Streamcore Unveils StreamSense 5.0 to Boost Application Performance and Visibility.

Streamcore's Patented ABBA Engine Automatically Accelerates Performance-Sensitive Traffic and Dynamically Prioritizes Business Applications to Guarantee Consistent and Predictable Performance

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Streamcore, the leading global provider of automated application visibility and control for business critical networks, today introduced its new StreamSense 5.0 platform. The new StreamSense platform provides enterprises and service providers real-time visibility and control over network and application performance by combining visibility into application performance with automated application control and streamlined network management to support business goals and enable network productivity.

To efficiently manage application delivery over the WAN, StreamSense 5.0 combines strong centralized management and provisioning capabilities, real-time monitoring tied to application performance control and instant reporting. StreamSense 5.0 can be deployed at central data centers and major sites to manage and automate application and network operations throughout the WAN, delivering relevant, important performance information to network professionals so they can focus on their most critical network issues.

"Today's organizations need complete visibility into and control of networks, so that business critical applications are managed and delivered most effectively," said Dr. Jim Metzler, principal analyst at Ashton, Metzler & Associates. "By empowering networks with this centralized visibility, companies like Streamcore facilitate collaboration between IT teams and even across business units and branches to ensure utmost productivity and the knowledge to be able to commit IT resources to a network's most pressing issues."

According to Nemertes Research, less than 10 percent of enterprise employees work at a headquarters office; the majority are located in branch offices. In turn, branch offices consume 70 to 90 percent of business resources. Nemertes also estimates that 31 percent of IT budgets are eaten up by recurring WAN costs. Increasingly, enterprises are consolidating IT infrastructures into centralized data centers or outsourcing to service providers in an effort to reduce costs, increase control and improve availability.

With StreamSense 5.0, IT professionals can guarantee consistent and predictable performance at the application level due to Streamcore's ABBA engine (Application Behavior-Based Acceleration) technology. ABBA dynamically adapts to application behavior in real-time according to the amount of traffic, instantaneous bandwidth requirements and the number of users. Network administrators set "weights" to each application according to business needs, used to determine the priority of the associated data streams. StreamSense 5.0 does this by employing patented algorithms that process, prioritize, and speed up any type of IP traffic. As a result, performance-sensitive and business-critical applications are ensured priority and application performance is faster and more consistent for individual users.

StreamSense 5.0 takes application delivery management beyond mere acceleration. It also enhances insight into application performance and usage while sharing real-time monitoring and reporting results among IT teams - application managers, network professionals and business unit managers, to facilitate collaboration in meeting broader IT goals. StreamSense 5.0 provides unique services like real-time measurements, troubleshooting tools, on-demand reporting and web portals that all combine to guarantee successful application deployments that increase productivity and collaboration.

Additionally, StreamSense 5.0 provides not only visibility and control, but also unparalleled centralized, management functionality. Now, managing a new application, creating a portal or PDF report, and accessing the right real-time information can now be done in seconds. All configuration and statistics information are structured according to business and IT needs making organization of reporting information intuitive and relevant.

"Today's IT organizations are in dire need of more network visibility and automated control to improve overall application performance, particularly for business critical applications," said Eric Jeux, chief executive officer of Streamcore. "By automatically monitoring, adapting and optimizing application performance with StreamSense 5.0, Streamcore goes far beyond mere application acceleration, to crack the code on making networks smarter, increasing network efficiency and reducing costs associated with WAN operations."

About Streamcore

Streamcore is a global provider of application acceleration and application performance management technology that monitors, accelerates and reports application and network performance. Utilizing patented Application Behavior Based Acceleration (ABBA) technology, Streamcore delivers global, real-time, automated network visibility and network control over new converged WAN and wireless networks. With Streamcore, service providers can offer application SLAs while managing and provisioning new revenue-generating network services and enterprises can guarantee application performance. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., the company's technology is field-proven with more than 200 global customers across 15,000 sites, including numerous service providers and Global 1000 enterprises such as L'Oreal, Brinks and Philips. More information can be found at http://www.streamcore.com.