Coyote Point Introduces New Equalizer SI Series for ''Pay As You Grow'' Web Sites and Server Farms; New Web Performance Optimization Appliances Ideal for Datacenters That Standardize on Commodity Intel-Powered Rackmount and Blade Servers

Business Wire, May 3, 2005

LAS VEGAS -- Coyote Point Systems, Inc. announced its new Equalizer SI Series, Web server performance optimization appliances built to address the core availability and performance requirements of mainstream Web sites and server farms. The new Equalizer SI Series systems integrate an enhanced version of Coyote Point's adaptive server load balancing and traffic management software, consolidated switch intelligence and the latest Intel processor-based performance.

Equalizer SI Series systems deliver a range of advanced and highly adaptive server/network load balancing and cluster management capabilities for datacenter environments that require the high-end reliability, performance and scalability of "big iron" servers with the low, incremental cost of ownership now possible with today's commodity servers.

Industry estimates from IDC and others forecast that the majority of volume server deployments are moving to the popular rackmount and blade form factors. The Equalizer SI Series provides datacenters with a highly adaptive and incrementally scalable way to standardize on these commodity server environments that are increasingly favored by e-commerce, government, education, finance, media and other online business operations.

The new Equalizer SI Series family includes the enterprise-class E450si, mid-range E350si and entry-level E250si. New features and enhancements include:

--Consolidated switching capacity of up to 16 ports with managed intelligence for integrated datacenter front end topologies

--Support for up to 8,000,000 concurrent connections with wire-speed throughput

--Incrementally scalable load balancing and traffic management for an unlimited number of virtual servers and up to 64 servers per cluster

--Adaptive protection against massive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks

--Built-in flash memory for zero-downtime reliability

--Enhanced SSL acceleration for up to 4,000 encrypted transactions per second

--Expanded "match rules" to provide additional content switching options

--Enhanced Web interface for point-and-click operation of configuration options

"Coyote Point has consistently focused on delivering cost-effective load balancing appliances that exploit the capabilities and price point of high-volume server platforms," said Peter Christy, Principal of Internet Research Group, a Silicon Valley analyst organization that has tracked the server load balancing and traffic management market since its inception. "Over the last seven years, the power in those servers has increased dramatically due to 'Moore's Law' semiconductor improvements -- a doubling every 18 months -- compounded by improved communications power. We are now at a point where these cost-effective products are more than powerful enough and complete enough to serve the needs of a large part of the market at a sensible but disruptive price point. The advancing power of inexpensive servers is what's disruptive and in turn enables Coyote Point to disrupt the traditional price points in this market to the great benefit of the consumer."

"Other traffic management and application front end vendors focus solely on the highest end," said Bill Kish, President and CEO of Coyote Point. "These vendors require the 'everyman' datacenter customer to buy very expensive systems with over-built capacity and difficult-to-implement features required by only a handful of specialized users. Our unique approach provides 'scalable increments' of essential front end optimization, switching, acceleration and security. Datacenters with high-traffic Web sites and server farms can adapt server capacity and utilization to real-time loads and conditions without over-spending. Our Equalizer SI Series systems stand out in today's competitive marketplace and provide compelling ROI by letting datacenter managers acquire just-right levels of server and networking infrastructure as they need it."

Coyote Point's new Equalizer SI Series systems address the rapidly emerging requirement for consolidation and virtualization in today's mainstream datacenter front end architectures. Coyote Point's Equalizer systems work transparently and adaptively across datacenter environments with high-performance multi-server clusters or fractional virtual servers running hundreds of smaller applications.

Equalizer SI Series systems are based on Version 8 of Coyote Point's Traffic Optimization Engine, a high-performance kernel-level network acceleration platform that ensures non-stop reliability, availability and scalability for:

--Low-overhead, highly adaptive load balancing and cluster management of Web sites running the pervasive Apache and Microsoft IIS Web server software

--Essential server/network load balancing algorithms, including weighted server latency, server latency, weighted least connections, round robin, weighted round robin, least connections and direct server measurements

--Support for TCP application and network services, including HTTP, HTTPS/TLS, DNS, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, FTP, streaming media, Active Server Pages and SQL as well as UDP gateway services, including DNS, WAP and RADIUS