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Jinhak Offers Enhanced University Online Application System Performance with F5

F5's BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ enables Jinhak to ensure fast and stable online application service

Seoul, September 10, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Jinhak has chosen the F5 BIG-IP 6800 Local Traffic Manager to ensure high availability, fast and secure delivery of information, resulting in quicker and enhanced user experience for its university online application service.

Jinhak gets an average of 500,000-600,000 students encountering delays and/or difficulties while accessing the university's online applications service over a 4-5 day period. The institution needed a solution that would provide high-availability load balancing, ensure that applications are always available, accelerate application performance, ensure that priority applications are served first, and ensure security.

To address the increase in traffic volume during enrolment period and protect server from Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attacks, Jinhak needs to ensure L4 functions as well as security of L7 level. After testing several vendors' L4-7 switches, Jinhak finally selected F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager because of its superior performance of load balancing and key benefits. Jinhak installed four BIG-IP 6800 appliances which efficiently addressed the traffic volume during online application period and blocked out harmful traffic such as Dos/DDos.

F5's BIG-IP appliances not only offer easy and convenient user experience through Web management interface of iRules but also direct and fast help through user-centered DevCentral community.

"F5 BIG-IP LTM showed stable and reliable performance and features that are superior to other vendors' solutions. We can easily manage our network by tapping onto iRules and use DevCentral to help troubleshoot when problems occurred," said Kim Soo-Il, the manager of development team of Jinhak. "Since implementing F5's BIG-IP LTM, we have been able to ensure that the university online application service is stable and smooth for applicants."

"Many service organizations that rely on online business transactions are impacted by seasonal peaks are seeking a solution to help manage traffic volume and optimize application performance," said Nam Duck-Woo, Country Manger of F5 Networks Korea. "Such organizations can benefit from BIG-IP LTM as it helps to raise the level of the service for customers by enabling intelligent application delivery and reducing server traffic."

About Jinhak

Jinhak founded in 1965 has the biggest university online application system, Jinhak.com offering various university application information services including university online application service to students.

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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Tina Chee
F5 Networks
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e-mail: t.chee@f5.com		 Yang Kyung-Yoon
F5 Networks Korea
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e-mail: e.park@f5.com		 Bruce Hong / Addy Shin
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