Crescendo Networks Commissions The Tolly Group to Evaluate the Power of Maestro Application Layer Processing (ALP) Product.

ALP Delivers Application Performance Improvements in Excess of 500% When Tested in Leading Multi-Tier CRM & Call Center Environments

TENAFLY, N.J. -- Crescendo Networks, the undisputed leader in application acceleration and optimization, today announced that it commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Application Layer Processing (ALP) product implemented on the company's Maestro CN-5500 Platform. Testing examined ALP's performance in some of the most demanding multi-tier CRM and call center environments. Crescendo's Application Layer Processing product is the first acceleration solution designed to specifically target application bottlenecks across application processing tiers beyond the web tier. ALP employs a set of advanced technologies that learn, optimize and accelerate critical application flows and processes within multi-tier environments.

Maestro ALP is also the first acceleration solution capable of identifying, monitoring, accelerating, and reporting (historically or in real time) on mission-critical business processes. By continuously monitoring transaction flows, ALP associates a group of users' transactions with a specific business process. This allows ALP to apply different policies to mission-critical tasks such as Account Review and Add Customer. Initial tests conducted by The Tolly Group using ALP to accelerate a leading CRM solution showed performance improvements in excess of 500% for business processes identified as High Priority.

"Traditional AFE/ADC solutions use techniques such as TCP optimization and compression to accelerate communication between only the web servers and the end users," said Adoram Ga'ash, CEO and Chairman of Crescendo Networks. "What is truly revolutionary about ALP is that it employs a completely different approach that learns and accelerates the transaction delivery path within the processing tiers beyond the Web servers. This ability to improve the performance of transactions and, more importantly, the complete business process represents a breakthrough within the application delivery space. Customers who deploy the solution will realize dramatic improvements in user productivity," Ga'ash continued.

About The Tolly Group

The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting organization based in Boca Raton, FL., offers a full range of services designed to furnish both the vendor and end-user communities with authoritative and unbiased information. Additionally, The Tolly Group is recognized worldwide for its expertise in assessing leading-edge technologies. For more information on The Tolly Group's services, visit its Web site at www.tolly.com, E-mail [e-mail], call [phone], or fax [phone].

About Crescendo Networks

Crescendo Networks, a leader in the Application Acceleration Market, is the only vendor that offers a multi-gigabit, multi-tier acceleration and optimization solution. Crescendo currently offers two product families, both enabled on its award winning, purpose built, Maestro Platform. The AFE (Application Front End) product line accelerates application delivery, intelligently managing, protecting and optimizing web based applications. The ALP (Application Layer Processing) product line offers sophisticated acceleration capabilities to the inner application server tiers (beyond the web tier) within the data center. Independent testing conducted by Network World Magazine, demonstrates that Crescendo Networks is the undisputed performance leader in the Applications Acceleration Market. Crescendo's awards include "Best of Interop Grand Prize Winner" and "Best of Interop" in category at Interop 2006 as well as Red Herring's "Top 100 Innovators." Crescendo Networks, Inc., headquartered in Tenafly, NJ, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crescendo Networks, LTD, located in Tel-Aviv, Israel. For more information visit www.crescendonetworks.com.