Demand – Flexible licensing allows IaaS cloud providers to offer fee-based, real-time ADN services with no up-front costs and no long-term commitment.

The First Complete Application Delivery Network in the Cloud

F5’s cloud licensing program enables the first complete cloud-based ADN stack. With virtual editions of BIG-IP solutions, enterprise customers receive advanced ADN features and services, including application delivery, performance, and security.
With the F5 BIG-IP platform, accessing the cloud is simplified without the impacts of vendor lock-in. IaaS cloud providers have the freedom to select a hypervisor and virtual infrastructure to meet the needs of their enterprise customers. Unlike other vendors, F5 supports both Citrix XenServer and VMware vSphere.
F5 offers access to a wide selection of products to support its new cloud licensing program, including:

• BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ Virtual Edition (VE)
• BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™ VE
• BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ VE
• BIG-IP Access Policy Manager^® (on BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager VE)
• BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager™ VE
• BIG-IP WebAccelerator™ VE
• Enterprise Manager™ VE

The COHESION Cloud Program for F5 Channel Partners

In support of the cloud licensing program, F5 has created a unique channel-specific program, COHESION, which allows traditional channel partners to engage in cloud-specific opportunities and sell a specialized software solution to their qualified customers. Where other cloud licensing programs exclude the channel, under COHESION, F5 channel partners have the opportunity to engage with IaaS cloud providers. Visit F5’s Partner Resource Center for more information regarding COHESION.

F5 also announced today that it has migrated its global online community, DevCentral, to a cloud environment. DevCentral runs F5’s cloud-enabled ADN solution in multiple Bluelock Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, while adhering to IT best practices for scale, control, and security.

“Any time you have a customer that is unsure of the expected volumes or length of a project and wants to rent the infrastructure, we can’t win the deal without a pay-as-you-go business model,” said John Qualls, SVP of Business Development at Bluelock. “The F5 cloud licensing program opens up a lot more opportunity in the market than we have had access to traditionally.”

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5, Access Policy Manager, Application Security Manager, BIG-IP, Enterprise Manager, Global Traffic Manager, Local Traffic Manager, WAN Optimization Manager, and WebAccelerator are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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F5 Enables BT ‘Dual Stack’ Project to be IPv6-Ready

BT prepares for next generation of the Internet

LONDON, June 06, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that BT has implemented the BIG-IP^® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM^®) solution to allow complete translation between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in its existing network.

“We knew we needed to become more accessible to everyone using the Internet, whether they’re an IPv6 user or an IPv4 user, and the F5 solution has allowed us to do that without substantial re-engineering,” said David Osborne, IPv6 Programme Director, BT. “BIG-IP LTM sits in front of the web servers and handles the IPv6 configuration. In addition, the F5 team was very responsive and was able to turn the project around in short order.”

Industry-wide, major operators are looking forward to the next generation of the Internet, ensuring that they are ready forWorld IPv6 Day, taking place on June 6, 2012. From a global perspective, many Asia-based operators have already upgraded their infrastructures to accommodate IPv6, and European providers are now also preparing for their websites to concurrently support both IP address types.

Discussions between BT and F5 began at the start of 2012, with lab testing taking place just over two months ago. The solution has now successfully been implemented and the BIG-IP LTM device has been part of BT’s live network for the past week.

“Our solutions make it easy for organizations to upgrade their infrastructure so that they have an IPv6 address in place,” said John Gorbutt, Account Director, F5 Networks. “The BIG-IP platform was an ideal component of BT’s Dual Stack initiative, which aims to allow both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to run alongside each other.”
“The Dual Stack project is about readiness for the next generation of the Internet, part of which is being IPv6-ready,” concluded Osborne. “F5’s solution helps ensure that web users searching for BT.com on either IP address system will be able to reach us, without restriction.”

To learn more about how F5 can help organizations support IPv6, please visit the company’s World IPv6 Day page athttp://www.f5.com/news-press-events/world-ipv6-day.html.

About BT

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in more than 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to its customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, BT Retail, BT Wholesale and Openreach.

In the year ended 31 March 2012, BT Group’s revenue was £18,897m with profit before taxation of £2,445m.

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. For more information, visit www.btplc.com.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5, BIG-IP, Local Traffic Manager, and LTM are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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F5 Networks Announces Resignation of Mark Anderson

Dave Feringa Appointed Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales

SEATTLE, May 30, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the resignation of Mark Anderson, the company’s Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Mr. Anderson joined the company in October 2004 as Vice President, Americas Sales. The company also announced that Dave Feringa, currently Senior Vice President, Americas Sales, has been appointed to take over for Mr. Anderson as the company’s Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales.

“Mark was a key contributor to our growth and success here at F5. We are very appreciative of Mark’s efforts on behalf of F5 and wish him well in his future endeavors,” said John McAdam, president and chief executive officer at F5. “We are also very pleased that Dave Feringa has accepted this position. Dave is an outstanding sales executive and has done a terrific job managing our largest sales territory which accounts for nearly 60% of our worldwide revenue. Dave is very well respected and has strong support throughout the company.”

Dave Feringa joined F5 in December 2004. He was appointed Regional Vice President of North America for F5 in October 2007 and was promoted to Senior Vice President, Americas Sales in January 2012. Prior to joining F5, Feringa had nearly 20 years of experience as a senior sales and business development executive at technology companies, including serving as a regional sales manager and sales director at Cisco Systems, Inc. and as a vice president at Lucent Technologies. Feringa holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

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F5 to Present at Barclays Capital and Sterne Agee Conferences

SEATTLE, May 21, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that company management will participate in the Barclays Capital Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, 811 Seventh Avenue, and the Sterne Agee Technology Conference at Sentry Centers, 730 Third Avenue, both in New York, N.Y.

F5's presentation at the Barclays Capital conference will begin at 2:15 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 23. The presentation at the Sterne Agee conference will begin at 10:15 a.m. ET on Thursday, May 24. F5 representatives for both conferences will include Jim Ritchings, VP, Business Development, and John Rodriguez, EVP and Chief Accounting Officer.

Direct links to live webcasts will be available at www.f5.com/about/investor-relations/events-calendar.html and archived copies of both will be accessible through June 22, 2012.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

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Application Delivery Heavyweight F5 to Showcase Diameter Signaling Solutions and Expertise at LTE World Summit

With recently acquired Traffix, F5 helps mobile operators reach maximum network performance and easily support advanced LTE services

BARCELONA, May 17, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that it will participate in several conference sessions and host a booth as a Bronze sponsor of the LTE World Summit 2012, taking place May 22–24 at the International Convention Center (CCIB) in Barcelona. F5 will also participate in the conference as a Gold sponsor of the "Handling the Signaling Surge" Focus Day on Tuesday, May 22. Visit F5 at booth #43 to learn more about the compelling business value that F5^® Traffix solutions deliver to Carrier Service Providers.

F5 will highlight several LTE solutions, including F5 Traffix products that manage and control traffic in the data and control planes, which reflect the company's added value as an expert vendor in essential core network services. Solutions such as intelligent traffic steering and Diameter routing in both the data and signaling planes illustrate how F5's service provider solutions deliver optimal network resource management and performance.

"We are very pleased that F5 is contributing its knowledge and years of real-world expertise with IP-based applications, data, and signaling in LTE networks to the LTE World Summit, which has grown exponentially this year as network rollouts are on the rise worldwide," said Giles Cummings, Events Director at Informa. "Handling the explosion of mobile data is a key concern for LTE's operational success."

"As operators deploy LTE across their footprints and migrate their installed base users to LTE devices, they must be ready for the resulting challenges," said Ben Volkow, VP of Product Development at F5 Networks. "Few network infrastructure vendors understand the complexities related to both the data and signaling planes. Given our expertise in IP and Diameter signaling, we're excited to play an active role at this event to help educate and assist operators in successfully overcoming the challenges related to LTE."

F5 Presentations during LTE World Summit's "Handling the Signaling Surge" Focus Day, May 22:

• At 10:00 CEST, F5's Ben Volkow will explain how operators benefit significantly by taking an interoperable and open approach to building their LTE networks. His presentation is entitled "The Benefits of Approaching Diameter as the Nervous System of the Network."
• At 10:30 CEST, F5 Solution Architect Peter Nas will share his knowledge of Diameter during a panel discussion focusing on "What is the Right Time and What is the Right Way to Deploy Diameter Signaling Solutions?"

Additional F5 Presentations during the LTE World Summit:

• On May 23 at 17:40 CEST, in the OTT and Applications track, F5 Solution Architect Bart Salaets will share his expertise in IP solutions during the panel on "Video and Premium Content on LTE Networks."
• On May 24 at 15:30 CEST, in the Handling the Mobile Data Explosion track, F5 Solution Architect Peter Nas will draw on his extensive knowledge of deploying Diameter routing solutions to explain typical LTE use cases such as policy and tiered charging, family data plans, roaming, and related topics.

Visit booth #43 to see how F5 solutions provide a converged carrier infrastructure to help consolidate, enhance, and monetize core infrastructure services. To schedule a meeting, contact Susan Becker at s.becker@f5.com.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5 and the F5 logo are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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F5 Helps Organizations Improve User Experience and Simplify Management with First Integrated SPDY Gateway

News release:

F5 Helps Organizations Improve User Experience and Simplify Management with First Integrated SPDY Gateway

F5’s Application Delivery Optimization (ADO) solutions accelerate applications across public and private clouds to better support remote and mobile users

INTEROP, LAS VEGAS, May 08, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced new application optimization capabilities for its Application Delivery Controller (ADC) product line. With this announcement, F5 is the first ADC vendor to offer integrated support for SPDY, a web protocol designed to optimize the user experience and bolster security. As part of the company’s Dynamic Data Center vision, F5 is extending its leadership in optimizing web-based applications across private, public, and hybrid cloud architectures.

Additional Resources

• F5’s Application Delivery Optimization – SlideShare Presentation
• Application Delivery Optimization – White Paper
• Building a CDN with F5 – White Paper
• Accelerating Mobile Access – F5 Tech Brief
• The “All of the Above” Approach to Improving Application Performance – DevCentral Blog Post
• The HTTP 2.0 War has Just Begun – DevCentral Blog Post
• The Four V’s of Big Data – DevCentral Blog Post

Highlights of today’s announcement also include a number of new front-end optimization capabilities that streamline the delivery of image-heavy content, prioritize traffic to overcome mobile network latency, and offer visibility into application performance across hosted and cloud applications. F5 technologies serve as a strategic point of control for application acceleration, providing insight into the overall context of users, applications, and networks to ensure optimal delivery and avoid costly infrastructure changes.

“Today’s organizations are struggling to ensure a fast user experience within the changing landscape of cloud-based infrastructure and myriad mobile devices,” said Jason Needham, Sr. Director of Product Management. “With F5’s new ADO solutions, customers can optimize any web-based application without the need to spend millions of dollars upgrading their infrastructure or engaging in costly performance tuning.”

F5 technologies apply front-end, network, and data center optimizations in concert to improve overall application performance and enhance the user experience, regardless of device, browser, or location. Today’s announcement adds new technologies to F5’s portfolio such as image optimization, CSS object versioning, and content re-ordering. In addition, F5 solutions now provide an innovative approach for enabling SPDY protocol optimizations for any legacy application. F5’s new centralized application analytics capabilitiesenable streamlined performance monitoring across hybrid cloud environments without deploying or managing additional agents, code, or servers.

Details

Many industry vendors offer products that only address specific performance bottlenecks. Implementing these multiple technologies creates additional complexity and cost, perpetuating the growing problems companies are trying to solve within their data centers. With F5, customers can integrate optimization throughout the application delivery infrastructure, eliminating the need for point products.

Building on the BIG-IP^® product family and the company’s TMOS^® architecture platform, F5 provides easy-to-manage solutions capable of addressing organizations’ needs today and into the future. With the announcement, F5 continues to deliver on its commitment to improving application performance.

Highlights of F5’s new ADO solutions include:

• Industry-Leading Support for SPDY Protocol

SPDY is an emerging web protocol that augments HTTP. Developed by Google, this protocol improves application performance up to 50 percent by enabling multiple data transfers within a single connection, as well as through compression, and client prioritization for enabled browsers like Chrome and Firefox. Historically, organizations needed to update their web server infrastructure to take advantage of SPDY’s performance improvements, adding cost and complexity to their systems. With F5’s SPDY Gateway, companies can take advantage of these performance improvements without updating their web application server infrastructure. F5 delivers this capability by translating SPDY requests into HTTP on the back end.

• Front-End Optimization Capabilities that Enhance User Experience and Save Money

Users have come to expect mobile performance that is equivalent or better than that achieved on a typical desktop computer. However, mobile devices present unique challenges due to limitations of processing power, small screens, a variety of operating systems and browsers, and the latency and packet loss introduced by mobile networks. By understanding and addressing these factors comprehensively, F5 provides a superior experience for mobile and remote users with the delivery of image optimization, CSS object versioning, and content re-ordering.

According to HTTP Archive, images represent over 60 percent of content of a typical web page. F5’s advanced image optimization solution recognizes the user’s access environment and streamlines image delivery by adjusting image size appropriately for mobile devices, removing unnecessary metadata from the transmission, and converting the image format. Internal testing demonstrates F5’s image optimization reduces the size of images by up to 50 percent. This reduces page load times, as well as bandwidth needs and costs.

• Visibility into Application Performance across Hosted and Cloud Infrastructures

F5’s Enterprise Manager™ Centralized Analytics Module helps customers monitor and understand application performance across multiple data centers without adding agents, code, or servers. This single view of relevant statistics provides critical visibility, enabling customers to monitor performance, identify potential bottlenecks, and better plan for IT needs. By providing real-time application performance metrics—such as application response time, network latency, and connection statistics—as well as diagnostic and troubleshooting information for each BIG-IP device, Enterprise Manager further quantifies the benefits of using F5’s optimization technologies.

Supporting Quotes

“An increasing number of enterprise applications require improved user experience if they are going to meet the expectations of external users and employees,” said Mark Fabbi, VP, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner. “Because of the heightened demands and complexities of mobile devices, cloud services, and application environments, enterprises are demanding more comprehensive solutions for web performance optimization.”

“Our business focuses exclusively on government and healthcare organizations—customers that depend on optimized application access to meet mission-critical service needs,” said Jim Sweeney, CTO at GTSI. “To ensure a positive user experience from any location or device type, our teams must be able to elegantly combine optimization technologies with other best-in-class application services. F5’s new ADO solutions provide significant advantages for customers looking to scale their infrastructures for remote and mobile users. In addition, we’re glad to see F5’s support for SPDY, as it will make it easier for organizations adopting the protocol to realize performance gains.”

Availability

The F5 technologies described in this announcement will be made available along with the company’s BIG-IP version 11.2 software in the second quarter of calendar year 2012. For more information about F5’s optimization solutions, please visit www.f5.com/solutions/acceleration/.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5, BIG-IP, Enterprise Manager, and DevCentral are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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