F5 Networks' 3-DNS Controller Wins Network Computing's Prestigious Well-Connected Award
LAS VEGAS, May 10, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
NetWorld Interop 2000
3-DNS(R) Tops Electronic Commerce Category and Recognized as the Best Distributed Load Balancing
Product
F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV), the leading provider of Internet traffic andcontent management (iTCM)
products, today announced that CMP Media, Inc. hasnamed the 3-DNS Controller the best distributed load
balancing product under thecategory of Electronic Commerce solutions.
F5 Networks received the esteemed award during Network Computing's annualWell-Connected Awards
ceremony on May 8, during NetWorld Interop in Las Vegas.F5's 3-DNS was chosen, over competing
products from Alteon and Radware, for itsability to enable businesses to dynamically tune their distributed
Internet siteto render optimal performance and Quality of Service to end users -- no matterwhere they are in
the world.
"Network Computing's recognition of 3-DNS is particularly noteworthy because ofthe judges' critical
hands-on evaluation process," said Marc Goodman, SeniorDirector of Marketing at F5 Networks. "This
award points to 3-DNS as a keycomponent of any global e-Business infrastructure where 24X7 availability
andtop web site performance is a must. It's also a testament to F5's commitment todeliver the industry's
most innovative and advanced iTCM products."
About the 3-DNS Controller
3-DNS is the most open and robust product for managing traffic acrossdistributed Internet sites in the
market today. 3-DNS offers powerfulfunctionality important to any business that relies on the Internet to
supportits geographically distributed Internet sites. By employing industry-firste-Business rules, 3-DNS can
adjust its own operations based on a number ofcustomer-defined parameters, such as time of day or
specific operatingconditions. There is no other product of its kind that has 3-DNS' flexibilityand level of
intelligence; helping businesses maximize their e-Businessperformance and Quality of Service, on a global
scale.
"The Well-Connected Awards are significantly different from other ITpublications' awards," said Fritz Nelson,
Publisher of CMP's Network Computing."Our editors worked at length to research and test the best offerings
in theenterprise arena." According to Nelson, the products singled out in the NetworkComputing
Well-Connected Awards are unique because "they are not a measure ofpopularity -- they are quality
offerings tested over a networked enterprisefirsthand by editors themselves. So we know that 3-DNS by F5
Networks is trulyan innovative solution."
Network Computing (www.networkcomputing.com) published by CMP Media, Manhasset,N.Y., is the only IT
publication providing in-depth, comprehensive product,technology and service reviews from a real-world
perspective to 220,000 ITProfessionals -- The Technology Experts -- biweekly telling them what works, howit
works, when to buy and who to buy it from. In addition, Network Computingconsistently has the largest
average-issue audience among all networkingpublications, according to Simmons and IntelliQuest and was
a 1999 Neal AwardFinalist.
About F5 Networks
F5 Networks is the leading provider of Internet Traffic and Content Management(iTCM) products. The
Company's integrated suite of high-performance productsautomatically and intelligently manage Internet
traffic and content to improvethe availability and performance of mission-critical Internet servers
andapplications. F5 Networks helps companies avoid the risk of being burdened withill-performing networks
that do not meet end user expectations, while enablingnetwork administrators to better control and predict
the performance of theirinfrastructure. F5 Networks' products are designed to provide a new level offault
tolerance by shielding users from system failure; optimizing responsetimes to user requests and data flow;
and cost-effectively managing anorganization's Internet infrastructure. The company is headquartered in
Seattle,Washington, and has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Columbus, LosAngeles, New
York, San Francisco, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Australia, HongKong, Japan, The Netherlands, Singapore,
Sweden and the United Kingdom. F5Networks is located on the web at www.f5.com.
F5 Networks (Nasdaq:FFIV) Internet Traffic Management products support a widerange of operating
systems and hardware platforms including those from: DELLComputer (Nasdaq:DELL), 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-basedapplications, including legacy host, mainframe, Java, CORBA-based, andclient/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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actual results coulddiffer materially from those anticipated in these statements based upon a numberof
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