ICEWEB Leverages F5 Networks' Solution to Fight Spam

July 13, 2007; 02:56 AM
IceWEB Inc., www.iceWEB.com (OTCBB:IWEB) announced that the company has launched a joint marketing initiative with F5 Networks, which is designed to increase market awareness and sales of F5’s Message Security Module for F5’s popular BIG-IP platform.

John R. Signorello, Chairman and CEO of IceWEB Inc., said of the joint marketing effort, “F5 is one of IceWEB’s most valued and strategic partners. Their products dominate the Application Delivery Networking market. As a company who has core product offerings in those areas, F5’s BIG-IP Message Security Module provides great value to IceWEB’s Federal Government clients, and will also provide significant value to us in our IceMAIL™ Hosted Exchange SaaS offering architecture.”

“With the volume of spam increasing at exponential rates, BIG-IP Message Security Module is an important product of F5’s family of Application Delivery Networking solutions,” said Steve McChesney, Director of Channel Sales for F5. “We’re pleased to engage with IceWEB in co-marketing our uniquely powerful solution that offers customers significant value by enabling them to dramatically reduce spam volumes, lower bandwidth expenditures, and reduce overall infrastructure costs.”

F5’s Message Security Module for BIG-IP adds an initial layer of highly efficient, cost effective IP-reputation based spam filtering at the edge of customers’ networks and eliminate up to 70% of spam before it gets to existing anti-spam content inspection engines. Doing this delivers:

• Reduced processing load on existing anti-spam systems.
• Reduced network traffic load on firewalls, routers, etc.
• Reduced amount of incoming bandwidth taken by spam.
• Intelligent email blocking or routing decisions based on the reputation of the sender.

F5 and IceWEB™ have authored an informative White Paper entitled “Enhanced Messaging Security: Slicing Spam and Other Threats at the Network Edge” available to prospective customers who visit http://www.iceweb.com/emailer/f5andicewebsg.asp. The first 50 customers who visit the link and download the White Paper will also receive a Starbucks $10 Gift Card.

To be added to IceWEB’s investor relations email list please click on the following link: http://www.iceweb.com/home_investrelations.asp or call Investor Relations at 703-964-8000 ext 0961.

About IceWEB

IceWEB, Inc., (OTCBB:IWEB), utilizes a hosted software services model that brings technologies normally reserved for large corporations to the small business customer. By subscribing to IceWEB’s flagship products, IceMAIL and IcePORTAL small and medium sized businesses can now have the benefits of these more advanced software systems for a low ‘pay as you grow’ basis instead of being faced with large up-front capital expenses. IceWEB also provides network infrastructure solutions services to our enterprise and Government customers with a specific focus on network security. Founded in 2000, IceWEB is headquartered in Herndon, VA, and serves customers in the public and private sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.IceWEB.com or http://www.IceMAIL.com.

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, helping organizations get the most out of their investment. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications, F5 optimizes applications and allows them to work faster and consume fewer resources. F5's extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimization, protects the application and the network, and delivers application reliability-all on one universal platform. Over 10,000 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.f5.com.

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