Expand Networks New ExpandView Delivers Application Insurance for More Than 100 Enterprise Applications.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ROSELAND, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2003

New Intelligent, Self-Healing Application Traffic Management

System Enables Companies to Automatically Flex Their Network to Meet

Application Performance Demands

Expand Networks, the leading provider of WAN compression and acceleration appliances, today announced ExpandView(TM), a new intelligent, self-healing application traffic management system. ExpandView delivers "application insurance" by automatically discovering and classifying more than 100 enterprise applications while detecting performance problems relating to degraded WAN conditions and proactively fixing them for optimal application delivery across the network. By providing in-depth network and application performance intelligence, ExpandView enables organizations to prioritize and align application traffic with business objectives, automatically resolve network performance problems, while also providing centralized configuration and management for large scale deployments of Expand Networks' ACCELERATORs.

"ExpandView is a great addition to Expand's line of ACCELERATORs," said Jim Kinter, director of IT for Exhibit Dynamics. "The dashboard-like overview coupled with granular monitoring and comprehensive reporting capabilities will provide detailed insight on what's going on in our corporate WAN, which will in turn enable us to make informed decisions regarding network resource allocation."

About ExpandView

-- Automatic Application Discovery: ExpandView can automatically

discover and classify hundreds of applications including SAP,

Oracle, Siebel, Citrix and MS Exchange running over a

distributed enterprise network. Using these classifications,

organizations can selectively accelerate and prioritize

application traffic, giving business-critical applications

priority.

-- Proactive Problem Detection and Self-Healing: Application

performance issues are quickly and easily detected and

automatically resolved by ACCELERATORs when the WAN is

determined to be the underlying cause of the slowdown. The

in-depth intelligence, priority classification and QoS

templates found in ExpandView combined with the ACCELERATOR

WAN compression and optimization device enables companies to

flex their wide area network for optimal application delivery.

-- Detailed Reporting: ExpandView enables organizations to

collect, store and manage performance data. It provides

in-depth reporting capabilities on the state of the network

including performance, throughput, and link utilization, as

well as the state of application performance including

throughput and distribution.

-- Standards-based Centralized ACCELERATOR Management: ExpandView

streamlines the management of ACCLERATOR deployments by

centralizing administration and management tasks into a single

interface making it ideal for large scale deployments.

"The WAN represents the single largest recurring cost, other than people, in IS organizations. Reducing the amount of data by using compression can significantly reduce the amount of bandwidth needed, and either avoid or delay network upgrades," said Gartner Vice President Mark Fabbi.

"Application performance across the WAN is a multi-dimensional challenge. A number of factors including network performance and link utilization as well as application throughput and distribution can all affect applications delivery," said Pedro Colcao, vice president of marketing at Expand Networks. "The powerful combination of ExpandView and the ACCELERATORS insures optimal application delivery across the WAN eliminating the network as the possible culprit of degraded application performance."

ExpandView is Expand Networks' response to the increased uptake of the ACCELERATOR product line in support of large deployments of hundreds and even thousands of units. ExpandView will benefit especially large-scale Expand deployments, as it will offer a global view of corporate networks. Expand has shipped over 16,000 units to more than 700 end-users world-wide.

Expand Networks will be presenting at the upcoming Network World Magazine, "State of the WAN Technology Tour," taking place on Tuesday, December 9, at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, MA. The event titled, "WANs: Answering the Demand for Optimized Services," will focus on disciplined bandwidth management, caching and compression. Expand will discuss ExpandView and other key company solutions. For more information please visit: http://www.nwfusion.com/events/wan/index.html?id=BAEar#overview.

Pricing and Availability

ExpandView pricing begins at $5000 US for a single CPU system. ExpandView is immediately available for testing and will be generally available in January 2004 through Expand's worldwide distribution, reseller, service provider and strategic partner channels.

About Expand Networks

Expand Networks is the leading provider of WAN compression and acceleration appliances with 87% market share. The ACCELERATORs eliminate the need for costly WAN link upgrades by increasing average network capacity by 100-400% with peaks of 1000+%. Expand's patented technology enables quicker deployments of new applications to remote offices. Its unique features - acceleration, traffic discovery, application visibility and Instant QoS allow enterprises to support more networked users, applications and services with fewer resources delivering a typical ROI of 3 to 9 months. Expand has shipped over 16,000 units to more than 700 customers including Motorola, Texas Instruments and the United States Department of Defense. Expand Networks is headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey with offices in Australia, Israel, Italy, South Africa, United Kingdom and throughout the United States. To learn more, visit www.expand.com or call [phone].

Expand Networks, ACCELERATOR 6800, ACCELERATOR 4800, ACCELERATOR 4000, ACCELERATOR 2800, ACCELERATOR 2750, ACCELERATOR 1800 and ExpandView are trademarks of Expand Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.