Expand Networks Awarded US Army WIN-T Optimization Contract

Business Wire, April 3, 2008

ROSELAND, N.J. -- Expand Networks (www.expand.com), the leading provider of WAN Optimization solutions for mobile networks, today announced that General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) and the United States Army awarded the Warfighter Information Network - Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2-3 TCP Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) contract to Expand Networks.

Expand Networks is porting the Accelerator Operating System to General Dynamics' WIN-T hardware platform. The Expand PEP will operate in a mobile ad-hoc environment where dynamic outbound links are created and broken frequently, thereby providing the Warfighter with maximum communications efficiency on the move as well as at the halt.

According to GDC4S, WIN-T is the U.S. Army's on-the-move, high-speed, high-capacity backbone communications network, which links ground level warfighters with commanders and the Global Information Grid, the U.S. Dept. of Defense's worldwide network-centric information system. WIN-T is a critical enabler of LandWarNet, the Army's far-reaching effort to transform into joint, network-centric, knowledge-based warfare. The network provides a lucid operational snapshot for theater combatant commanders by using true satellite on-the-move capabilities, robust network management and high-bandwidth radio systems to keep mobile forces connected, communicating and synchronized at all times. (For more information on WIN-T, refer to: http://www.gdc4s.com/news/detail.cfm?prid=197)

"Expand Networks has long and widespread experience with national security communications programs at sea, on land and in the air," said Howard Teicher, Expand Network's Vice President for Public Sector & Satellite Markets. "Operating enterprise-class applications over low bandwidth-high latency satellite links demands a dynamic, robust WAN Optimization capability to satisfy the users' performance requirements. Porting the Expand Accelerator Operating System to the Army's WIN-T architecture demonstrates the power and flexibility of Expand's technology and our ability to deliver high performance mobile communications, while saving taxpayer resources."

Positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant in their Magic Quandrant for WAN Optimization 2007 Report, Expand's complete WAN Optimization solution will be available on the WIN-T blade to increase throughput, accelerate application performance and interoperate with other communications nodes equipped with Space Communications Protocol Standard (SCPS- TP) Acceleration devices. The Expand PEP mitigates the effects of latency and ensures that tactical networks deliver maximum performance.

Since its initial 1999 rollout in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), more than 9,000 Expand Accelerators have been deployed in networks throughout the US government and in all branches of the United States Military. Battle-proven in Afghanistan and Iraq with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, Expand accelerators are also deployed in U.S. government enterprise networks, such as the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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