Roseland, NJ. – September 24, 2008 – Expand Networks, www.expand.com, a leading provider of application acceleration solutions over the Wide Area Network (WAN), today announced that the company has deployed its 10,000th unit to the U.S. government. The sale, made to the US Army, reinforces Expand Networks’ position as the leading provider of WAN Optimization appliances to US military and civilian agencies.
This news follows two major recent wins in the tactical military market for Expand Networks. In April, 2008, Expand announced that General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) and the United States Army awarded them the Warfighter Information Network - Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2-3 TCP Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) contract. In July 2008, Expand announced the deployment of Accelerators on the US Air Force JSTARS BLOS program, improving link stability, increasing throughput and accelerating airborne application performance.
Expand Networks’ product and service offerings uniquely meet the growing need in the military and civilian agencies for secure, efficient communications over the WAN. The only WAN Optimization solution to comply with the Federal Desktop Core Configuration standard, Expand’s roots in the US government help ensure that Expand reinforces network security while optimizing network performance. The company’s long experience and leadership position in the federal and military sectors illustrate the abilities of the Expand Compass platform to cost-effectively optimize branch office performance and inter and intra-agency collaboration, accelerate battlefield networks, and boost communications over low speed and high latency satellite links.
“The ability of the government to communicate securely and efficiently is essential to its ability to fulfill its range of mission requirements,” said Howard Teicher Expand Network’s Vice President for Public Sector & Satellite Markets. “Our success over the past 10 years in the military and civilian sectors unambiguously illustrates the ability of Expand Networks’ durable and diverse WAN optimization platform to save taxpayer resources, improve government services and significantly contribute to our national security.”
Expand Networks accelerators are in production throughout US government civilian agencies and military services.
About Expand Networks
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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