New Web Enabled Enterprise Application Accelerator Speeds Secure Corporate Intranets, Portals and Enterprise Applications.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2003

Redline Networks introduced a new data center appliance that provides secure, accelerated web application access across the enterprise. Redline Networks' E/X 3250 Enterprise Web I/O Accelerator is the first Layer 7 data center appliance that automatically enables SSL security, accelerates application transaction performance and enables existing equipment to handle greater transaction capacity with increased reliability. The appliance, priced at $29,995, is available immediately.

Redline Networks' E/X 3250 Enterprise Web I/O Accelerator provides greater security and performance for applications such as those from PeopleSoft, Lotus, Siebel, SAP or custom web applications. The appliance can be deployed in less than one hour with no down time, speeds application access time up to 90%, doubles network efficiency to branch offices and remote users, increases enterprise application serving capacity up to 5 times and provides immediate network and application security.

The Accelerator's Auto SSL feature may be set to automatically rewrite all HTTP requests to HTTPS, enabling enterprise sites to benefit from the secure sockets layer (SSL) capability embedded in Internet browsers, without the need to rewrite the application or make changes to the users' browsers. Protocol scrubbing protects servers from malicious attacks by rewriting HTTP and TCP packets in real-time.

Remote users gain faster access to web-enabled enterprise applications like CRM and faster downloads through secure enterprise application portals like Plumtree and through web-enabled VPNs. Users gain immediate performance improvement, essential for enterprise applications where usability, speed, and security are important to user perceptions and productivity.

"Redline Networks' Enterprise Web I/O Accelerator has improved the level of performance and security in our data center while reducing application complexity and cost," said Ed Romero, deputy secretary and CIO of The State of New Mexico's Revenue and Taxation administrative services division. "By adding the E/X 3250 we have been able to deliver significantly improved application performance and cost savings compared to alternative solutions. We've built a statewide Department of Motor Vehicles intranet that enables us to provide secure services through Web browsers with substantially increased application performance and customer privacy. Performance on 56 Kbps lines equals the performance we used to provide on T-1 circuits."

"The E/X 3250 Enterprise Web I/O Accelerator builds on our success accelerating, securing and improving the performance of many of the world's highest-traffic public web sites. We've designed in capabilities that our enterprise customers have identified as being critical to providing secure, rapid and seamless enterprise application access," said Roy Johnson, president and CEO of Redline Networks. "This technology is particularly critical for enterprises with distributed locations and mobile workers that require access to web-enabled applications through public and private networks. Our accelerators provide infrastructure savings and deliver a remarkable application acceleration benefit to all dynamic, secure and static traffic."

"Redline Networks has developed a unique software architecture that allows various critical request/response processing functions that previously bogged down servers to be offloaded, resulting in a much more efficient application delivery infrastructure," said Mark Hoover, president of Acuitive, Inc. "Prior to this, the barrier to secure intranets has been implementation complexity and performance-degradation. Redline Networks is building on its proven ability to provide infrastructure savings and application acceleration, now adding more capability specifically tailored to enterprise and intranet applications."

Redline Networks' E/X 3250 Enterprise Web I/O Accelerator appliance speeds application processing by decreasing the I/O workload on servers, minimizing the process scheduling and context swapping burden on the server. With TCP, HTTP and HTTPS processing moved to the Redline Networks Accelerator, individual user transactions are performed more quickly and far more users can be supported. The appliance incorporates TCP connection offload and Layer 7 features like request balancing, request multiplexing and server health checking. Redline Networks` E/X 3250 Web I/O Accelerator cuts bandwidth use through data optimization, data filtering and compression policy engines.

About Redline Networks

Redline Networks' Web I/O Acceleration appliances enable companies to significantly accelerate download times and cut bandwidth costs while increasing the transaction capacity and security of their existing web infrastructure. Deployed at web sites and enterprises worldwide, Redline Networks' appliances offload I/O responsibility from web, cache, and application servers and optimize content in real-time to speed download times and radically improve data center performance, capacity, cost savings and security. Redline Networks' customers typically experience a Return on Investment (ROI) of less than three months. More information about Redline Networks and its products can be found at http://www.RedlineNetworks.com or by calling 408/369-3800 or toll-free in the USA at 877/550-6420.

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In the product name E/X noted in this news release, there is a pipe symbol between E and X.