"Despite weakness in the global economy, demand for the BIG-IP 3600 in particular was much stronger than we initially anticipated," McAdam said. "During the month of September alone BIG-IP 3600 sales exceeded our initial forecast for the entire quarter, resulting in more orders than we could ship during the quarter."

McAdam also said the company saw continued strong demand for VIPRION, the high-end of its BIG-IP product family, among large enterprises and internet content and service providers.

During the quarter, the company's balance sheet continued to strengthen. Cash flow from operations exceeded $50 million. After purchasing an additional $50 million of F5 stock, the company ended the quarter with cash and investments in excess of $450 million.

Conference Call Today

F5 will host a conference call today at 5:30 a.m. Pacific (8:30 a.m. Eastern) to discuss its preliminary fourth quarter results.

DIAL-IN NUMBERS: 800-857-3834 (US & Canada); +1-210-839-8222 (International)

CALL LEADER: John McAdam

PASSCODE: F5 NETWORKS

Please call in 10 minutes ahead of time to ensure a proper connection. If you have any problems or questions, please call F5 NETWORKS, INC. (206) 272-5555.

To listen to the live webcast, go to http://www.f5.com/about/investor-relations/events-calendar.html and click on the webcast URL for today's call.

Conference Call Replays

TELEPHONE REPLAY: Available October 7, 2008 (from 7:30 a.m. Pacific) through October 8, 2008 (until 5:00 p.m. Pacific)

DIAL-IN NUMBERS: 866-386-1297 (US & Canada); + 1-203-369-0399 (International)

INTERNET REPLAY: Available until October 22, 2008

http://www.f5.com/about/investor-relations/events-calendar.html

The company will report final results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 in its regularly scheduled earnings release and conference call on Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Call-in numbers and webcast information are available at http://www.f5.com/about/investor-relations/events-calendar.html.

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. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications and optimize the data storage layer, F5 extends the power of intelligent networking to all levels of application delivery. F5's extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimization, protects the application and the network, and delivers application reliability. Over 16,000 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.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this press release concerning the continuing strength of F5's business, sequential growth, the target revenue and earnings range, share amount and share price assumptions, demand for application delivery networking and storage virtualization products and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions and other factors that, if they do not fully materialize or prove correct, could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: customer acceptance of our new traffic management, security, application delivery, WAN optimization and storage virtualization offerings; the timely development, introduction and acceptance of additional new products and features by F5 or its competitors; competitive pricing pressures; increased sales discounts; F5's ability to sustain, develop and effectively utilize distribution relationships; F5's ability to attract, train and retain qualified product development, marketing, sales, professional services and customer support personnel; F5's ability to expand in international markets; the unpredictability of F5's sales cycle; the share repurchase program; future prices of F5's common stock; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. F5 assumes no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements.

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"Customers continue to ask us for simpler and more efficient ways to track and manage their critical data to maintain business continuity, and the advent of virtualization and virtual machine mobility has only magnified that need," said Harry Petty, director of Marketing for the Brocade Server Division. "As the world leader in connecting businesses to their data, Brocade is pleased to align with Microsoft to deliver management solutions that are easy to deploy and that meet the highest levels of quality of service and return on investment in today's dynamic IT environment."

Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center interoperates directly with Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO), a feature of Virtual Machine Manager 2008, to offer expanded visibility and dynamic management of virtualized infrastructures beyond the confines of the server and into the shared storage network. PRO's real-time monitoring and remedial capabilities enable IT organizations to act upon an event that is impacting performance or a pending failure in the storage network, ultimately helping them to optimize application performance, seamlessly connect data, and unify management of their information assets.

The Brocade solution is built on the innovative Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture and HBA management capabilities to help bridge the "virtualization management gap" and empowers organizations to make informed decisions about where to place, migrate, or reconfigure applications, hardware, and virtual machines. Brocade offers a comprehensive portfolio of data center networking products delivering superior performance, reliability and ease of use versus competitors.

"We are pleased to align with Brocade in their delivery of new capabilities which integrate with the end-to-end virtualization management solutions provided by System Center to simplify infrastructure management and provide powerful new capabilities to the dynamic, virtualized data center," said Zane Adam, senior director of integrated virtualization at Microsoft.

For more information on how Brocade is aligning with Microsoft to deliver dynamic management solutions for virtualized IT environments visit us at http://www.brocade.com/msvirt.

About Brocade

Brocade is the leading provider of data center networking solutions that help organizations connect, share, and manage their information in the most efficient manner. Organizations that use Brocade products and services are better able to optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data management. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at http://www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com.

Brocade, the B-wing symbol, DCX, Fabric OS, File Lifecycle Manager, MyView, and StorageX are registered trademarks, and DCFM and SAN Health are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of, and are used to identify, products or services of their respective owners.

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Taking advantage of Japan's rich history of custom development, members of the Tokyo co-innovation lab will focus on identifying opportunities to address pressing business needs, including enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) adoption, green IT and virtualization techniques to assist with enterprise software implementation. The SAP Co-Innovation Lab Tokyo is endorsed by the following partners: ABeam Consulting Ltd., Dell Japan Inc., FUJITSU LIMITED, F5 Networks Japan K.K., HITACHI, Ltd., IBM Business Consulting Services K.K., IBM Japan, Ltd., Intel Corporation, Microsoft Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Information Systems Corporation, NEC Corporation, NetApp K.K., REALTECH JAPAN Co., Ltd., Sun Microsystems K.K., Tecnos Japan Inc., Toyo Business Engineering Corporation and VMware K.K.

"Japan is recognized as the leader in the world for high-value technology," said Yoichiro Yatsurugi, president and CEO, SAP Japan. "The SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Tokyo will be a hub, where SAP Japan and partners can prototype and showcase solutions with the newest technology to meet the specific needs of Japanese customers, as well as introduce innovative ideas from Japan to the world."

The SAP Co-Innovation Lab will focus on utilizing a global talent pool and fostering collaboration on projects based around a simulated heterogeneous data center integrating hardware and infrastructure software from the participating vendors. To best meet the needs of companies in today's global environment, the lab's work will re-create real-world situations on Web- enabled and Internet- or intranet-accessible business applications.

As part of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab Tokyo launch, two engagements have already delivered results, exemplifying the rapid benefits that co-innovation can deliver.

Reducing IT-Related Energy Consumption

Intel Corporation and SAP have been cooperating closely worldwide, and, in Japan, their collaboration focuses on so-called "green IT" projects. Green IT is a key topic in Japan, a country that has initiated many environmental campaigns. In the facility that today becomes the SAP Co-Innovation Lab Tokyo, Intel and SAP have completed a green IT-related validation effort focused on identifying opportunities to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions with enterprise solutions.

Using servers powered by Quad Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors that replace older, single-core processors, total energy consumption related to the use of SAP(R) ERP was reduced by more than 50 percent. These energy consumption measurements used SAP ERP load cycles simulating 24 hours of server usage, including daily dialog processing and night batch job processing running under absolutely comparable conditions. These results are being made available to the public for the first time, which will help customers make more intelligent investment decisions.

"We welcome the opening of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Tokyo," said Kaz Yoshidaco-president, Intel K.K. "Intel new multicore processor products based on Intel(R) 45nm High-k silicon process technology are eco-friendly processors with high performance and excellent power efficiency. We expect that the co- innovation lab will accelerate the R&D of eco-friendly and innovative solutions on an Intel-based platform that meet the needs of customers in Japan. We also expect that the efforts of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab Tokyo will help business development."

Speeding Time to Value for ERP Upgrades

Together with VMware Japan, SAP used the lab setting to identify the advantages of employing virtualization in SAP ERP upgrade projects using servers equipped with multi-core Intel processors. The one-month project proved that unifying existing servers into a virtual environment is possible through upgrade, and that system-proving activities can be done more easily utilizing VMware solutions. The result of this project was a white paper that partners and customers can use as a guide to achieving advantages throughout the upgrade process. As adoption of SAP ERP continues to build, SAP and partners are providing relevant tools and solutions that enable companies to take advantage of opportunities to improve business processes within the implementation process, enabling them to more rapidly deliver benefits to the business.

Inagural Co-Innovation Lab Exemplifies Success

Opened in June 2007, SAP's inaugural co-innovation lab in Palo Alto, California has demonstrated continuous success in innovation. With projects covering topics such as enterprise collaboration, SOA management, disaster recovery for SAP environments and business performance management, SAP and its lab partners have identified numerous solutions to address specific customer needs (see June 18, 2008 press release, titled "Ground-Breaking Projects Emerging from SAP Co-Innovation Lab Address Today's Pressing Business Challenges").

"The addition of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Tokyo exemplifies the reach and power of the SAP ecosystem," said Zia Yusuf, executive vice president, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP. "It is a natural fit for Japan, a global leader in technological innovations, to be the location of our second co-innovation lab. The region's traditionally strong focus on custom development makes it a prime location for co-innovation with customers and partners, which can be delivered to SAP's global customer base. We are proud of our recognized spirit of collaboration."

About SAP

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software(*), offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 47,800 customers (excludes customers from the acquisition of Business Objects) in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol "SAP." (For more information, visit http://www.sap.com)

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