Happy Holidays! This is the time of year to reflect on the past 12 months and think about our course for the New Year.

2007 has been a very exciting year for Exinda Networks. We take pride in having helped numerous customers worldwide solve a wide range of application performance problems. We have expanded our international presence and enhanced our application acceleration product capabilities. More recently, we launched a new search engine with a unique capability to detect and control a broad range of recreational peer to peer traffic.

We anticipate that 2008 will be another great year with continued growth and ongoing product innovation. As we grow, Exinda remains fully committed to providing value and service to you, our customers.

Best wishes to you for good health, peace and prosperity in the New Year!

Sincerely,
Con Nikolouzakis,
CEO

CRN (US) Selects Exinda 4800 as Favorite WAN Optimization Appliance for Mid-Market
CRN magazine published an article entitled “20 Mid-Market Products We Love Right Now.” Exinda’s appliance was the only WAN optimization appliance featured.
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Aberdeen Group conducted a research study on WAN optimization & application acceleration in October, 2007.  Exinda was one of several sponsors of the study.

The report provides insight on how “best in class” companies approach WAN optimization.  For example, the study reveals that only 18 percent of the companies that added bandwidth over the past two years realized any application performance improvements from it.  Rather than adding bandwidth, the study recommends gaining full visibility into how bandwidth is being consumed to identify and eliminate bottlenecks using WAN optimization technology. 
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Exinda hosted a webinar in November entitled “Best Practices for Optimizing WAN Performance.”  Industry analyst Jim Metzler and Exinda’s Jim Christie discussed a framework for optimizing WAN performance as well as best practices. 

A new Exinda whitepaper that mirrors the content of the webinar is also available.

Exinda's new Layer 7 search engine, which is now available, utilizes heuristics to detect and control a broad range of recreational Internet traffic including encrypted peer to peer (P2P) traffic such as BitTorrent.

P2P traffic has become increasingly more difficult to detect on corporate networks as newer applications are designed for port hopping and probing.  Exinda’s new search engine utilizes heuristics for highly accurate detection of P2P traffic patterns.  Once detected, Exinda can apply the proper network policies to block or slow this type of traffic.

Heuristics is not an exact science.  Therefore, it may take up to 24 hours for Exinda appliances to detect P2P traffic patterns.  However, the search engine is highly accurate in classifying P2P traffic.  It can classify non-encrypted P2P traffic with 100 percent accuracy and encrypted P2P traffic with 98 percent accuracy.

In addition to its improved detection and classification capabilities, the new search engine offers:

• Up to 100X faster classification
• 100-1,000 times more Layer 7 connections per second
• Requires less central processing units (CPUs) which can be used instead for application acceleration
• Improved ability to detect new applications (e.g., a new version of Skype)
• The classification overhead is reduced resulting in 20x less latency through the appliance.