F-Secure Picks speedera for Global Load Balancing To Ensure Site availability during virus outbreaks

F-Secure has for ten years continuously provided content security services to roughly 50 million users worldwide, and it's Web site serves almost one million visitors every month. Its customers include many of the world's largest industrial corporations and best-known telecommunications companies; governments, post offices and defense forces; and some of the world's largest banks. F-Secure is widely acknowledged for stopping the SoBig.F virus. With the exponential growth and complexity in Internet security threats, the company required a reliable and massively scalable means to deliver software updates, particularly when millions of users try to update their security software when a new virus strikes.

“Reliability and speed of updates are the most important factor when it comes to security,” said Ari Hypponen, F-Secure's Chief Technology Officer. “We believe in working with leading partners like Speedera who can add value by providing a reliable, robust, on-demand globally distributed network and thus enable us to focus on our core business of bringing to the market the best anti-virus protection possible. Our customers demand reliable and immediate control over threats like the SoBig.F virus. Speedera shares our customer-centric vision of meeting the IT needs of our customers.”

Speedera's Traffic Balancer service provides global load balancing for distributed Web sites with two or more origin sites. It intelligently routes client requests to the fastest available origin site, bypassing overloaded or failed sites to overcome network congestion and site outages, thus maximizing performance and availability.

With a dedicated worldwide network of strategically located global traffic managers and network probes, Speedera's Traffic Balancer makes its routing decisions based on configurable policies and real-time network, server, and application health criteria such as network latency, link-to-link outages, packet loss, CPU utilitization, and others. In the case of F-Secure's system, Speedera's service also utilizes application server management data extracted from F-Secure's download system, to optimize load balancing decisions. In the event of an origin site failure, Traffic Balancer ensures that traffic “fails over” gracefully to the remaining origin sites without overloading them.

“F-Secure clearly understands how to work with Speedera to provide anti-virus security solutions second to none,” said Ajit Gupta, President and CEO of Speedera Networks. “When a virus hits, the cost of even one hour of downtime can be enormous – time and money that no business or individual can afford. The combination of F-Secure and Speedera's forces will bring one of the world's leading security solutions to an ever-growing audience of computer users everywhere.”

About F-Secure

F-Secure corporation protects individuals and businesses against computer viruses and other threats coming through the Internet or mobile networks. Our award-winning solutions include anti-virus, desktop firewall with intrusion prevention and network encryption. Our key strength is the speed of response to new threats. For businesses our solutions feature centralized management. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999. We have our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and offices in USA, France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Japan. F-Secure is supported by a global ecosystem of value added resellers and distributors in over 50 countries. F-Secure protection is also available through major Internet Service Providers, such as Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom.

About Speedera Networks

Speedera Networks, Inc. is a leading global provider of distributed application and content delivery services. The company's SpeedSuite family of services provides on-demand services that cost-effectively solve the performance, scalability, availability and security problems of delivering web sites. Speedera's edge delivery network is deployed in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, with connectivity to over 1000 carrier networks, controlled by a patented global traffic management system. Customers include leading organizations such as American Eagle Outfitters, DoubleClick, Fox Broadcasting, Macromedia, NASA, Sony Music Entertainment, the European Space Agency, and Univision. The company's channel partners include Softbank Broadmedia/Club iT, AboveNet, and Inflow. For more information about Speedera, please call +1 408-970-1528, visit www.speedera.com or email info@speedera.com . To request a white paper, please click on http://www.speedera.com/reqtechpaper.htm .

For more information: F-Secure Corporation Ari Hypponen, Chief Technology Officer PL 24 FIN-00181 Helsinki Tel. +358 9 2520 5511 Fax +358 9 2520 5018