Leading Higher Education Institutions Choose Crescendo Networks to Deliver Critical Online Services

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Crescendo’s AppBeat DC Ensures Speed and Predictability for e-Learning Applications, Student Portals, Registration and Enrollment

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – April 14, 2011 –Crescendo Networks, the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing application delivery for web properties, announced today thatAppBeat DCis the solution of choice for global universities, colleges and institutes with fast-growing student and staff populations and e-learning portals.

The University of Macerata,Mexico’s Ministry of Public Educationand numerous institutions in the United States includingGreenville College,Rutgers University, andPeirce Collegeall chose AppBeat DC to ensure their students and faculty get predictable and superior site response and performance during registration and enrollment periods as well as when accessing student portals and e-learning applications. Another major goal was to ensure application predictability, avoiding downtime due to massive traffic spikes or flash crowd events.

Educational networks using Crescendo Networks AppBeat DC benefit from: 

“We are continuing to see education as a leading vertical for application delivery solutions. Success is offering performance and predictability when it matters most to your business. The field of education must be able and ready to ensure smooth enrollment, registration and e-learning to encourage student growth and retention,” said Adoram Gaash, CEO for Crescendo Networks.  “The fact that more global higher education organizations are choosing AppBeat DC attests to its innovative features and efficient architecture as well as their commitment to their students and staff with progressive technology.”

AppBeat DC is a next generation load balancer or application delivery controller that delivers optimal application performance while increasing server efficiency. Deployed on a purpose-built platform using dedicated hardware engines with parallel processors, AppBeat DC offloads processing-intensive tasks from servers and combines multiple acceleration features in one highly scalable appliance. Its unique distributed architecture outperforms other solutions that experience performance degradation and resource contention when multiple features are enabled.

About Crescendo Networks

Crescendo Networks offers the industry's only "future-proof" application delivery solution to support business growth in today's volatile online world. Our unified application delivery solution offers innovative HyperScale technology, cloud intelligence, and massively scalable processing for performance that knows no boundaries. The company’s products are used by many of the world’s most sophisticated and fastest-growing Web properties to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue. For more^{information, visit www.crescendonetworks.com.}

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Leah Stanton
Crescendo Networks
Tel (408) 730-5669

lstanton@crescendonetworks.com

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