New F5 Advantage Partner Program Delivers Enhanced Opportunity Lifecycle Management Support; Provides BIG-IP(R) Online Deal Registration and Unique Partner Portal Functionality for F5 Gold Advantage Partners.

SEATTLE -- F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced a new F5 Advantage Partner Program designed to provide help its channel partners generate more opportunities and greater revenue on F5 BIG-IP(R) Application Delivery Networking solutions. The program is supported by tools including a new Web-based partner portal that features a mechanism designed to ensure that both the partner and F5 Networks are exchanging current customer information in a real time environment. Additionally, the program features new online BIG-IP deal registration for partners at all levels of the Advantage Partner Program: Authorized, Premier and Gold.

The new Gold Partner Portal is designed to support channel partners from lead generation through the sale and beyond. It allows Gold channel partners to receive leads generated by F5 and related customer data via the Partner Portal and register both these deals as well as their own opportunities. The Gold Partner Portal also features a business planning module designed to help partners develop and manage opportunities to increase product and value-added service revenues.

"Most vendors talk about being 'channel-friendly,' but F5 is actually executing on its commitment to the channel with this new program," said David Lesser, President and CTO of Nexum, Inc. "No other vendor in any space is as tightly coupled to its channel partners as F5. This means we are truly driving opportunities from one single information source together with F5, which helps us help the customer by giving the customer a total solution -- installation, services, add-on modules and related products. We get more leads, more scope and support to work the deal and, ultimately more business at a better margin."

With the new deal registration feature, any BIG-IP opportunity evaluated by F5's dedicated channel sales managers is immediately assigned to a channel partner, who has the option to 'register' the deal through F5's Partner Resource Center. Registered deals provide the partner with exclusive access to the opportunity for an initial period of time (with optional renewal) and qualify for additional discounts. It is available to participating partners at all levels of the F5 Advantage Partner Program as a part of the Partner Resource Center at http://www.f5.com/partners/.

"The F5 vision of seamless integration for our products also applies to how we want to work with our channel," said Dean Darwin, Vice President of North American channel sales for F5. "This is a new architecture for our channel programs and our goal is to continue to add components that protect and support our partners across the entire opportunity management lifecycle. F5 partners are a select group and we're confident that this program will help them grow their F5 business, make it more profitable, and make it easier to deliver the best solutions to our joint customers."

With the launch of this program, F5 is also transitioning one-day installation opportunities to its qualified channel partners, a change designed to provide partners with more service revenue opportunities and to enable them to build stronger relationships with end-user customers.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast and available for everyone, helping organizations get the most out of their investment. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications, F5 optimizes applications and allows them to work faster and consume fewer resources. F5's extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimization, protection for the application and the network, and delivers application reliability -- all on one universal platform. Over 9,000 organizations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide. For more information go to www.f5.com.

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