Award Winning Crescendo Networks Enhances Performance and Application Delivery For Enterprise Networks, Leading Websites and Network Service Providers

Award Winning Crescendo Networks Enhances Performance and Application Delivery For Enterprise Networks, Leading Websites and Network Service Providers

- Its Selection as One of Red Herring's Top 100 Innovators and Winning N+I's Best of Interop Award for Performance Enhancement Help Provide Proof of Concept That Crescendo Networks Eliminates Application Delivery Bottlenecks in the Enterprise Network and Across the Internet

MONTEREY, Calif., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Crescendo Networks, Ltd., a leading developer of data center solutions that improve business-critical application delivery, today announced its selection as one of Red Herring's Top 100 Innovators. The company's Maestro platform was launched at the NetWorld+Interop show in May 2004 where Crescendo Networks won the Best of Interop Award for Performance Enhancement. Seven months later, the company is ending 2004 with marquis customer implementations including Marsys, Forbes.com and InTouch.net, a strong list of resellers and system integrators in North America, Europe and Asia, and awards from leading international technology and business press that provide proof of concept as the company gears up for growth in 2005.

Crescendo Networks' Maestro platform addresses both front-end and back-end application delivery issues for today's evolving data center requirements. The Maestro platform enables addressing barriers along the entire application delivery chain to enhance the performance of business-critical applications and websites while improving server computing resources, decreasing outbound bandwidth, reducing latency and lowering capital and operational costs. The company's success in the seven months since launching have validated Crescendo's technology and business model.

BEST OF INTEROP FOR PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT

"Crescendo Networks' Maestro platform is the most innovative solution in the performance enhancement category, and that's why we selected it as a Best of Interop winner," said Ron Anderson, lab director for Network Computing and head judge for the Best of Interop Awards (link to article: http://www.nwc.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1510boi ).

FORBES.COM ACHIEVES HIGHEST POSSIBLE SCALABILITY

"It's important that Forbes.com consistently scales to support our user base and deliver fast page-load-times," said Michael Smith, VP and General Manager of Operations, Forbes.com. "Crescendo's Maestro Platform is unique in its ability to process traffic at very high volumes and will therefore help us withstand the tidal waves of users when we release our popular top lists. We also expect to see improvements in latency times overall, helping us improve overall site performance and continue to meet page-load times that satisfy end users."

RED HERRING TOP 100 INNOVATOR

"Crescendo Networks' Maestro platform brings true innovation in the way it improves application delivery by reducing latency, server, bandwidth and operational resources while bettering end-user response times," said Joel Dreyfuss, Red Herring Editor-in-chief. "Because of their technological and business innovation, we selected Crescendo Networks as one of Red Herring's Top 100 Innovators."

Red Herring's editorial staff evaluated over 1200 submissions from 900 companies. The editors used a careful analysis of financial data as well as subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.

"Our awards and worldwide customer and partner implementations serve to validate the technological innovation and real business value of the Maestro platform, which eliminates deployment barriers associated with front-end and back-end application servers and networks and improves data center and website performance," said Crescendo Networks CEO Shykeh Gordon. "The success we have experienced in the seven months since launching our Maestro platform has proven our value and technology proposition, and has created a strong sales and channel pipeline for 2005."

About Crescendo Networks, Ltd.

Crescendo Networks, Ltd. delivers data center solutions for enabling business-critical applications. Leveraging the company's Maestro platform, IT professionals can break application deployment barriers commonly associated with front-end and back-end application servers and networks. As a result, network overhead is removed and latency is reduced from milliseconds to microseconds allowing IT professionals to deliver any type of application to their end-users, simultaneously handling end-user experiences and dramatically reducing the overall cost of delivering services. Crescendo's line of highly scalable network systems leverage the company's patent-pending FreeFlow architecture ensuring high performance, reliable access to all application resources as well as providing IT professionals with the tools needed to address today's network needs such as utility computing, business continuity and new network infrastructures. The company's solutions are available both direct and through a variety of channel partners globally. Crescendo's headquarters are in Israel and Silicon Valley.

About Red Herring

Red Herring covers technology innovation, venture financing, and the deals that make a difference. Its award-winning journalists go deeper, providing a comprehensive, critical analysis of what's new and why it matters. Red Herring covers the business trends with insight that counts, serving today's entrepreneurs and the technology of tomorrow. Head to http://www.redherring.com/ for articles, newsletters, and research reports that matter. Red Herring Conferences are open only to CEOs and select senior executives. To subscribe to the Red Herring Magazine call +1-866-311-9582 or email redherring@neodata.com

Contacts:
Yaron Danieli
Crescendo Networks
+972-54-763-4624
publicrelations@crescendonetworks.com


Source: Crescendo Networks, Ltd.

CONTACT: Yaron Danieli of Crescendo Networks, +972-54-763-4624,
publicrelations@crescendonetworks.com

Web site: http://www.redherring.com/


-------
Profile: intent