ANTARA.net Founder's Product Listed 5th Among 'Most Important Products of the Decade' by Network Computing.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2000

Magazine Describes Kalpana's EtherSwitch as

'a little product backed by a great vision'

ANTARA.net, a provider of powerful self-contained Internet application traffic and security attack emulation systems for eBusinesses, announced that the EtherSwitch, invented by company founder Vinod Bhardwaj, was named fifth in a list of the top ten "most important products of the decade" by Network Computing magazine.

Bhardwaj holds the patent for the first Ethernet switch product and has a series of technology firsts to his credit. He founded Kalpana, Inc., in 1987 and created a new networking product category by bringing the first switching architecture to Ethernet with the EtherSwitch product line in 1990 and full duplex Ethernet in 1991 -- technology that now represents one of the largest segments of the data communication industry. Additionally, Bhardwaj was a member of the team that developed the Excelan LANalyzer, a leading Ethernet network diagnostic and protocol analysis tool, which is now manufactured and marketed by Novell. Cisco Systems acquired Kalpana in 1994.

"It is a great honor for me to see the EtherSwitch recognized by Network Computing," said Bhardwaj. "As founder of ANTARA.net, I plan to continue improving upon the technology needed to move our industry forward."

Bhardwaj founded ANTARA.net in 1998 with the goal of providing the most comprehensive Internet stressing and eBusiness infrastructure validation solutions on the market. ANTARA.net's FlameThrower product replaces the need for expensive browser simulation software and point simulations that must be conducted by tens or even hundreds of PCs in time consuming and often frustrating step-by-step trials.

"At the time of the EtherSwitch's debut, Kalpana's founders couldn't have imagined the effects switching would have on all aspects of networked computing," said Network Computing Lab Director, Robert J. Kohlpepp, in the October 2nd, 2000 issue of Network Computing. "But Kalpana's EtherSwitch, a little product backed by great vision -- and great marketing -- proved to be the first in a raft of product introductions from numerous companies that brought much needed bandwidth to a hungry market."

Network Computing's top choice was NCSA's Mosaic followed in order by Novell's NetWare 3.x, Cisco System's 7500 and Microsoft's Windows NT respectively with the EtherSwitch in the fifth position. The magazine named Apache's Web Server number six followed by Network Associate's Sniffer, Cisco System's 2500, Check Point Software Technology's FireWall-1 and Lotus Notes respectively.

About ANTARA.net's FlameThrower

In contrast to less reliable methods of infrastructure testing, FlameThrower's load emulation platform is compact, produces accurate and repeatable tests and results, and is ready to use out of the box. Based on integration of powerful fourth generation custom ASICs and RISC technologies and software, these solutions deliver real world Internet application traffic and security attack emulations capable of sustaining well over 20,000,000 TCP connections and can scale to stress to the limit virtually any network device or eInfrastructure.

About ANTARA.net

ANTARA.net designs, manufactures and markets comprehensive, intelligent application level network test solutions for network product manufacturers, IT professionals and service providers. ANTARA.net offers a simple and cost-effective means to deploy performance, functional and standards-based conformance testing from a single platform using powerful ASIC and RISC based architecture. ANTARA.net solutions provide users with a scalable means of testing eBusiness infrastructures at the application layer. Founded in 1998 by Vinod Bhardwaj, a pioneer in networking and creator of the first Ethernet switch, ANTARA.net is headquartered in Campbell, California. For more information please visit www.ANTARA.net.