Expand Networks Delivers Most Competitive and Scalable Branch Office WAN Optimization Device

Expand Networks, www.expand.com, a leading provider of application acceleration solutions over the Wide Area Network (WAN), has today announced a new pricing structure, establishing its entry level Branch Office Accelerators as the most scalable and competitively priced WAN Optimization products on the market.

Scaling from 128k through to 6Mbps in one device, an Expand 4830 or 4930 branch office appliance is a single alternative to 7 Riverbed, 2 Cisco or 3 Juniper WAN optimization devices, providing a long-term investment that can adapt according to changing business requirements.

“As enterprises become more dependent on the WAN, optimization has become a necessity rather than a nice to have. In today’s economic conditions, we have strived to make WAN Optimization more affordable and will continue to take an aggressive approach to our product development strategy,” explains Efi Gatmor, CTO of Expand Networks. “Not only are we staying ahead of the competition with our technology, but are also pushing the development of the WAN Optimization market forward with our unique licensing model in order to achieve the price points and scalability required by organizations today.”

Expand Accelerators 4830 and 4930 provide its customers with the most future-proof investment for today’s branch offices to ensure scalable and reliable application performance across the WAN and Satellite links.

“Unlike other WAN Optimization products on the market, Expand’s Branch Office Accelerators only require a new license to scale from 128k up to 6Mbps rather than a physical forklift upgrade from other vendors,” continued Gatmor. “An Accelerator is not a short term solution; communication is the lifeblood of any business, and their requirements are constantly changing. At Expand we understand that organizations need the capability to adapt according to network and user demand, in order to support changing business initiatives.

Our goal is to ensure superior application performance to distributed business environments making the workforce, and therefore the business, more productive. As IT directors are increasingly looking to ‘do more with less’, the enhanced scalability and measurable ROI benefits of our Branch Office Accelerators, provide a compelling and future-proof solution to managing business bandwidth in key IT initiatives such as mobile communications, virtualization and consolidation,” Gatmor concluded.

Available immediately, pricing starts at $2,395 for the Accelerator 4830 and $2,495 for the Accelerator 4930.

About the Accelerator 4830:

• Up to 6 Mbps of compression throughput
• Up To 45 Mbps of TCP acceleration and Layer-7 QoS throughput
• Up to 100 connected remote Accelerators
• Up to 64,000 concurrent TCP sessions
• 1GB of memory

About the Accelerator 4930:

• Up to 6 Mbps of compression throughput
• Up to 45 Mbps of application acceleration including Layer 7 QoS and TCP acceleration
• Up to 64,000 concurrent TCP sessions
• Up to 200 WAFS users
• Up to 100 connected remote Accelerators

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, 20071. 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 (www.expand.com) 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. Expand is the largest supplier of WAN Optimization products to US Government and Military agencies (greater than 6,000 units) and also has the most units deployed at a single corporate location, (4,500).

1 Gartner Research “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers 2007” by Andy Rolfe and Joe Skorupa. Published December 14, 2007. Report ID Number G00153256