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F5 Rated As "Outstanding" In Best Companies Workplace Engagement Survey

London, UK February 9, 2009 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Best Companies, the name behind The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For lists, rates F5 in the UK as an "outstanding" place to work. Following a nationwide survey involving nearly 170,000 employees from 795 companies, F5 earned Two Star Status accreditation based on the Best Companies "Michelin style" rating system.

"I would like to congratulate F5 Networks on their outstanding achievement", said Jonathan Austin, Founder and CEO of Best Companies. "Our role at Best Companies is to set a rigorous benchmark so that organisations can become even better employers. This year it is encouraging to see that the number of companies entering the accreditation scheme for excellence in workplace engagement has grown by over twenty percent."

"This was the first time F5 entered the Best Companies survey, so we're delighted and proud to have earned such a high level of accreditation", said Sam Edwards, Human Resources Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at F5. "Going forward, we aim to build in the accreditation process and results as yardsticks of our progress in creating a rewarding and productive workplace for F5ers. We're aiming to place even higher in the 2010 survey".

F5 provides a comprehensive and flexible range of employee benefits, offered as a "pick-your-own" list to suit individual employees. Benefits available include private healthcare and dentistry, preferential share ownership in the company, childcare vouchers, gym membership and the ability to "purchase" extra days off as holiday.

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 to 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 optimizes applications, delivers application reliability, and protects the application and network. Enterprise organizations, service providers and Web 2.0 content 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.f5networks.co.uk.

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