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Anagran Works With HP to Solve Government IP Traffic Logjams

Business Wire, May 1, 2008

Solutions Solve Delay Problems Faced By Satellite and Radio Networks

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Anagran has signed an agreement with HP for the distribution of Anagran high-capacity flow management products to federal, state and local government agencies. The agreement is designed to allow government organizations to protect their networks from overload and ensure the performance and quality of key applications, even over WANs consisting of high-loss, high-delay satellite and radio links. These organizations will also gain from Anagran's effective real-time management of capacity-hungry applications such as streaming video, P2P, gaming and video-on-demand which consume a greater share of network bandwidth that slows, and sometimes cripples network performance.

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Existing TCP/IP networks were designed to handle last generation applications such as email, Web browsing, and file transfer. As a result, government IT staff faces the challenge of addressing the performance gap between the embedded network technology and the new, more aggressive applications that flood the network. Simply adding routers or bandwidth capacity does not adequately address these problems. Moreover, for government networks that make generous use of satellite, secure cellular, and radio links, excessive transit delay has historically been an especially troublesome challenge.

Anagran's FR-1000 high-capacity flow manager product was subjected to a battery of tests within the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), which serves customers in the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. Coupled with Anagran's support of the industry-standard TIA-1039 enhanced signaling protocol for TCP/IP, the FR-1000 displayed reductions in delay over satellite links of over 20:1. The product also proved its ability to selectively rate-manage various traffic types (e.g., VoIP, Video, interactive, bulk) by policies to ensure desired performance and quality, a key requirement in a number of Federal applications.

Anagran products eliminate the TCP traffic jam by filling the performance and quality gap that currently exists between L2/L3 routers and the various popular methods of WAN optimization, including compression, caching, data reduction, and TCP "spoofing." Whether traffic consists of file transfer, video downloads, voice calls or standard data traffic, the FR-1000 ensures the optimal performance of all traffic flows and automatically protects networks from ad-hoc or systemic performance-damaging traffic. Anagran products instantly improve the performance, quality, and effective capacity of any network by dynamically grooming the entire traffic mix in response to actual network capacity.

"The FR-1000 instantly addresses the current and impending traffic logjams that most government entities face today. This isn't an isolated problem. Where there is voice, video, legacy applications, and network links of finite capacity, network performance challenges are inevitable, especially over satellite and radio-based links," said Kim Niederman, CEO of Anagran. "HP has earned its reputation as a trusted source of solutions for real world government IT problems and our agreement with the company will help our peers in government quickly and cost-effectively put their network traffic issues to rest."

"Most of our customers, whether in the Department of Defense, civilian agencies such as FEMA and NASA, or local government, face a common challenge of increasing network traffic straining existing infrastructures, especially over high-delay satellite and radio links," said Mike Freeman, vice president of Consulting and Integration for the Federal business at HP. "This can result in data loss, increased re-transmissions, and noticeably slower application performance. By working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and partners such as Anagran, HP is developing solutions to address the unique needs of customers within the Federal space."

The agreement also calls for Anagran and HP to undertake joint marketing and sales activities by participating in government-related forums, joint customer presentations, webinars, and the development of customer based marketing collateral.

Government organizations interested in acquiring more information about Anagran solutions can contact Vernon L. M. Brokke, Sr., Director of Federal Sales for Anagran at (410) 788-1894, VBrokke@anagran.com.

About Anagran

Anagran's Fast Flow Technology (FFT) protects networks, routers, and links from overload while also ensuring required performance and quality for all traffic types. Anagran's products eliminate the potentially crippling effects of traffic congestion to enable video, voice, data and wireless traffic to co-exist and grow with flawless quality over converged IP networks. Anagran's FR-1000 fills the performance gap between routers and WAN optimization techniques to consistently deliver the highest levels of guaranteed performance and quality, while significantly reducing overall and recurring network costs and energy consumption. Anagran was founded by Internet pioneer Dr. Larry Roberts, recognized as one of the founding fathers of the Internet. Information about Anagran can be found at www.anagran.com.

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Anagran Works With HP to Solve Government IP Traffic Logjams

Business Wire, May 1, 2008

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