[December 13, 2010]

F5 Networks and Swedish Medical Center Spread Holiday Cheer

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced its support of Swedish Pediatric Unit's annual "Holidays at the Hospital" event on Sunday, December 19. The celebration will feature holiday-themed games and festivities, local celebrities, and a gift drive for children receiving care and treatment at the hospital.

"F5 is proud to support Swedish in reaching out to the Seattle community this holiday season," said Dan Matte, SVP of Marketing and Business Development at F5 Networks (News - Alert). "Through our company's charitable giving program, F5 Connects, we encourage employees to become more involved with organizations that have a positive impact on our local neighborhoods and beyond. Swedish's 'Holidays at the Hospital' event is a great opportunity for our employees and their families to help others in need."

"We're excited to partner with F5 to help brighten the holidays of our patients in pediatric care as well as their families," said Dan Dixon, Swedish VP of External Affairs. "Companies like F5 make it possible for us to host special events for the extended Swedish community, and we're thrilled to be able to supplement our traditional health services with additional programs to enhance the overall care our patients receive."

Details

The "Holidays at the Hospital" event takes place on Sunday, December 19, at Swedish Medical Center's First Hill campus. Highlights of the festive celebration include:

• Holiday-themed games for children and adults
• Special appearances by Santa and Mrs. Claus
• Meet-and-greet with professional soccer player Kasey Keller
• A raffle to benefit Swedish Pediatric Specialty Care

As part of its support for Swedish, F5 Networks has also set up Giving Trees at its Seattle headquarters to give employees the option of contributing gifts or donations throughout the holiday season.

To learn more about Swedish's Pediatrics program, go to www.swedish.org/Services/Pediatric-Specialty-Care. If you'd like to make a donation to the Pediatrics program at Swedish, please visit www.swedishfoundation.org.

About Swedish

Established in 1910, Swedish has grown over the last 100 years to become the largest, most comprehensive non-profit health provider in the Greater Seattle area with 8,500 employees, 3,000 physicians and 1,200 volunteers. It is comprised of four hospital campuses-First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard and Edmonds-a freestanding emergency department and ambulatory care center in Issaquah, Swedish Visiting Nurse Services, and Swedish Medical Group-a network of more than 40 primary-care and specialty clinics located throughout the Puget Sound area. In fall 2009, Swedish broke ground on a new medical office building and hospital in the Issaquah Highlands, as well as an emergency department and medical office building in Ballard. More recently, Swedish announced plans to open freestanding emergency department and ambulatory care center facilities in Mill Creek and Redmond. In addition to general medical and surgical care, Swedish is known as a regional referral center, providing specialized treatment in areas such as cardiovascular care, cancer care, neuroscience, orthopedics, high-risk obstetrics, pediatric specialties, organ transplantation and clinical research. For more information, visit www.swedish.org and www.swedish100.org.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5's flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate true business value. F5's vision of unified application and data delivery offers customers an unprecedented level of choice in how they deploy ADN solutions. It redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources, streamlining application delivery and reducing costs. Global enterprise organizations, service and cloud providers, and Web 2.0 content providers trust F5 to keep their business moving forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

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