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Chungnam National University Enhances Web Course Registration Site Performance with F5

F5's BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ enables Chungnam National University to reduce course registration time from 4 hours to 15-20 minutes

Seoul, June 12, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Chungnam National University has chosen the F5 BIG-IP 6400 Local Traffic Manager to ensure high availability, fast and secure delivery of information, resulting in quicker download speeds and enhanced user experience for its Web Course Registration Site.

Prior to implementing the F5 solution, Chungnam National University had an average of about 20,000 students encountering service delays and/or difficulties accessing the website daily. The university had relied on adding servers to address the traffic problem but was unable to meet anticipated increases in usage and traffic volumes. Following a number of tests, Chungnam National University selected a high availability deployment of the F5 BIG-IP 6400 Local Traffic Managers, along with HTTP Compression and RAM caching to help manage and streamline traffic across Wide Area Networks (WAN) and Internet links.

"We have selected BIG-IP LTM as it showed completely stable and reliable performance in BMT before actual deployment. Now with F5's BIG-IP LTM, we are able to enhance download speed by over 250% and, at the same time, reduce server traffic by 30-40%. It only takes average of 15-20 minutes versus the 4 hours previously to register for a web course," said Ji Doo-Sun, member of the Information Network Management Team of Information and Communication Department of Chungnam National University. "We can also secure the servers for course registration from external security threats through its Web security functions."

"BIG-IP LTM can help to raise the level of the service for customers by enabling intelligent application delivery and reducing server traffic," said Nam Duck-Woo, Country Manger of F5 Networks Korea. "A lot of organizations including universities, e-ticketing sites for culture events, hospitals, airports and even railways, that rely on online business transactions and are impacted by seasonal peak periods can benefit from BIG-IP LTM for better business."

Chungnam National University

Chungnam National University founded in 1952 has been getting the best reputation in middle part of Korea. Now it is making efforts in each field under the objective '100 Global Universities.'

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.f5apac.com.

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F5 Networks
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F5 Networks Korea
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