Crescendo's New Multi-Tier Application Acceleration Technology Delivers Unmatched Performance for Web Based Applications; Application Layer Processing (ALP) Technology Redefines AFE Application Acceleration Capabilities.

LAS VEGAS -- At Interop 2006 Crescendo Networks, the leader in high performance application front end (AFE) products, today announced the availability of its Application Layer Processing (ALP) technology. ALP is the first solution capable of intelligently accelerating application flows across all logical application tiers. It will be available as a software module for Crescendo's Maestro family of products beginning in Q3 of 2006. ALP represents a dramatic new approach to accelerating multi-tier applications. By optimizing all application tiers, ALP addresses end-to-end data center performance bottlenecks, regardless of location. Coupled with Maestro's award-winning short life transaction (SLT(TM)) technology, which already addresses all front-tier issues, ALP delivers levels of acceleration unmatched by traditional AFE vendors.

"Crescendo's unique ALP technology represents the first time an AFE is addressing our application and database performance bottlenecks behind the web server," said Ian Rae, president and CEO of Syntenic Inc. "This revolutionary end-to-end acceleration approach will enable applications to reach new levels of performance and scalability unattainable by existing acceleration technologies," continued Rae.

Web applications commonly contain multiple logical processing tiers that reside on one or more physical server tiers. As application requests move between the tiers they must often wait for processing attention from upstream or downstream partners. Crescendo reduces this inherent latency by intelligently managing and optimizing the application flow between all logical tiers, allowing applications to reach performance levels unmatched by any other solution.

"Crescendo Networks is the undisputed performance leader in the AFE market, so it is natural that we would take data center application acceleration capabilities to the next level," said Adoram Ga'ash, CEO of Crescendo Networks. "Our customers maintain the world's most demanding data centers -- and their business success depends on delivering content as quickly and efficiently as possible. ALP will deliver unmatched levels of application acceleration and its advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities will allow customers to continuously tune their content delivery solutions."

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.

ALP Technology Overview

Using definitions created using the Crescendo Rule Engine (CRE), ALP is capable of recognizing for which tier each application request is destined. ALP also understands that different requests impose different processing "weights" on the application with "heavier" requests taking longer to process than "lighter" ones. Request weights can either be manually configured or adaptively learned by ALP. In addition ALP recognizes that each tier in the application has an upper processing limit in terms of simultaneous requests. When a tier reaches maximum capacity, ALP's Admission Control mechanism queues requests within Maestro sending them only to the application when processing capacity is available.

ALP will be available for the Maestro product line as a software module. North American pricing for the integrated Maestro-ALP solution package will start at $52,000. ALP will be available to existing Crescendo clients as an upgrade. For more information on this revolutionary technology visit Crescendo Networks at booth #359.

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