Expand Networks` Mobile Accelerator Client Delivers Industry First Appliance-like Performance

Revolutionising WAN Optimisation economics with zero cost deployment for small
branch offices and roaming users
LAS VEGAS--(Business Wire)--
Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office
consolidation and virtualisation, today announces its new Mobile Accelerator
Client (MACC) with unique `HIVE Technology`. The MACC, featuring technology from
recently acquired Adelaide-based NetPriva PTY, transforms the economics of WAN
Optimisation for smaller branch offices and mobile workers within large
businesses. The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is significantly reduced, and the
requirement for a whole class of `conventional` optimisation hardware for small
branch offices is removed - whilst delivering uncompromising appliance-like
performance.

"Networks have long been designed, built and operated independently of the
applications that run on top of them. However, emerging technologies are
changing this relationship," said Joe Skorupa, Research VP, Enterprise Networks,
Gartner Inc. "Enterprises must deal with the conflicting requirements for
increasing application demands within the constraints of tight budgets and a
market with more technologies, deployment options and vendors. Application
acceleration technologies to optimise datacentre network and WAN architectures
are rapidly becoming mainstream."

The MACC client introduces a number of technology and economic firsts. Of
primary importance is Collective Mode, where MACC clients in the same location
automatically discover each other and collaborate to create a high performance,
distributed virtual cache and cooperative QoS. For organisations with small
branch offices, this unique Collective Mode mitigates the requirement for WAN
Optimisation appliances at the branch site, recouping the cost of a whole tier
of capital expenditure - without compromising performance.

"We`ve calculated that a typical enterprise of certain configurations could
readily enjoy savings of up to 66% or more in capital and operating
expenditure," said Adam Davison, Corporate Vice President of Sales and
Marketing, Expand.

Collective Mode isone of three modes of behaviour determined automatically by
Intelligent Location Detection - a cornerstone of the new HIVE Technology -
whereby theclient intelligently understands its location and automatically
applies policies and adaptive QoS and configuration based on this information.

The economics of the MACC are equally innovative and unique. First, the client
will be made available free of charge. This means that all laptops and remote
desktops in the enterprise can be equipped at zero cost. The enterprise
purchases a licence based only on maximum concurrent users of the technology,
not on clients deployed. Additionally, since the MACC terminates on Expand`s
current datacentre hardware and management systems, no additional datacentre
appliances are required, and the potential for further savings in capital and
operational costs - such as maintenance, power consumption and cooling - are
exponential.

The MACC is also designed to smooth large organisations` evolution into
distributed, social enterprises. For example, Freestyle Mode is enabled when the
client finds itself alone in a home office, hotspot or hotel room. The MACC will
then employ dynamic discovery of the applications in use and the bandwidth
available, optimising performance and QoS policies for all applications with
zero touch. This includes powerful peer-to-peer/client-to-client QoS support for
VoIP and video services (for example). Finally, when the client is in a large
branch office or HQ, the Intelligent Location Detection understands there is a
physical appliance, and the client switches into Slipstream Mode.

For all modes of operation, user behaviour and application performance is
configured and monitored from a single management station.

Elie Barr, CEO of Expand Networks concludes, "Large enterprises with numerous
small branches previously faced a choice of implementing either a mobile client
or a physical appliance for WAN Optimisation. The MACC completely resolves this
`client or appliance` dilemma, by providing the benefit of both individual and
shared cache in one solution while significantly lowering TCO."

The MACC Client will be available in the fourth quarter of 2009, free of charge.
Concurrent user licences will be priced from sub $100 dollars per user,
dependent on licenses purchased.

Expand Networks is demonstrating its Mobile Accelerator Client on Booth 2325 at
Interop 2009, Las Vegas.

Elizabeth Miller
Connect2Communications - US
847-223-2653
elizabeth@connect2comm.com
or
Jennifer Manning
Cohesive Communications - EMEA
+44 (0) 1291 626200
expand@cohesive.uk.com
or
Brooke Radich
Kinetics - APAC
+61 (0) 2 9212 3848
expand@kinetics.com.au

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