Shunra and Expand Networks Partner to Ensure Optimal Distributed Application Performance before Production Rollout; Relationship Leverages Both Companies' Industry-Leading Technologies to Accelerate Network and Application Performance

Business Wire, June 26, 2006

NEW YORK & ROSELAND, N.J. -- Shunra Software, a leading provider of predictive application and network performance assurance solutions, and Expand Networks, a leading provider of application acceleration solutions over the WAN, today announced a strategic alliance which provides joint customers with the ability to accurately predict the current and future behavior of applications and services and optimize the network impact on application performance in distributed business environments before deployment in production.

Shunra Virtual Enterprise (Shunra VE) is an award-winning network simulation technology that recreates an exact model of any production network environment. This includes the network, network traffic, remote locations and the number and distribution of local and remote end-users. Using Shunra VE, users can test and predict the functionality, performance and scalability of current and future behavior of applications and services across complex networks before rollout into production.

Expand Networks' Compass is the first wide area networking application acceleration platform that tightly integrates multiple technologies and maps them to the corresponding business mandates. This approach helps IT departments navigate and manage network complexities that impact application, user and business productivity.

"There is no question that WAN optimization products such as Expand Networks' Compass enable server and application consolidation. But predicting performance levels that would be available to the remote users with the new consolidated infrastructure can still be a guessing game until the actual implementation occurs. The Shunra/Expand Proof of Concept Testing Scenario can predict performance under various bandwidth and distance scenarios before the infrastructure is implemented. This not only avoids over-purchase of equipment but can save weeks or months of time while delivering predictable performance to the remote user," said Arun Taneja, Consulting Analyst with the Taneja Group.

"This alliance provides a world-class solution that removes the ambiguity our customers face when anticipating the effects of deploying applications in a newly centralized environment," said Christopher Williams, Chief Marketing Officer, Expand Networks. "Moving forward, we will empower our customers with a sophisticated test plan that provides IT organizations with more accurate predictive analysis into how networked applications will function, perform and scale for remote end-users."

The joint-effort initiative provides customers with a comprehensive proof-of-concept testing solution to ensure optimal distributed application performance. Expand Compass users can now optimize the functionality and performance of distributed applications and infrastructure under production network conditions with Shunra VE, well before deployment in production. The Shunra and Expand Networks joint offering is ideal for a wide variety of applications and projects including data center consolidation/centralization and server relocation projects, web applications deployment, disaster recovery initiatives, satellite communications, voice and data convergence, and network capacity planning and MPLS optimization.

"The combined offering from Shunra and Expand Networks gives customers the solutions they need to accurately visualize the performance of their application acceleration technology under realistic production network conditions during the development process," said Boaz Grinvald, CEO, Shunra. "This alliance will enable customers to address complex performance requirements before rollout, and give them the confidence to know that their applications will meet service level objectives when deployed in production."

About Shunra

Shunra is the pioneer and market leader in predicting the behavior of services across today's complex networks. The Shunra VE solution suites 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, Holland, Sweden, Australia, Japan and India. Shunra is also supported through a global network of channel partners. For more information, please visit www.shunra.com.

About Expand Networks