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FFIV plods forward despite massacre in share price.......F5 Networks Expands OEM Contract for iVEA's CryptoSwift 600 for Securing eBusiness Infrastructure Solutions Agreement Places CryptoSwift 600 Into F5's BIG-IP(R) Controllers to Speed Encryption and Enable Advanced Load Balancing for SSL Traffic at Rates Up to 600 TPS IRVINE, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- iVEA Technologies, a Rainbow Technologies (Nasdaq: RNBO - news) company and a leading provider of high-performance security solutions for the Internet and eCommerce, today announced that F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: FFIV - news), the leading provider of Internet traffic and content management, has signed a new OEM agreement that will integrate iVEA's CryptoSwift 600 eCommerce accelerator into F5's BIG-IP Controller. F5 will also market a value-added version of the CryptoSwift 600 as the F5 BIG-IP SSL Accelerator 600 as an option or upgrade to an F5 appliance. F5 Networks' SSL acceleration solutions include integrated load-balancing and stand-alone SSL processing devices to give eBusinesses significantly greater Web-server capacity and faster acceleration of the most popular Internet security protocols. F5 uses both the CryptoSwift 200 and the CryptoSwift 600 (rated at 200 and 600 transactions per second (TPS), respectively) as options for its entire line of SSL solutions. The faster transaction processing performance will complement the strong load balancing and improved Application Layer management of user traffic provided by F5's BIG-IP® Controller. The total value of the order was not disclosed. ``Efficiently serving and scaling SSL is a key requirement for many of F5's customers and we've been very successful in delivering flexible solutions to handle SSL acceleration,'' said Jeff Pancottine, senior vice president of marketing and business development, F5 Networks. ``The CryptoSwift 200 has played a major role by working in conjunction with BIG-IP Controllers to accelerate Web traffic and apply advanced load-balancing techniques to SSL traffic using information like cookies. The CryptoSwift 600 offers even greater capacity to let F5 customers optimize their back-office resources and more effectively manage applications''. F5 is the only company delivering the combination of SSL and intelligent traffic management in a single solution. We're committed to expanding our capabilities and capacity to maintain our market-leading position.`` ``We are very pleased that F5 Networks has continued its commitment to improving the performance of its BIG-IP controller and BIG-IP e-Commerce Controller with the CryptoSwift 600,'' said Shawn Abbott, president, iVEA Technologies. ``Leveraging the significantly faster performance and acceleration of the CryptoSwift 600, together with the proven scalability and manageability with F5 Network solutions, provides today's B2B customers with an outstanding solution for security and performance.'' iVEA's eCommerce performance and security-acceleration technology is the industry's leading solution for cryptographic acceleration. iVEA's solutions provide fast and secure transactions over the Internet while dramatically reducing Web-server response time, resulting in as much as 1,000 transactions per second for eCommerce performance. iVEA's CryptoSwift eCommerce acceleration solutions accelerate the public-key cryptographic functions of SSL, SET, SSH, IKE and other widely used security protocols. This proven technology, first developed by iVEA, improves server-response time for secure connections by up to 90 percent by freeing the Web server to perform other tasks, especially during peak load and heavy traffic periods. F5 Network's BIG-IP Controller provides true Layer 7 management capabilities to make intelligent load-balancing decisions. BIG-IP can identify specific traffic based on HTTP header information or IP address to determine where a customer request should be sent; directing traffic to a set of servers or devices which can best service the request. BIG-IP provides several methods of intelligent traffic control that gives eBusinesses nearly unlimited flexibility and manageability over the flow of IP-based traffic. Additionally, the BIG-IP e-Commerce Controller 600 provides 600 TPS eCommerce performance and scalability that is ideal for stand-alone deployment. The BIG-IP e-Commerce Controller 600 gives F5 Networks the ability to help support the security infrastructure of organizations that are looking to enhance their IT investment, not replace it.