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Voyence Joins F5 Networks’ Advantage Alliance Partner Program

Voyence and F5 Collaborate to Provide Automated Network Configuration Management for F5 Devices

Richardson, TX, September 14th, 2004 - Voyence™ Inc., the leading provider of configuration management solutions for networks, announced it has joined F5 Networks’ Advantage Alliance Program as a Technology Alliance Partner, and has added support for F5 Networks BIG-IP® suite of products. Through the program, Voyence and F5 have validated product interoperability to automate network configuration management of F5 devices. This integration ensures F5 Networks’ BIG-IP suite of products give customers expanded visibility into their IT infrastructure and application traffic management solution, helping them to understand how changes to the configuration of the network affect business services.

“As networking environments become more complex, organizations need a way to optimize and protect their IT investments,” said Jim Ritchings, vice president of business development for F5 Networks. “With Voyence and F5 Networks, network managers can effectively administer their heterogeneous network environments by increasing control of configuration changes, resulting in reduced cost and improved network availability and security.”

VoyenceControl automates network planning, design, deployment, change management and compliance auditing processes to increase network availability and improve security by preventing errors from being introduced during the design or change process. By centralizing, automating and validating change management processes, VoyenceControl significantly reduces the time, resources and costs associated with managing complex networks.

The BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager is an application traffic management system that provides the most intelligent and adaptable solution to secure, optimize and deliver applications, enabling organizations to effectively and competitively run their business. It's the only system that features a set of unified application infrastructure services that deliver total control, vision and flexibility into application security, performance and delivery. The result is greater business agility and successful outcomes for the lifeblood of the organization today - the application itself.

“In order to better serve our customers, Voyence is actively extending VoyenceControl’s support of leading device manufacturers, which allows them to better leverage existing IT investments,” said Susan Nash, CEO of Voyence. “The integration of VoyenceControl and BIG-IP offers customers a leading solution to quickly and effectively manage complex, heterogeneous networks.

About F5 Networks
F5 enables organizations to successfully deliver business-critical applications and gives them the greatest level of agility to stay ahead of growing business demands. As the pioneer and global leader in Application Traffic Management, F5 continues to lead the industry by driving more intelligence into the network to deliver advanced application agility. F5 products ensure the secure and optimized delivery of applications to any user - anywhere. Through its flexible and cohesive architecture, F5 delivers unmatched value by dramatically improving the way organizations serve their employees, customers and constituents, while lowering operational costs. Over 6,500 organizations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their businesses running. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide. For more information go to www.f5.com.

About Voyence
Voyence is the leading provider of enterprise network configuration and change management solutions that automate critical change, compliance, and activation processes. The company’s solution, VoyenceControl helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase network availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl is the only network configuration and change management solution, based on a multi-tiered architecture that can effectively manage tens of thousands of devices across heterogeneous networks. No other solution automates configuration management for more enterprise networks than VoyenceControl. For more information go to www.voyence.com.

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Michael Bunyard
Vice President
Voyence
972-759-4056
pressinfo@voyence.com

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