BT Openworld connects using Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager

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Tuesday, April 27, 2004; 12:00 AM

Cambridge, England, April 27, 2004 - Zeus Technology, the acknowledged leader in Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that BT Connect have selected to deploy the new Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager, the next generation in high-availability, application-centric traffic management.

BT Openworld, British Telecom's SOHO to SME shared hosting platform, is one of the UK's leading Internet service providers. Running on the BT Connect platform, the service hosts in excess of 100,000 users.

BT's purchase of two pairs of ZXTM's comes just days after the product's official launch and the systems will be installed on Solaris boxes hosted at BT Connect's data centre in Cardiff.

Neil Parsons, Systems Infrastructure Manager at BT Connect, said "We've used Zeus products extensively over the past eighteen months and have been impressed by their performance. Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager's capabilities, in particular its ability to terminate SSL enabling us to reduce development costs, were key reasons for our choice".

For more information about the Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager visit our website http://www.zeus.com/

About BT Openworld
BT Openworld, British Telecom's mass market Internet division is one of the UK's leading Internet service providers. It delivers broadband and narrowband services to more than 1.7 million business and consumer customers in the UK. BT Openworld also provides Broadband over satellite for business users, as well as additional value-added services, such as Wireless LAN, Teleworker and Web Design solutions. BT Openworld Connect Anytime is a narrowband service designed specifically for business customers.

About ZXTM
Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager is the next generation in high-availability, application-centric traffic management and load balancing, providing unparalleled control, intelligence, security and resilience for all your application traffic.

With its advanced TrafficScript™ control language, N+M scalability, deep content inspection, intelligent Web Services routing and end-to-end traffic security, Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager translates business logic into traffic management decisions - differentiating services, handling application failures to safeguard service availability, automating complex recovery tasks and providing richer information with finer-grained control.

About Zeus Technology
Zeus Technology is the world's leading Internet infrastructure software vendor. Zeus provides software that leads the industry in performance, scalability, reliability and security, combined with support and consultancy services that provide best-of-breed solutions for business-critical Internet deployments for ISPs, retailers, government agencies, financial services companies and media companies.

Zeus has created a highly scalable and robust line of software products including the multi-award winning Zeus Web Server, Zeus Load Balancer, Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager and Zeus Mass Hosting Application.

Zeus boasts an impressive strategic partner base which includes world-class companies such as HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. Zeus customers include eBay, E*TRADE, Interflora, Cable & Wireless, NEC BIGLOBE, THUS/Demon, Telewest, Verisign and Federal Railroads Administration.

For more information visit http://www.zeus.com/.

Zeus, Zeus Mass Hosting Application, Zeus Load Balancer, Zeus Web Server, Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager, TrafficScript, RuleBuilder and Universally Serving the Net are trademarks of Zeus Technology Ltd. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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