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EXPAND NETWORKS AND GEN2 VENTURES DELIVER PRACTICAL ADVICE TO ENTERPRISES BATTLING TELECOM CHAOS

ROSELAND, N.J., AUGUST 15, 2002 – Expand Networks, a leader in bandwidth optimization technology today announced that it commissioned analyst firm Gen2 Ventures to analyze the current problems in the Telecom market and research the probability of network-wide outages. Gen2 Ventures’ independent findings are currently available in a report, “From Backhoes to Bankruptcy: New WAN Threats” at http://www.expand.com/include/whitepaper/WANBackup-Gen2.pdf Recently, the level of threats to wide area network (WAN) availability has increased significantly causing more network managers to consider beefing up their WAN backup capabilities. Threats of cyber terrorism and the well-publicized problems in the Telecom industry have brought this about. Enterprises must consider the possibility that the performance of entire service provider networks might be severely degraded and some networks might even be shut down. Gen2 Ventures has published a report that analyzes the potential impact of these new business threats and how they differ from traditional WAN outages. The report also elaborates on how bandwidth optimization technologies can reduce the cost of WAN backup in this new environment. “While Telecommunication executives have reassured US Congress of continued service availability, enterprises need to protect themselves from unanticipated outages such as the one that occurred in 1999 during the consolidation of MCI and WorldCom networks. MCI WorldCom’s frame relay network experienced widespread outages and performance problems over a ten-day period,” commented Donald Czubek, president and founder, Gen2 Ventures. “With the prospect of more consolidation, enterprises must weigh the probability and the impact of a network outage against the cost of avoiding an outage, and bandwidth optimization technologies such as that from Expand Networks help to significantly drive down backup costs.” About Gen2 Ventures Gen2 Ventures, led by industry veteran Donald Czubek, is a leading analyst firm specializing in emerging technologies that accelerate and manage the performance of networked applications. Focus areas include network acceleration and QoS management, Web server acceleration, and enterprise CDNs. Gen2 Ventures provides research reports, consulting services, and training to vendors, service providers, and enterprise IT clients. Gen2 Ventures is based in San Jose, CA. About Expand Networks Expand Networks pioneered the development of bandwidth boosting appliances - the ACCELERATORs - which increase network capacity by 100 -400+%. The ACCELERATORs eliminate the need for costly WAN link upgrades, enabling quicker deployments of new applications to remote offices. Networked applications such as CRM, Email, ERP, Thin Client and XML increase the strain on scarce WAN resources, often hindering productivity. By removing repeat data patterns found in any type of traffic, the ACCELERATORs provide important bandwidth savings. The end-result is the decrease in network congestion, which in turn speeds up data transfers. Expand Networks allows enterprises to support more networked users, applications and services with fewer resources delivering a typical ROI of 3 to 12 months. Clients include: Motorola, Texas Instruments, Hitachi Capital, Ford Motor and the United States Department of Defense. Expand Networks is headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey and Tel Aviv, Israel with offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Italy. To learn more, visit www.expand.com or call (888) 892-1250. Expand Networks, ACCELERATOR 6800, ACCELERATOR 4800, ACCELERATOR 4000, ACCELERATOR 2800, ACCELERATOR 2750, and ACCELERATOR 1800 are trademarks of Expand Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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).

Expand Networks, Accelerator, Expand Compass, ExpandView are trademarks of Expand Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


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