NetEx Announces High-Availability Option For Fastest WAN IP Data Transfer Accelerator

HyperIP Provides Production Hardened IP Application Acceleration

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 22, 2004—NetEx® - provider of the world's fastest guaranteed data transport-announced today that its latest release of HyperIP® includes support for an optional new high-availability feature designed to meet demanding data center requirements for redundancy. Automatic Hot-Standby (AHS), based on an implementation of the standard Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), provides a fully redundant failover capability when two HyperIP appliances are configured as hot standby pairs. AHS also supports partial and non-redundant HyperIP configurations.

NetEx CEO Craig Gust noted, "Full data protection through high-availability is an important addition to our HyperIP product for many enterprises with multiple data centers connected by IP WANs. HyperIP 3.0 provides even greater resiliency for mission critical applications that require an easy-to-implement, application-transparent business continuity/disaster recovery capability.

Added Gust, "HyperIP alleviates TCP/IP degradation associated with longer (200-plus miles) transmissions and eliminates TCP/IP throughput and latency performance issues. The product also shields applications from network variations, such as jitter and bit errors and efficiently compresses traffic which reduces operating costs associated expensive bandwidth used with applications such as storage networking."

HyperIP is a simple appliance that attaches to existing network infrastructures via standard 100MB or GigE interfaces and can be easily configured via a browser interface and requires no changes to servers, applications or network devices. In the optional AHS configuration, two HyperIP appliances on the same side of the network serve "master" and "backup" roles. In a failover event, the backup appliance becomes the new master. When the failing appliance recovers, it assumes the role of backup.

In addition to AHS, HyperIP 3.0 has added an option to easily enable or disable its data compression feature through the browser Interface and the implementation of HyperIP MIB2 definitions.

HyperIP's fast-start, data-blocking and window-size enhancement capabilities optimize bandwidth utilization to provide users 3-1 OX performance improvements in remote storage applications with 90 percent IP line utilization, versus typical 10 to 30 percent utilization with standard TCP/IP. HyperlP's adaptive compression features further enhances application throughput performance with compression ratios ranging from 2:1 to 8:1, depending on data type and compressibility. By compressing data at the block level versus the packet level, HyperlP's compression scales more efficiently to much higher data rates as compared to other compression technologies and solutions.

A number of storage networking vendors now offer data replication across native TCP/IP as an alternative to more costly and complex Fibre Channel over IP storage solutions. HyperIP dramatically enhances performance of native TCP applications and shields them from circuit variations. HyperIP provides a production hardened IP transport that enables end users to leverage their IP infrastructure and expertise.

Supporting speeds from 6 Mbps to GigE, HyperIP outperforms other IP solutions by offering superior speed acceleration and bandwidth conservation over extended distances of hundreds to thousands of miles. Additional applications supported include digital image/video transfers, bulk data transfer between distributed servers, email data base replication, two-way satellite transmissions, and high performance/technical computing.

About NetEx
Formed in 1999 as a spin-off of Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek®), 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, Bell South, Qwest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Bank TSB, NDS Health, IRS, American, Lufthansa, Northwest, United Airlines, and Kellogg. For more information on NetEx, NetExIP or HyperIP, visit www.netex.com or call (888) 604-5573.

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