Channel Resellers Select F5 Networks To Provide Their Clients With Business-Critical Internet Solutions.

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2000

Over twenty companies in the last quarter chose F5 Networks, the

market leader in Internet traffic and content management products

F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV) today announced that in fourth quarter of 1999, over twenty resellers, including The Allied Group, Inc. and AppliedTheory, have chosen to become authorized resellers of F5 Networks' products and services. F5 Networks is the leading provider of Internet traffic and content management products.

F5 products, including the BIG/ip(R) Controller, the 3DNS(R) Controller, the global/SITE(TM) Controller, and the see/IT(TM) Network Manager, enable consistent and reliable access to business-critical Internet sites while providing resellers with high-margin, value-added solutions for their clients. For many organizations, web sites are playing an increasingly important role in conducting daily business; for e-commerce companies, high availability and performance is vital. As such, resellers are turning to F5 for best-of-breed products that will help enable them to support their customers' need for web site integrity.

&uot;Our customers require products that enable them to deliver high availability and optimal performance through their web sites,&uot; said Mike Fox, Business Development Manager of The Allied Group, Inc. &uot;We chose F5 because we believe that they are one of the industry leaders in the Internet traffic and content management market. F5 has a proven track record of delivering leading products that provide stability and reliability for web sites.&uot;

The Allied Group is an integrator of high-end, customized technology solutions for Fortune 1000 and Dot.com companies. The Company specializes in providing systems integration, networking, data management, and application development services to improve and complement their customers' existing technological investments with a focus on e-Business success.

&uot;Our clients view reliability and consistent end user access to their websites as mission-critical to their long-term survivability,&uot; said Luis Fiallo, Vice-President of Network Products and Services at AppliedTheory. &uot;Online users are intolerant of web sites that are slow, unavailable, or deliver the wrong content. F5 products help keep our clients' sites running optimally, ensuring the best possible user experience and maximum return on investment.&uot;

AppliedTheory offers a strategic vision to companies and public sector organizations seeking everything from simple Internet access to sophisticated large-scale, Internet-based application development. AppliedTheory's integrated solutions are tailored to the customers' needs with an emphasis on customer support and service. Together with its strategic business partners, AppliedTheory implements a broad range of best-of-breed services nationwide, including e-business, needs assessment and security consulting, dedicated web hosting and access, Virtual Private Network implementation, enterprise portal development, database integration and administration, and ongoing end-to-end support.

&uot;The growing number of high quality channel resellers that F5 is partnering with is testament to the increasing market demand for best-of-breed Internet traffic and content management products,&uot; said Tom Pettigrew, Vice-President of Corporate Development at F5 Networks. &uot;F5 is committed to providing its partners with industry leading service, support, and a variety of training options to help them succeed in selling and supporting F5 products.&uot;

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks is a leader in Internet Traffic and Content Management products. The Company's integrated suite of high-performance products automatically and intelligently manage Internet traffic and content to improve the availability and performance of mission-critical Internet servers and applications. F5 Networks helps companies avoid the risk of being burdened with ill-performing networks that do not meet end user expectations, while enabling network administrators to better control and predict the performance of their infrastructure. F5 Networks' products are designed to provide a new level of fault tolerance by shielding users from system failure; optimizing response times to user requests and data flow; and cost-effectively managing an organization's Internet infrastructure. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Columbus, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, The Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden and the United Kingdom. F5 Networks is located on the web at www.f5.com.

F5 Networks (Nasdaq:FFIV) Internet Traffic Management products support a wide range of operating systems and hardware platforms including those from: Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW), Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HWP), Compaq (NYSE:CPQ), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL), IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Intel (Nasdaq:INTC). F5 products work with leading IP-based applications, including legacy host, mainframe, Java, CORBA-based, and client/server applications from vendors such as SAP (NYSE:SAP), BAAN (Nasdaq:BAANF), Novell (Nasdaq:NOVL), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT).

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