Future Com named 2012 Agility Award winner by F5

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACTS: Alane MoranHolly HagermanF5 NetworksConnect Public Relations206/272-6850 801/373-7888a.moran@f5.comhollyh@connectpr.comF5 Announces Winners of 2012 Agility Customer and Partner AwardsMLB Network, Rackspace Hosting, and Future Com, Ltd. named 2012 Agility award winnersNEW YORK, JULY 24, 2012 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader inApplication Delivery Networking, today announced the winners of the 2012 F5 Agility Awards,celebrating creativity, business value, and innovation with F5 ® solutions. This year’s winnersinclude MLB Network, Rackspace Hosting ® , and Future Com, Ltd. The awards were announcedduring F5’s Agility Summit 2012, taking place July 23–25 in New York.“We congratulate this year’s winners of the F5 Agility Awards,” said Dave Feringa, EVP ofWorldwide Sales at F5. “MLB Network, Rackspace Hosting, and Future Com, Ltd. are clearexamples of how enterprises can evolve and enhance their businesses with F5 solutions. Wecelebrate their innovation during the Agility Summit 2012, where we’ll focus on how applicationdelivery technologies provide the enabling architecture for customers and partners to rethink theirapproach 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 andpartners are in attendance at this year’s event.Agility Summit 2012 platinum sponsors include HP, WhiteHat Security, and Carahsoft. Goldsponsors of the event include Avnet, Cenzic, Ingram Micro, Oracle, Payoda, SecureAuth, Splunk,and Westcon.

2012 F5 Agility Awards: CustomersMLB Network and Rackspace Hosting have been named winners of the 2012 F5 Agility Awardsfor customers.• MLB NetworkMLB Network is Major League Baseball’s national cable television network, telecasting livegames 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, includingAll-Star Games and the World Series, providing load balancing services and securing connectionsto 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 forover three years.“F5 is a go-to technology partner for MLB Network,” said Cindy Cortell, Director of IT for MLBNetwork. “During the initial launch of the network, we relied on F5 products to ensure that ouron-air and mission-critical applications were live and working as intended. F5 solutions havebeen easy to configure, deploy, and implement, and we’ve enjoyed 100 percent uptime with noissues. We’re pleased to accept this award as it recognizes MLB Network’s record-setting launchand our ability to ensure the best possible experience for viewers.”• Rackspace HostingRackspace Hosting is a service leader in cloud computing. Given that many of Rackspace’scustomers have both dedicated managed hosting and cloud hosting environments, Rackspaceaimed to create a solution that bridged both environments. With the help of F5’s ApplicationDelivery 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 whenneeded. Using BIG-IP LTM and F5’s iControl ® functionality, Rackspace was able to reduce thedevelopment time of RackConnect to only three months.

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 ReleaseAbout F5 NetworksF5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps theworld’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloudcomputing, and on-demand IT. F5 ® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to providegreater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and giveusers seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops andsmart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policiesat “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 productsgive customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deployscalable 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 theirIT 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 aboutF5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, pleasevisit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.F5, BIG-IP, Edge Gateway, iControl, Local Traffic Manager, LTM, and WebAccelerator aretrademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All otherproduct and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.This press release may contain forward looking statements relating to future events or future financialperformance that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements can be identified by terminology such as"may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," or"continue," or the negative of such terms or comparable terms. These statements are only predictions andactual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these statements based upon a number offactors including those identified in the company’s filings with the SEC.# # #