Crescendo's New Multi-Tier Application Acceleration Technology Wins Grand Prize at Interop 2006.

LAS VEGAS -- Maestro and Application Layer Processing (ALP) Technology also Chosen as Best of Interop in Application Network and Performance Category, Redefining Application Front End Solution Space

At Interop 2006, Crescendo Networks, the leader in high performance application front end (AFE) products, today announced it was selected as the Best of Interop Grand Prize winner. Crescendo's Maestro AFE was also selected as Best of Interop within the Application Networks and Performance category (against competitors that included Cisco Systems and Stampede Technologies). The Network Computing awards recognized Crescendo's latest Application Layer Processing technology, which complements and enhances the company's existing Maestro application acceleration solution. The award was presented by Senior technology editors from Network Computing magazine and IT industry veterans.

"ALP took the practice of application acceleration to an entirely new level," observed Art Witmann, editor-in-chief of Network Computing. "Crescendo impressed us by taking a practical approach to application acceleration that we have not seen in other products," he concluded.

According to Adoram Ga'ash, CEO of Crescendo Networks, "This award capitalizes on a year of incredible successes for Crescendo that include a dramatic increase in sales, major break throughs in technology, the growth of our North American operations, and recognition of our leadership within the application acceleration industry. We look forward to translating this momentum into continued business success."

ALP is the first solution capable of intelligently accelerating application flows across all application tiers (web, application and database) and represents a dramatic new approach to accelerating multi-tier applications. "When we ask customers and prospects what they need, they consistently tell us they want their applications to run faster," said Doron Meirom, President of Crescendo Networks. "Our Maestro AFE solution delivers the industry's highest level of application acceleration -- and, with our new ALP technology, we are redefining application front end functionality."

Crescendo Network's award-winning Maestro product line delivers application acceleration, a faster end user experience, increased security and application assurance while dramatically reducing data center expenditures. ALP complements Maestro's existing AFE functionality, offering unique patent-pending application layer processing algorithms modeled on bio-medical engineering research techniques. ALP's unique functionality eliminates application overload, intelligently schedules and prioritizes delivery requests, and monitors and reports on application performance across all tiers. Collectively, ALP and SLT technologies deliver a level of application acceleration several times greater than the performance capabilities of any other AFE vendor.

About Crescendo Networks

Crescendo Networks is the undisputed performance leader in the application acceleration market, delivering unmatched multi-gigabit performance and application assurance in its award-winning Maestro application front end. Crescendo's technology accelerates end-to-end application performance and intelligently manages server-side sessions to protect and optimize server and application resources, dramatically improving end user response times. The company's robust and scalable hardware architecture makes it the only AFE that accelerates application content through simultaneous multi-gigabit connections, allowing it to deliver connection management, SSL acceleration, data compression, DDoS protection and load balancing simultaneously without performance degradation. The most demanding web sites in the world employ the Maestro product line to accelerate their critical applications and to assure, optimize and protect their customers and servers.

Crescendo has received numerous industry awards, including Red Herring's "Top 100 Innovators," Network Magazine's "Most Innovative Start-Up" and "Best of Interop" at N+I Las Vegas May 2004. Independent tests conducted by Network Magazine in January of 2006 showed the Maestro Platform as the clear AFE performance leader against all major competitors. Crescendo is headquartered in Israel, with U.S. headquarters in New Jersey and Chinese headquarters in Beijing. For more information on the most advanced AFE solutions available today and tomorrow, visit www.crescendonetworks.com.