TELECOM LEADERS SELECTING NETEX'S HYPERIP FOR DELIVERING BC/DR SERVICES TO GLOBAL 2000 CUSTOMERS

Leading providers implementing IP-based business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) services for Global 2000 customers using optimized OC12's

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., September 12, 2005 — NetEx, the worldwide leader in high performance data transport solutions, announced today that its HyperIP DRO(TM) is being deployed by leading telecommunications companies to serve as the standardized platform for optimizing the delivery of IP-based data transfer services for their Global 2000 customers.

NetEx's HyperIP DRO - the industry's first data replication optimizer - enables businesses to achieve the fastest data replication and transfer performance over existing IP networks. Telecom providers implementing HyperIP DRO-based solutions in conjunction with top-of-the-line OC12 leased line connections are well positioned to support business transfers and BC / DR requirements for companies around the world.

HyperIP DRO allows telecom companies to offer corporate clients a non-disruptive and highly optimized IP-based solution that provides superior performance and compression capabilities than FC over IP WAN solutions without the complexity, costs and management headaches associated with these installations. NetEx has been providing telecommunications providers, such as Telstra, an industry leader serving a large percentage of the Australian marketplace, with reliable and stable technology for high-speed data movement since 1985, making HyperIP DRO a logical technology choice for enabling new telecom service offerings.

"Telecommunications providers serve the mission-critical, 24/7 needs of their corporate clients through the delivery of Broadband Internet solutions via satellite and other point-to-point connectivity solutions," said Craig Gust, chief executive officer at NetEx. "With HyperIP, these providers now have additional opportunities to provide their clients with data protection and disaster recovery services while maximizing their existing infrastructure and bandwidth investments. The tools and personalized support available through our HyperChannel reseller program also allows astute resellers and service providers to provide distributed enterprises with an affordable and much simpler solution for replication and data transfer than has been available in the past."

More about HyperIP DRO solutions

HyperIP DRO eliminates the inefficiencies of traditional TCP/IP-based networks by accelerating leading data replication applications critical to supporting business continuance and disaster recovery compliance, and ensure these applications are consistently completed on time. Data replication optimization substantially improves end-to-end performance and compliance, compared with costly and complex FC over IP products. HyperIP DRO works with leading data replication application vendors, such as EMC, NetApp and Symantec (VERITAS) to deliver throughput boosts ranging from 300 to 1,000 percent depending on the application. HyperIP DRO also works with other standard transfer protocols such as FTP and iSCSI replication applications.

About NetEx

Formed in 1999 as a spin-off of Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek(R)), privately-held NetEx has provided the world's fastest data transport in the industry, along with guaranteed data delivery, for over 20 years to more than 100 of the world's largest and most sophisticated organizations, including some of the most prestigious providers of financial, transportation and telecommunications services and government entities. Customers include Telstra, NTT, Verizon, BellSouth, Qwest, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, LloydsTSB, NDC Health, IRS, American, Lufthansa, Northwest, United Airlines and Kellogg. For more information about NetEx, NetEx/IP or HyperIP DRO, visit www.netex.com or call +1 763-694-4300.

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