F5 Positioned as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers for Fifth Consecutive Time

SEATTLE – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), published October 30, 2013. This position constitutes the fifth consecutive “Leaders” placement for F5 Networks in this evaluation.

“Businesses and service providers all over the world rely on F5 to keep their applications and infrastructure up and running throughout security threats and huge surges in data and application traffic,” said Dean Darwin, Senior Vice President of Marketing at F5 Networks. “We’re proud that our team’s leadership, hard work and vision have continued to be recognized with our fifth consecutive ‘Leaders’ position in the ADC Magic Quadrant. We will continue to invest and innovate in ways that can make it easier for our customers to quickly deploy applications and services across their networks – whether they live in the data center or the cloud.”

Gartner describes the application delivery controller as “a key component within enterprise data center architectures. Data center architects should evaluate ADCs based on how well they integrate with a wide variety of applications, and how well they support more advanced features.”1

¹ Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers,” Mark Fabbi, Neil Rickard, Bjarne Munch, Andrew Lerner, 30 October 2013

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About F5

F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) makes apps go faster, smarter, and safer for the world’s largest businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands. F5 delivers cloud and security solutions that enable organizations to embrace the application infrastructure they choose without sacrificing speed and control. For more information, go to f5.com. You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on LinkedIn and Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technologies.

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