Shunra Honored with 2008 Technology of the Year Award By IDG's InfoWorld

Business Wire, Jan 8, 2008

Shunra Virtual Enterprise Named Best Network Emulation Tool By InfoWorld's Test Center Editors and Reviewers

NEW YORK -- Shunra (www.shunra.com), the world's leading provider of network emulation solutions, announced today that IDG's InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT decision makers, has named Shunra Virtual Enterprise (VE) Best Network Emulation Tool in its 2008 Technology of the Year awards. Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the annual awards identify "technology that matters" -- the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape for 2008.

"Our technology of the year award winners represent not only the cream of the crop, but the best products in the most important product categories," said Doug Dineley, InfoWorld's Test Center Executive Editor. "These are the products at the leading edge of IT. They are pushing information technology where business needs it to go."

The InfoWorld article announcing Shunra as an award winner states, "Anyone who needs to test enterprise-wide applications over varying conditions should give the Shunra VE WAN emulation suite a good, hard look. It provides the tools needed to construct realistic test scenarios and capture all relevant data about the traffic over the WAN."

In the InfoWorld review of Shunra VE 5.0, written by Keith Schultz on September 7, 2007, Schultz states, "I have seen the (Shunra VE) product mature to the point where it has to be considered an indispensable tool for anyone rolling out a new network-based product or needing to know how a data replication will perform across the WAN. Overall, the Shunra VE is a fantastic platform from which to test applications and devices over nearly real-world WAN emulations."

The InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards are chosen annually by executive editor and head of reviews Doug Dineley, the InfoWorld Test Center, and its numerous contributors, all of whom consider the hundreds of products InfoWorld has reviewed during the past 12 months and then decide upon the winners. This year, 49 awards were presented in nine general categories, "several of them featuring the most ingenious solutions we've encountered in years," according to InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr. Full results appear on InfoWorld.com.

"We are very pleased and honored to have been chosen as a Technology of the Year award winner by one of the industry's most respected IT publications," said Thomas Charlton, Shunra CEO. "To be singled out among our peers and industry experts as the outstanding product in our category, and as one of the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape in 2008, further reinforces Shunra's leadership position in the industry. Shunra remains the only company to deliver integrated software and hardware network emulation solutions and turnkey services which enable companies to predict network and application impact during the entire development lifecycle. According to a recent Aberdeen report, Best-in-Class companies realize the strategic importance of Shunra's approach and are increasingly simulating the network environment in pre-deployment testing."

Shunra VE, upon which the InfoWorld award was bestowed, is a highly robust, comprehensive network emulation solution which creates a virtual network environment in the pre-deployment network lab. It delivers a powerful, flexible and easy way to test the performance of applications and network equipment under a wide variety of network impairments - exactly as if they were running in a real production environment. Helping organizations understand the impact of new technology rollouts on network and application performance, Shunra VE resolves any related issues before they impact end-users.

About InfoWorld Media Group

InfoWorld Media Group helps IT Decision Makers choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy for business impact at their organizations. InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at www.infoworld.com

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