Telstra Selects NetEx's HyperIP to Support Storage Networking

and Disaster Recovery

New Product Is Fastest IP Application Accelerator for FTP

and High-Volume Data Transfer

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb 24, 2004—NetEx®—provider of the world's fastest data transport solutions with guaranteed delivery—announced today that Telstra—Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company—will use its HyperIP application accelerator to provide fully redundant failover support for Telstra's new data backbone network linking Melbourne and Sydney.

Telstra will use the new network for segregating bulk data traffic from interactive traffic to eliminate congestion and delays and improve user productivity. While immediate plans will focus on transmission of Oracle database updates with FTP, Telstra plans to use the network technology to support future storage networking and disaster recovery applications.

Telstra General Manager of IT Infrastructure & Operations, Graham Bull said, "NetEx has provided Telstra with reliable, stable products for fast data transport since 1985, so it was natural for Telstra to broaden and strengthen this relationship. Now HyperIP's redundancy capability, a critical requirement for all access points on our new network, will help us deploy future business continuity and disaster recovery applications."

Currently supporting speeds from 6 Mbps to 155 Mbps (OC-3), HyperIP outperforms other IP application accelerators by offering superior performance and bandwidth utilization over extended distances of hundreds to thousands of miles. HyperIP alleviates TCP/IP degradation associated with longer (200-plus miles) transmissions and eliminates TCP/IP throughput and latency performance issues. In addition, the product shields applications from intermittent network variations, such as jitter and bit errors and efficiently compresses traffic, which reduces operating costs associated with expensive bandwidth used with applications such as storage networking, over any distance.

NetEx CEO Craig Gust said Telstra is a perfect example of an enterprise with multiple data centers connected by IP WANs that demands full data protection. HyperIP will help Telstra expand its new bulk-data network to more data centers, and HyperIP's Automatic Hot-Standby (AHS) feature will provide constant availability for mission-critical applications requiring an easy-to-implement, application-transparent business continuity/disaster recovery capability."

A simple appliance that attaches easily to existing network infrastructures via standard 100Mbs or GigE interfaces, HyperIP can be easily configured via a browser interface and requires no changes to servers, applications or network devices.

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, NDC Health, IRS, American, Lufthansa, Northwest, United Airlines, and Kellogg. For more information about NetEx, NetEx/IP or HyperIP, visit www.netex.com or call (888) 604-5573.

About Telstra:
Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, with one of the best known brands in the country. Telstra provides more than 10.3 million Australian fixed lines and more than 6.5 million mobile services. Telstra's international business includes Hong Kong CSL Limited, one of Hong Kong's leading mobile operators; TelstraClear Limited, the second largest full service carrier in New Zealand and Reach Ltd (REACH), one of the leading wholesale providers of combined voice, data and internet connectivity services in the Asia-Pacific region.

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