Leading educational institution chooses AppBeat DC for optimal site performance and predictability

MENLO PARK, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Crescendo Networks, the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing application delivery for web properties, announced today that Rutgers University has selected its AppBeat DC application delivery controller to optimize the delivery of their Sakai E-learning web site. Sakai enables powerful teaching, learning and research collaboration beyond the classroom.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is the state's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education and one of the nation's foremost research universities, dedicated to conducting research that breaks new ground and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national and global communities. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement.

"With more than 52,000 students from all 50 states and 100 countries—it's critical that access to https://sakai.rutgers.edu/ is fast and predictable," said Adoram Ga'ash, CEO for Crescendo Networks. "Rutgers selected AppBeat DC because of the ability to accelerate user experience under load in addition to providing scalability to support their growing and sophisticated online demands."

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.

About Crescendo Networks

Crescendo Networks accelerates and optimizes delivery of business-critical Web applications through the market's best-performing application delivery controllers. A purpose-built hardware design with a massively parallel architecture enables Crescendo's ADCs to outperform competing products under peak load with all features turned on, allowing servers to serve user requests even under massive HTTP traffic or extreme load. 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.

SOURCE Crescendo Networks

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