Allot Communications Announces The NetEnforcer Family of IP Traffic Management Products: Fault-Tolerant, Scalable, Policy-Based Bandwidth Management, QoS, SLA Solutions.

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999--

ISPs and Enterprise Network Managers Can Now Manage the Largest Number of Customers and the Largest Number of Policies Simultaneously

From a Single Box, With Easy Integration of Existing Databases

Directly Through LDAP Interfaces

Allot Communications today announced the availability of its next-generation NetEnforcer(TM) complete range of policy-based bandwidth management products.

Ideally suited for both ISPs and Enterprise Networks, NetEnforcer gives users the power to intelligently shape bandwidth and deliver system-wide service level guarantees based on the needs and priorities of the service provider or corporation. Offering 10/100 Mbps interface flexibility across the product line, Allot's hardware-based bypass technology ensures 100 percent availability and redundancy.

Through standard LDAP-based directories, NetEnforcer allows users to effortlessly integrate network policies with databases. For the service provider, policies can be integrated with customer care databases and service level agreements. For corporations, policies can be integrated with user databases allowing them to be set per department, group or mission-critical application.

NetEnforcer features advanced QoS algorithms, supports up to 64,000 simultaneous connections and up to 100 Mbps traffic load, providing the largest set of enforcement features available on the market today.

It easily integrates into external systems through industry standards such as LDAP, DiffServ, COPS, RADIUS and TOS (Type of Service). NetEnforcer is manageable through any Web browser or by Allot's NetPolicy management system.

"NetEnforcer is a unified solution," stated Eran Ziv, president of Allot Communications. "It provides LAN/WAN, QoS, and SLA bandwidth management, server load balancing, cache redirection, monitoring and accounting services for billing efficiencies."

The NetEnforcer family includes the AC101 for use on the customer premise or the branch office (supporting speeds up to 512 Kbps), the AC 201 for medium-size architectures and POPs, optimized for speeds up to 10Mbps, and the AC301 optimized for network speeds up to 100Mbps, handling multiple E3/T3 links.

The NetEnforcer family of products is available and shipping today. The NetEnforcer AC101 is priced at $4,500; NetEnforcer AC201 is priced at $7,500; NetEnforcer AC301 is priced at $13,000. All prices are U.S. list.

About Allot Communications

Allot Communications develops, manufactures, and markets policy-based networking solutions. In an era of increasing network chaos and bandwidth-hungry applications, there is a need for products that handle network traffic according to its importance to corporate or service provider goals.

Rather than simply continuing to increase network bandwidth, Allot's products provide a more structured policy-based approach to ensuring the quality and availability of network services, resources and applications. Allot Communications was founded in 1996 to solve network performance problems through traffic shaping, server load-balancing, IP accounting, cache redirection and integrated network management.

Allot was recognized by Data Communications in 1998 as a "Top 25 Hot Startup" and recently received a "1999 Hot Product of the Year" award from the magazine.

Allot Communications has offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Sophia Antipolis, France; Tokyo, Japan; and Burlingame. The company sells and markets its products worldwide through OEMs, distributors and direct channels. To learn more about Allot Communications, visit its Web site at http://www.allot.com.