At N+I, NetReality Debuts CIO-Level Reporting.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2001

As It Managers Increasingly Use Bandwidth Management Tools to

Justify Upgrades, NetReality Enhances Its Application

Priority Switch to Enrich "C-level" Understanding

NetReality Inc., the leader in network application priority switching, today announced the availability of WiseWan(tm) 5.0, which takes bandwidth management to the CIO level.

WiseWan is a network application priority switch (NAPS), which enables a corporation or carrier to assign mission-critical applications top priority as they traverse enterprise networks. Today's bandwidth management products are mostly "for techies only", providing detailed -- often too detailed for the CIO level -- information on network consumption by protocol and IP address. Responding to user feedback, in WiseWan 5.0 NetReality has built upon WiseWan's already award-winning reporting capabilities to provide critical network traffic information in ways most meaningful to executives. Since many network managers are using WiseWan to justify upgrades to their management teams during these tight times, these are important new features.

"Today more than ever, WiseWan reports are finding their way into management team discussions, as organizations struggle to keep IT budgets under control," said Kit Waugh, vice president of marketing and business development. "With WiseWan 5.0, NetReality seeks to ease those discussions by allowing the IT team and C-level decision-makers to read technical network utilization information in a common language."

WiseWan 5.0 allows network managers to:

-- Group protocols.

Network managers can use this feature to group and shape, for example, all mission-critical business applications (Citrix-ICA, Oracle, SAP, Telnet), email applications (POP3, SMTP), or all network management protocols (DNS, ICMP, SNMP). They can then generate pie charts, bar graphs and fever graphs showing traffic by types -- so the CIO can readily see how much of the pipe is consumed by mission-critical traffic versus routine network maintenance or even recreational network use. This feature was much requested by global network managers, since it gives them a quick and easy way to explain global network issues.

-- Create groups of users for shaping purposes.

Network managers can use this feature to set and enforce corporate bandwidth usage priorities by group. For instance, a network manager might create a group for call center employees and assign them the highest priority. During congested periods, call center users would still experience the required application response times as they deal with the company's most important assets -- its customers.

-- Report and post-automatically.

Network managers can now run WiseWan reports on a regular basis -- for instance, they can opt to run the ten most utilized reports every day at nine, noon and six -- and automatically post them to a Web site for easy sharing and comparing. This saves a significant amount of time for IT professionals in large organizations with dispersed teams in need of the crucial information WiseWan produces. For details on how WiseWan user Lexmark is leveraging this feature, please go to http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/2001/124729_09-03-2001.html

-- Obtain reports in HTTP, PDF, Java applet or Comma Delimited Files

Since WiseWan reports are being utilized by a variety of employees within organizations, NetReality added a variety of report formats. The Java applet provides the ultimate flexibility: information originally captured in bar graph format can be manipulated and viewed by various recipients in whatever format they prefer-pie chart, line graph, etc.

Additional Features WiseWan 5.0 also includes:

-- Increased protocol support.

WiseWan has always supported more applications "out of the box" than any other bandwidth management product, and in 5.0 NetReality built further upon its leadership in this arena by supporting an additional 18 protocols including SAP Release 3, SOCKS, and Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol. Today, WiseWan supports nearly 500 applications

-- Support for higher speeds.

NetReality also announces three new high-speed models: the WiseWan 401 for a maximum line speed of 12 Mbps; 402 for serial lines with a maximum speed of 2x12 Mbps and WiseWan 601 for lines with a maximum speed of up to 52 Mbps.

Pricing, Availability

WiseWan 5.0 is available immediately from NetReality and its channel partners. Pricing starts at $3,995 and ranges upwards, depending upon quantity and speed supported.

About NetReality

Founded in 1997, NetReality (www.net-reality.com) is the premier provider of network application priority switches (NAPS). Installed in hundreds of enterprises including Daimler Chrysler, A.T. Kearney, Domino's Pizza and Nike, NetReality's technology enables organizations to prioritize mission-critical traffic, get the most out of existing bandwidth and put off costly bandwidth upgrades. What differentiates NetReality's solution from others is its ability to monitor real-time network conditions and shape traffic accordingly, so priorities are enforced and bandwidth use restricted only when conditions necessitate.

NetReality's service provider customers leverage the WiseWan NAPS to establish and enforce Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and realize new revenue streams through differentiated services. The company's technology has earned numerous awards and recognition from publications such as Network Computing, e-WEEK and Communications News and at major tradeshows including Internet Telephony, COMNET and SUPERCOMM.

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