Roseland, NJ – 10^th Nov 2009 – Expand Networks www.expand.com, a leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced that leading independent research firm, Forrester Research Inc., has cited Expand as a ‘Leader’ in its latest research report ‘The Forrester Wave™: WAN Optimization, Q4 2009’. The report, authored by Chris Silva, was published on 10^th November 2009 and rates vendors based on current product offering, strategy and market presence.

Expand Networks was positioned amongst the highest scoring vendors across the three evaluation criteria to be named a ‘Leader’ in the overall result. Expand Networks earned the highest scores for management and usability, as well as architecture. With a total configuration time of 66 seconds, Expand tied with another leading vendor for appliance deployment time.

According to the report, ‘Expand offers excellent support for virtualized environments and nontraditional deployment scenarios such as those dependant on satellite-based WAN links. The vendor has pursued multiple device provider partnerships in the satellite space. Expand has excellent optimization architecture – offering multiple levels of transparency with or without tunneling, including all IP Layer 3 solutions and Layer 4 capabilities – storage architecture, client integration, and deployment architecture, earning it a top spot in current architecture offerings.”

Adam Davison, VP Corporate Sales & Marketing at Expand Networks, comments, “We are delighted to be recognized as a leader by Forrester. Our product portfolio, technology direction and business strategy is in tune with market needs as organizations look toward next generation WAN Optimization technologies, such as Expand’s, as a key enabler to many of today’s high profile IT initiatives including IT consolidation, centralization and virtualization . Our focus on enabling branch offices and remote workforces to take advantage of these initiatives demands a solution that is feature rich yet easy to deploy, manage and use.”

Expand Networks is the pioneer and leader in the WAN Optimization market and is positioned by Gartner Inc. in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2009[i]. Expand helps organizations simplify their IT infrastructure while delivering remote offices fast, reliable and secure access to networked applications.  This results in improved user productivity and cost-effective IT management.  Expand offers a multi-service integrated platform that ensures superior performance for any application over any network.  From its headquarters in Roseland, NJ and its global locations, Expand Networks serves more than 3,500 enterprise and public sector customers in over 100 countries including: American Express, Bacardi USA, BMW, Continental Airlines, Carr America, Colgate, Elizabeth Arden, Reed Exhibitions, Target and United States Department of Defense with over 40,000 units deployed and over 2,000 MS Terminal Services and Citrix customers.  Expand is the largest supplier of WAN Optimization products to US Government and Military agencies (greater than 10,000 units) and also has the most units deployed at a single corporate location, (4,500).

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