Expand Networks' Liad Ofek Speaking on Panel of Industry Experts about Branch Office Optimization at Fall Interop

Business Wire, Oct 22, 2007

NEW YORK & ROSELAND, N.J. -- Expand Networks www.expand.com, a leading provider of application acceleration solutions over the wide area network (WAN), and recently positioned in the Gartner's Leaders Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers 2006, today announced that Liad Ofek, VP Technical Services, will be part of a panel discussion focusing on branch office best practices at Fall Interop 2007 (www.interop.com). The session will take place on October 24, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at New York City's Javits Center.

Moderated by Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates, the panel, titled "Branch Office Optimization," will address the common obstacles that companies face with remote offices applications performance. The group of experts will identify the types of issues that cause poor application performance and will focus on a comparison of technology options to conquer this prevalent pain point for the enterprise.

Expand Networks' suite of multipoint solutions is driven by the Compass Platform which reliably integrates technologies for WAN Optimization, Acceleration, Management & Visibility, WAFS and Security and maps them to the business mandates for business agility, resulting in improved user productivity and cost effective IT management.

"No matter what the size of the network is or the distance between multiple branch offices, the top-of-mind concern that IT and Network professionals want to achieve is the reduction of infrastructure costs, combating latency, increase application performance while maintaining full network integrity," said Amy Peraza, Vice President of Marketing, Expand Networks. "Liad Ofek is the right person to address these points as his years of WAN Optimization and networking experience makes him one of the most technically-minded professionals. Liad's real-life customer experiences will illustrate what really works and what is smoke and mirrors when it comes to the many permutations of network and branch office configurations."

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About Expand Networks

Expand Networks is the pioneer and leader in helping organizations simplify their IT infrastructure while delivering remote offices fast, reliable and secure access to networked applications. This results in improved user productivity and cost-effective IT management. Expand offers a multi-service integrated platform that ensures superior performance for any application over any network. From its headquarters in Roseland, NJ and its global locations, Expand Networks (www.expand.com) serves more than 1,450 enterprise and government customers including: American Express, Bacardi USA, BMW, Continental Airlines, Carr America, Colgate, Elizabeth Arden, Reed Exhibitions, Target and United States Department of Defense.

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