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[June 11, 2009]

XE Selects Crescendo Networks AppBeat DC

Jun 11, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Crescendo Networks, a provider of optimizing applications for Web properties, announced that XE has selected AppBeat DC to improve the scalability, availability and performance of its global currency exchange service.

The XE website has experienced traffic growth, and in March served over 450 million page views to more than 16 million unique users. Independent sources list XE as the world's most popular currency site.

"We needed to upgrade our infrastructure to handle rapid growth in traffic while maintaining the performance and availability our customers and users require. We discovered AppBeat DC, with its innovative, hardware-based design that combines load balancing with advanced application acceleration features while operating at top speeds," said Beric Farmer, President of XE. "Crescendo backed up its impressive technology with a first-rate, knowledgeable support team. By providing superior support along with high performance and rich functionality, Crescendo Networks delivers real value, giving us scalability for continued growth." Crescendo explained that to provide scalability and availability, XE employed a combination of basic round-robin traffic direction and complex clustering software. However, the combined solution required specialized expertise to configure and maintain and did not provide the capabilities, availability, or scalability that XE sought. XE started investigating load balancing appliances, but soon realized that an application delivery controller like AppBeat DC could provide sophisticated load balancing while offloading processing-intensive tasks from servers, to improve overall application performance and availability.

AppBeat DC manages traffic based upon outstanding transactions, server load and health, always sending data to the least loaded server while exposing a single URL to the web as a whole. In addition, XE can now offload SSL and TCP processing from servers to AppBeat DC, as well as compression for outbound traffic. With the boost in available capacity, the XE site can handle its growing traffic without performance degradation or problems, Crescendo noted.

"XE has built a dominant market position in foreign currency exchange services," said Adoram Ga'ash, CEO of Crescendo Networks. "AppBeat DC can help them maintain this dominance even with rapid growth, by delivering optimal performance and availability even during traffic peaks." ((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@closeupmedia.com))

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