Winster Selects Crescendo Networks' AppBeat DC to Accelerate Play

MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Crescendo Networks (http://www.crescendonetworks.com), the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing application delivery for web properties, announced today that one of the most popular online gaming sites, Winster (http://www.winster.com), has selected its AppBeat DC (http://www.crescendonetworks.com/products.aspx?appbeat-dc) application delivery controller to optimize their site.

"In the social gaming business, speed, predictability and responsiveness are key to a successful player experience," said Hanson Wong, VP of Engineering at Winster, Inc. "Since deploying Crescendo's AppBeat DC, we have seen 2-3x improvement in end-user response time and dramatically improved distribution of our traffic volumes."

Winster.com is a social gaming site (http://www.winster.com) where friends help friends solve puzzles to win real prizes. Players pick the prize they want to win and play engaging, fun games until their prize is won. Winster's games are specifically designed to foster a sense of community and promote positive interaction. Players cooperate to help each other win prizes, rather than compete. At Winster.com, players play with each other, never against each other.

"Online gaming is continuing to increase in popularity - and Winster's unique player collaboration requires their site to be fast and responsive," said Adoram Gaash, CEO for Crescendo Networks. "AppBeat DC can not only handle high traffic volume, but it serves requests with superior performance."

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 HyperScale's sophisticated N+i architecture, ADC infrastructures can now be built gradually, deploying what is needed today and scaling as demand and capacity requirements grow - up to a hundred 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 http://www.crescendonetworks.com.

About Winster

Winster, Inc. is a social gaming website (http://www.winster.com) that caters to people who play online games as a social outlet rather than a competitive one. The site offers innovative games designed to foster a sense of community and promote positive social interaction by encouraging players to cooperate and help each other win prizes. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

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