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F5 Networks named a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers for 10th consecutive year


Johannesburg, 01 Dec 2016

F5 Networks has again been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), published 29 August 2016.

"We would like to congratulate F5 on celebrating a decade in the Leaders quadrant, providing our African customers with a modern threat mitigation platform that provides complete protection from the bottom to the top of the network stack," says Anton Jacobsz, managing director at Networks Unlimited.

Networks Unlimited, a value-added distributor of converged technology, data centre, networking, and security technology solutions distribute F5 solutions throughout Africa.

Ben Gibson, EVP and chief marketing officer at F5, points out: "With cloud and as-a-service offerings joining hybrid deployments at the forefront of the market, it's an exciting time in the ADC space. We believe F5's standing in the Magic Quadrant over time mirrors the value customers see in our technology and services portfolio, with differentiated capabilities across software and hardware solutions."

In describing the market, Gartner states, "Application delivery controllers (ADCs) provide functions that optimise delivery of enterprise applications across the enterprise network. ADCs provide functionality for both user-to-application and application-to-application traffic, and effectively bridge the gap between the application and underlying protocols and traditional packet-based networks." 1

The complete 2016 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers report can be accessed by going to: http://oak.ctx.ly/r/505i6

1Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers," Andrew Lerner, Joe Skorupa, Danilo Ciscato, 29 August 2016

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F5

F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world. F5 helps organisations seamlessly scale cloud, data centre, telecommunications, and software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully deliver applications and services to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions broaden the reach of IT through an open, extensible framework and a rich partner ecosystem of leading technology and orchestration vendors. This approach lets customers pursue the infrastructure model that best fits their needs over time. The world's largest businesses, service providers, government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of cloud, security, and mobility trends. For more information, go to f5.com.

Networks Unlimited

Networks Unlimited is a value-added distributor, offering the best and latest solutions within the converged technology, data centre, networking, and security landscapes. The company distributes best-of-breed products, including Arbor Networks, Fortinet, F5, Mellanox, ProLabs, Rackmount, RSA, Rubrik, SimpliVity and Tintri. The product portfolio provides solutions from the edge to the data centre, and addresses key areas such as cloud networking and integration, WAN optimisation, application performance management, application delivery networking, WiFi-, mobile- and networking security, load balancing, data centre in-a-box, and storage for virtual machines.

Since its formation in 1994, Networks Unlimited has continually adapted to today's progressively competitive and evolving marketplace, and has reaped the benefits by being a leading value-added distributor (VAD) within the Sub-Saharan Africa market.

Networks Unlimited complies with the South African Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) guidelines as a Level 4 Contributor.

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Chriselna Welsh
Networks Unlimited
(+27) 011 202 8400
chriselna.welsh@nu.co.za