University of Macerata Selects Crescendo Networks to Optimize and Accelerate Student Portal

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AppBeat DC Ensures Student Registration and e-Learning Portal Speed and Availability for 20,000 Students

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 26, 2011 –Crescendo Networks, the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing application delivery for web properties, announced today that theUniversity of Maceratahas selected itsAppBeat DCapplication delivery controller to improve online learning and registration portal performance and availability.

Founded in 1290, the University of Macerata is one of the oldest universities in Italy. Today it is organized into 7 faculties and boasts 20,000 students. Almost eight centuries of history have seen thousands of students go on to become executives, professional men and women, entrepreneurs, and educators.

“Due to the seasonal nature of student portals and online learning usage, the infrastructure behind these robust and complex apps needs to be rock solid in order to maintain site performance and availability, “said Adoram Gaash, CEO for Crescendo Networks. “AppBeat DC’s hardware architecture and proven performance delivers the predictability educational institutions and top web properties require. The University of Macerata’s students will be quite pleased when they experience the difference AppBeat DC brings to their portal.”

AppBeat DC 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. With AppBeat DC’s sophisticated N+i HyperScale  architecture, ADC infrastructures can now be built gradually, deploying what is needed today and scaling as demand and capacity requirements grow — up to a 100 Gbps.

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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Contact

Leah Stanton
Crescendo Networks
Tel (408) 730-5669

lstanton@crescendonetworks.com

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