Crescendo Networks Announces NxTGen Application Delivery Architecture; Architecture Delivers First Multi-Gigabit, Feature Concurrent Application Delivery Solution for Data Centers.

NEW YORK -- At Interop New York, Crescendo Networks, a global leader in application acceleration, today announced its NxTGen application acceleration architecture, designed to meet the needs of the world's busiest web sites and data centers. Crescendo's NxTGen Architecture, implemented within its Maestro product line, will scale to the performance levels of the most demanding web and enterprise organizations -- and also address their future data center application needs. NxTGen will enable Crescendo to provide content delivery at speeds exceeding six gigabits with all application front end (AFE) functions enabled simultaneously.

"Consolidation, convergence and economies of scale have changed the data center paradigm," noted Adoram Gaash, Chairman and CEO of Crescendo Networks. "Customers are demanding consolidation of functions without sacrificing high levels of performance. Crescendo Networks has responded by developing an architecture that will deliver the highest levels of performance, flexibility and adaptability within the application delivery market," continued Gaash.

Traditional application front end (AFE) solutions rely on a central processor-shared resource model to deliver AFE functionality. These solutions struggle to scale, however, when users enable multiple AFE features simultaneously. Crescendo Networks' Maestro AFE (based on a solid state, non-blocking purpose-built design) was designed from inception to deliver multi-gigabit throughput with all features enabled concurrently.

"The increased demand for the webification of applications, chronicled in leading publications and through independent research, is prompting users to call for the next generation of AFEs," said Doron Meirom president of Crescendo Networks Inc. "NxTGen addresses this need. While other companies continue to rely on reworking central processor-based solutions, we have created a custom, purpose-built platform optimized for the data center of today -- and tomorrow. NxTGen, as an architectural vision, and Maestro as its implementation, which can be seen at Booth #746, creates an opportunity for the company to leapfrog the competition and become the leader in the application delivery market," declared Meirom.

Crescendo Networks' Maestro product suite is the only application acceleration and optimization solution based on a fully distributed hardware architecture. Built from the ground up to handle the most demanding applications, the multi-gigabit platform employs over 60 Application Micro Engines (AMEs), distributed throughout multiple hardware components, to handle all optimization/acceleration tasks. Traditional AFEs have performance limitations when multiple functions are enabled simultaneously since all these functions use the same processing/resource pool.

In contrast, Maestro's purpose-built distributed architecture can perform all tasks concurrently, without any degradation in total performance, allowing it to control application delivery at a scale unattainable by traditional AFE solutions.

About Crescendo Networks

Crescendo Networks is a global leader in application acceleration, delivering multi-gigabit performance and application assurance in its award winning Maestro application front end (AFE) product line. 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. Crescendo'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. Crescendo has received numerous prestigious 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. 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 their servers. 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