Shunra VE 4.5 Predicts Application Performance Over the Internet, and Over Cellular, Wireless Networks - Before Rollout.

NEW YORK -- Industry-Leading Network Simulation Technology now Creates eCommerce and Cellular, Wireless Testing Environments in Pre-Production

Shunra Software Ltd., a leading provider of predictive application and network performance assurance solutions, today announced version 4.5 of its Shunra Virtual Enterprise (Shunra VE) solution. Shunra VE is award-winning technology that simulates any production network environment in a pre-production environment, including the network, remote locations, and the number and distribution of local and remote end-users. With Shunra VE 4.5 users can automatically test the functionality, performance, scalability and robustness of applications and network infrastructure under current and future real-world conditions -- before deployment in production. This latest release of Shunra VE includes new features that focus on some of today's most critical technology challenges, including delivering content to thousands of users all over the world via the Internet, and developing applications for wireless and cellular networks.

"Shunra VE 4.5 gives us visibility into the future performance of our CRM application, enabling us and our infrastructure vendor to identify and correct a critical performance problem - before rollout. Using Shunra VE to visualize the application impact on our corporate network also helped us implement dynamic routing and packet shaping to meet performance expectations. Shunra VE played a big part in eliminating the risk of this large-scale application deployment. We aren't making any assumptions about how the application will perform - we know," said Brian Reuter, Sr. Database Administrator at AVSC, the leading provider of audiovisual equipment and technology support to the conference and event industry. "One of the best things about Shunra VE 4.5 is how easy it is to install, program, and visualize what happens in the production environment. The learning curve was non-existent!"

Validating the Performance and Scalability of Internet Sites

Shunra VE 4.5 accurately simulates the Internet environment, including hundreds or even thousands of virtual end-users around the world accessing a website over a near limitless number of network links, and using any type of connection - dial up, cable modem and/or xDSL. With Shunra VE 4.5's Internet simulation capabilities, users can discover website or web application performance flaws and bottlenecks before rollout over the Internet, validate the impact of proposed changes to a website or to a web application to see if they will deliver expected improvements to end-users, or know whether a website or web application can handle seasonal utilization peaks. Additionally, Shunra VE enables users to determine what infrastructure investments are needed, and whether they will actually answer performance requirements.

Pre-Deployment Testing of Applications over Cellular and Wireless Networks

Shunra VE 4.5 simulates the idiosyncrasies of cellular and wireless networks - including physical mobility, inter-cell user "handoffs," and LOS (line-of-sight) - as well as network parameters such as limited bandwidth, congestion, channel "noise," and QoS. Furthermore, with Shunra VE 4.5 users can easily create "mobility scenarios" that model the end-users' actual quality-of-experience as they move across and between cells.

With these new features, Shunra VE 4.5 enables users to test application performance over wireless or cellular networks and discover flaws in application design from the earliest stages of the development and testing lifecycle, as well as access the impact of new applications on an existing wireless or cellular network, or model the impact of proposed network build-outs and/or improvements - without the need or cost of building a dedicated testing environment.

Additional Features in Shunra VE 4.5

Shunra VE 4.5 also offers a variety of additional enhancements, including:

--New functionality to design, test, implement and maintain MPLS networks.

--Advanced filtering capabilities that allow users to fine-tune network simulation conditions based on VLAN tags, MPLS labels, TOS\DSCP, IP or TCP header fields, and any bit pattern inside packet headers and/or payloads.

--Enhanced integration with third-party testing automation tools from Borland and Mercury Interactive.

--Additional SLA analysis and reports.

"The latest release of our industry-leading Shunra VE solution answers the needs of IT staff who are tasked with delivering consistent performance across the enterprise despite multiple variables like fluctuating conditions encountered on wireless and cellular networks, the Internet, and on enterprise networks," said Boaz Grinvald, Shunra CEO. "Like previous versions, Shunra VE 4.5 focuses on anticipating the needs of our customers in relation to the evolving role of networks in addressing business needs."

About Shunra Software

Shunra is the pioneer and market leader in predicting the behavior of services across today's complex networks. The Shunra VE solution lets users know exactly how their voice, video and business applications will perform in any network environment - before they are rolled out into production. Used by network experts, software developers and architects, and QA/testing professionals, Shunra VE gives users a way to apply a working model of the networked production environment to every phase of the application lifecycle - from design and development through QA and operations - so IT organizations can quickly and more efficiently uncover and resolve problems before they impact the business. Over 1,600 leading companies use Shunra's award-winning solutions including 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra's headquarters are located in New York City, and the company has a major R&D center in Israel, and offices in the UK, Sweden, India and Australia. Shunra is also supported through a global network of channel partners. For more information, please visit www.shunra.com.

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