Expand Networks Named Best of Interop Las Vegas

WAN Optimization Leader’s Virtualization Accelerator Wins Interop Las Vegas Performance Optimization Category

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Expand Networks, www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, has beaten industry rivals to win the prestigious title of Best of Interop Las Vegas, with its Virtual Accelerator.

“We congratulate VMware for their contributions and for demonstrating that Interop is the best place to see the latest and most exciting advancements in the business technology industry.”

The winners were announced during a ceremony on 19^th May held at Interop, Las Vegas, where the panel of judges, made up of award-winning editors and analysts from InformationWeek, placed Expand’s Virtual Accelerator ahead of tough competition from Citrix Systems, Inc., and Spirent Communications to win the Performance Optimization category.

The judges selected the products they believe will have the greatest potential impact and advance business technology efficiencies. As a truly virtualized offering, the Virtual Accelerator is able to utilize the existing hardware, shared storage, management, back up policies and configuration tools, as well as ensuring existing Service Level Agreements and support services are maintained, thus simplifying datacenter management and reducing TCO.

Adam Davison, Corporate Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Expand comments:

“We are delighted to be awarded this tremendous accolade. Our virtualization technology coupled with our innovative economics makes this product particularly relevant to all sizes of enterprises today, as WAN Optimization becomes a critical enabler in today’s consolidation drive.

“The innovation we have demonstrated in product development this year has helped our customers improve remote user productivity, even in the most complicated environments and delighted to achieve this recognition.”

“This year was an exciting year for the Best of Interop Awards because there were so many strong contenders in every category,” said Art Wittmann, Managing Director of InformationWeek Analytics. “VMware and each of the category winners have truly demonstrated the essence of innovation and deserve this recognition for their contributions to the industry.”

“The submissions we received for the Best of Interop Awards were a true reflection of the tremendous amount of energy and innovation in the market today,” said Lenny Heymann, Interop General Manager. “We congratulate VMware for their contributions and for demonstrating that Interop is the best place to see the latest and most exciting advancements in the business technology industry.”

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Expand Networks is demonstrating the award-winning Virtual Accelerator, and its revolutionary new product, the Mobile Accelerator Client, at Booth #2325 at Interop 2009, Las Vegas.

About Expand Networks

Expand Networks is the pioneer and leader in the WAN Optimisation market. Expand helps organizations simplify their IT infrastructure while delivering remote offices fast, reliable and secure access to networked applications. This results in improved user productivity and cost-effective IT management. Expand offers a multi-service integrated platform that ensures superior performance for any application over any network. From its headquarters in Roseland, NJ and its global locations, Expand Networks (www.expand.com) serves more than 3,500 enterprise and public sector customers in over 100 countries including: American Express, Bacardi USA, BMW, Continental Airlines, Carr America, Colgate, Elizabeth Arden, Reed Exhibitions, Target and United States Department of Defense with over 40,000 units deployed and over 2,000 MS Terminal Services and Citrix customers. Expand is the largest supplier of WAN Optimisation products to US Government and Military agencies (greater than 10,000 units) and also has the most units deployed at a single corporate location, (4,500).

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