NetScaler Racks Up Seven Product Award Nominations in 2001; New Request Switch 6000 Series Named Best-of-Show Finalist in the Networking Hardware Category at Comdex Fall.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

COMDEX Fall 2001

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001

NetScaler Inc., the global leader in developing high performance traffic management products, announced today that the company has wrapped up 2001 with a total of seven prestigious award nominations for its Internet traffic management products. Most recently, the company debuted the Request Switch(TM) 6000 Series at Comdex Fall in Las Vegas and was named a finalist in the "Best Networking Hardware" category for new products introduced at the show.

"We have dedicated several years in developing a best-of-class product that is designed for today's Internet infrastructure needs," said BV Jagadeesh, president and CEO of NetScaler. "NetScaler is honored to receive recognition for our superior traffic management products."

During 2001 NetScaler received a broad range of industry awards for the company's traffic management products including:

 -- Comdex, Las Vegas, November 2001, Finalist, Best Networking Hardware  -- VarVision Fall, October 2001, Nominee, Best Network Hardware  -- Gartner eSolution Summit, June 2001, Winner Best of eSolution Summit  -- Interop, Tokyo, June 2001, Winner, Best-of-Show Network Infrastructure for Enterprise  -- Networld+Interop, Las Vegas, May 2001 - Winner, Best-of-show Internet Infrastructure  -- PC Magazine, May 2001, Winner, Innovation in Infrastructure winner  -- Network Computing, April 2001, Finalist, Well-Connected Award 

NetScaler Leads New Generation of Internet Traffic Management

Products

NetScaler unveiled the Request Switch 6000 Series at Comdex Las Vegas on November 12 and was named finalist for the coveted Best-of-Show award in the Networking Hardware category. During Comdex Fall, the company issued an eTesting Labs benchmark report measuring their Request Switch 6500 (RS6500) against F5's BIG-IP 5000 Switch and Cisco's CSS 11800 traffic management products. NetScaler's RS6500 traffic manager clearly outperformed both products in terms of site performance and site protection. Each traffic management product was stressed with up to 24,000 Web requests per second. NetScaler achieved one million simultaneous active connections. The F5 BIG-IP 5000 Switch was forced to reboot more than once during the test and was unable to establish more than 280,000 connections. The Cisco CSS 11800 was also forced to reboot and was unable to establish any significant number of connections. Additionally, the NetScaler RS6500 delivered throughput of 10,887 requests per second, 55% higher than Cisco with 7,034 requests per second and 11% higher than F5 with 9,773 request per second.

"NetScaler products are purpose-built to solve the two big issues of web site performance scalability and web site protection. Our customers have selected NetScaler for these capabilities. In addition, we have delivered the best price-performance ratio of any solution in the industry," said Patrick J. Conte, general manager and executive vice president worldwide sales and marketing. "We are also confident this new series will be a clear winner against the competition in 2002."

About NetScaler

NetScaler, Inc. is the global leader in developing high performance Internet traffic management solutions. NetScaler's award winning product family applies the company's breakthrough, patent-pending Request Switching(TM) technology to deliver best in class web site throughput, scalability, site protection and network ROI. The company's advanced traffic management approach allows Internet Infrastructure managers to serve more users with faster responses and greater availability, using fewer infrastructure resources. NetScaler's worldwide headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California. NetScaler traffic management solutions are available direct and through a variety of channel partners globally. For more information please go to http://www.netscaler.com.

Note to Editors: NetScaler, Request Switch and Request Switching are trademarks of NetScaler, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.