Bivio Wins ''Most Innovative Hardware Solution'' Award at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo; Company Wins Top Award With Its Bivio 2000 Network Appliance

Business Wire, August 21, 2006

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Bivio Networks, the leader in high-speed network appliance platforms for delivery of deep-packet-processing applications, today announced that its Bivio 2000 platform won the "Most Innovative Hardware Solution" award at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(R) in San Francisco. The LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards, managed by the editors of Linux Journal, were announced at the show on August 16.

"We are very pleased to receive this prestigious award from Linux Journal, recognizing our Bivio 2000 network appliance platform as the most innovative hardware solution available to Linux application developers, network equipment manufacturers, and systems integrators," said Elan Amir, president and CEO of Bivio. "Bivio has launched a new era in networking, addressing software developers' demands that have been created by emerging network applications such as security, traffic management, and mobility. These applications increasingly combine deep-packet processing with high-speed networking throughput and performance demands."

The Bivio 2000 is an open, high-performance, programmable network appliance that combines a groundbreaking, scalable, multiprocessor architecture with a software platform that includes a standard Linux-based execution environment and a comprehensive set of networking features. This architecture is specifically optimized for wire-speed execution of critical network infrastructure solutions requiring deep packet processing at multi-gigabit speeds such as security, traffic management, application acceleration, VoIP, and mobility applications.

"The networking industry greatly benefits from Bivio's network appliances, as software developers and network equipment manufacturers can now quickly and easily deploy higher-performance solutions," said Tim Waters, Bivio's vice president of marketing. "The B2000 incorporates a standard Linux development and execution environment, allowing developers to concentrate on optimizing the unique aspects of their networking software solutions while minimizing any hardware investment."

Linux Leads Transformation in Networking

Linux-based software applications are causing a fundamental technology transformation in networking. Networking has evolved from a simple hardware-driven switching and routing medium, requiring little processing beyond the packet header, to a software-driven policy management and enforcement engine providing complex networking applications such as security, application acceleration, traffic management, and VoIP QoS.

Platforms processing these applications must perform a combination of deep packet inspection and real-time content processing, which requires the flexibility to adapt to new user behavior, protocols, payload types, and more, without sacrificing wire speeds. Until now, however, achieving this combination of speed and flexibility has been elusive. ASIC-based networking devices combine policy and processing into silicon, sacrificing packet-processing flexibility for speed. Server-based platforms are not designed for packet processing and thus sacrifice speed for flexibility.

The Bivio 2000 delivers both high-performance packet processing and policy management and enforcement in an open, general-purpose network appliance platform combining superior hardware architecture with a comprehensive set of networking software features and value-add functions. Linux developers can achieve instant differentiation by using this standard Linux environment to quickly port any Linux-based networking application or concurrent applications to the Bivio 2000 and take full advantage of the appliance's system capabilities. Unique Bivio scaling technology allows Linux application developers to scale each type of resource to satisfy the requirements of differing applications and achieve unmatched application performance.

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About LinuxWorld Conference & Expo

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is the premier event exclusively focused on Linux and open source solutions. As the world's most comprehensive marketplace for open source products and services, LinuxWorld provides business decision-makers with information and resources to implement Linux and open source solutions into business infrastructure and enterprise networks. For more information or to register for the event, visit the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Web site at www.linuxworldexpo.com, or call (800) 657-1474. For exhibiting opportunities, please contact Ellen Boland at (508) 988-7830 or ellen_boland@idg.com or Christian Montminy at (508) 424-4852 or christian_montminy@idg.com.