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Array Networks Receives Best-in-Class SSL VPN Vendor Recognition From Stratecast Partners for Its Continuing Success As a Provider of Secure, Universal Access Solutions

Posted on: Tuesday, 20 December 2005, 09:00 CST

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent SSL VPN research study, Stratecast Partners (a Division of Frost & Sullivan) selected Array Networks as a 2005 Best-in-Class SSL VPN Vendor Award recipient for its comprehensive resource gateway SSL VPN solution. Array Networks has been able to attract enterprises with its value of tight integration, unmatched performance, administration efficiencies, security event correlation, consolidation of network and security devices, and reduced number of vendor products required due to its single-vendor solution.

This Best-In-Class SSL VPN Vendor Award was bestowed on a small subset of SSL VPN vendors that have successfully integrated comprehensive feature sets in each functional category of connectivity, security, and performance. While Array Networks is the only smaller, private company among the five companies best positioned to deliver a comprehensive resource gateway SSL VPN solution, Stratecast Partners outlines in the report that Array's market progress with customers and partners demonstrate that its purpose-built, high-octane platform is second to none in supporting all three functionality categories simultaneously.

"The company delivers on the concept of a Universal Virtual Private Network (VPN) in which access to any resource, from any location, with any endpoint platform is reliably supported with limited end-user and administrator involvement," says Stratecast Partners' research analyst Michael Suby. "This concept implies that enterprise security and resource use policies dictate access rights and not technology."

"To be selected as Best-in-Class SSL VPN Vendor among the distinguished companies that the research team at Stratecast Partners examined, is a great honor and immense validation for Array Networks and our position as an emerging leader in secure universal access solutions," said Jim Greenway, Vice President of Marketing. "We remain steadfast in our dedication to staying ahead of the evolving needs of our customers by providing the most innovative SSL VPN solutions available in the marketplace."

Array Networks SPX Series SSL VPN solution exercises significant control over the traffic between end users and resources. Such monitoring can help detect and block zero-hour attacks (non-signature based), anomalous behavior, and -- at the most discrete level -- positive logic application firewalls to allow only specific end-user interactions with resources. Array's SSL VPN approach also offers optimized end-to-end performance between end users and backend resources. Array Networks aims to reliably replicate local area network (LAN)-based end-user experiences, when connections do not originate on-site, across a broad range of applications and resources.

"Vendor focus, the direction of product development dollars, and market experience has a significant bearing on efficiency levels," notes Suby. "Array Networks has delivered product advances that have simultaneously delivered higher levels of functional sophistication and improved administrative and user friendliness."

About Array Networks

Array Networks is the technology leader in high-performance, secure universal access solutions. The company provides the world's fastest and most scalable SSL VPN products. Array Networks' systems perform eight times faster and scale 12 times higher than the nearest competitor. As a result, Array Networks delivers the lowest cost per user by dramatically reducing hardware, software and maintenance costs. Array is headquartered in Milpitas, California, with offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, and sells through direct and indirect channels across the globe. Customers include financial institutions, healthcare organizations, telecommunications companies, large enterprises, government agencies, universities and service providers. For more information, visit http://www.arraynetworks.net/ or call 1-866-MY-ARRAY and 408-240-8700.

About Stratecast Partners

Founded in 1998 as a division of Frost & Sullivan, Stratecast Partners provides forward-looking strategic analysis of the communications industry. Stratecast Partners analysis empowers clients to identify new market opportunities to pursue as well as key challenges that must be overcome to achieve success. Stratecast analysis is the product of a comprehensive research effort involving analysts with significant industry experience, and is designed for usage by executives. Stratecast directly supports firms in the communications/IT industry in making decisions regarding business strategy, technology strategy, product strategy, partnership strategy, competitive positioning, and company-level messaging.

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. For more information, visit http://www.frost.com/ .

Contact: Stacie Jones 210.247.2450 Stacie.jones@frost.com

Frost & Sullivan

CONTACT: Stacie Jones of Frost & Sullivan, +1-210-247-2450, orStacie.jones@frost.com

Web site: http://www.frost.com/http://www.arraynetworks.net/

Source: PRNewswire

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