Corvil Announces General Availability of Its Core Agent Technology in Cisco IOS Software

Business Wire, June 1, 2005

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Corvil Bandwidth Agent Now Available on Cisco Routers, Including Cisco ISRs, Through the 12.4 Mainline Release of Cisco IOS Software

Corvil, a leader in bandwidth quality analysis and control for predictable network performance at optimal cost, today announced the general availability of its core agent technology for millisecond measurement and quantification of bandwidth quality on packet-switched networks within Cisco IOS(R) Software on Cisco 800 to 7200 routers, including the latest family of Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs).

The Corvil Bandwidth agent in Cisco IOS Software provides network managers with a fundamental breakthrough in the ability to design and control Quality of Service to deliver predictable performance for data, video and voice applications over IP, leveraging existing Cisco QoS functionality in the network infrastructure. The unique innovation of Corvil Bandwidth technology lies in its ability to detect network events with millisecond granularity and to compute in real-time the bandwidth required to achieve statistically-defined latency, jitter and packet loss targets for any application.

Donal Byrne, Corvil President & CEO, stated, "The availability of the Corvil Bandwidth agent in Cisco IOS Software is central to providing a fully scalable solution to intelligent instrumentation of the network that does not require an additional box deployed at every branch office location. Our customers will now be able to use the Corvil product suite transparently across both Cisco IOS Software routers and Corvil appliances to monitor, analyze and control bandwidth quality for their entire network from large data centers to smaller remote sites."

Activating the Corvil Bandwidth feature in Cisco IOS Software allows the network manager to immediately apply the technology to link sizing/troubleshooting and protection of critical classes of application traffic on the network, while combining it with the broader CorvilNet product suite will enable more powerful analysis and control capabilities for full network base-lining, QoS design and bandwidth quality monitoring.

Cisco IOS Software is the most widely leveraged network infrastructure software in the world, currently operating on over ten million active systems ranging from the small home office router to the core systems of the world's largest enterprise and service provider networks. Corvil Bandwidth is available immediately as a new feature in the current 12.4 mainline release of Cisco IOS Software and can be deployed by purchasing the appropriate feature license from Cisco.

About Corvil

Corvil was founded in 2000 with the "IP Certainty" vision of making networks based on Internet Protocol (IP) technology both predictable and efficient. The CorvilNet platform instruments the existing IP network with a unique capability to measure, monitor and control precisely the bandwidth requirement for any application to run at a specified quality of service. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company's investors include Apax Partners, Cisco Systems and ACT Venture Capital.

Additional information on Corvil is available from the company web site at www.corvil.com.

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