Taiwan Futures Exchange Selected NetScaler To Optimize Trading Operations

NetScaler 9000 Series Withstands TAIFEX's Intense Scrutiny During Comprehensive Application Delivery Evaluation

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Friday, July 23, 2004; 12:00 AM

SAN JOSE, CA (July 21, 2004) - NetScaler, Inc., a pioneer in application delivery systems, today announced that Taiwan Futures Exchange ("TAIFEX") has selected and deployed NetScaler 9000 Series application delivery systems to enhance the performance and stability of its information system network. TAIFEX has deployed NetScaler 9400 Application Delivery Switches to ensure the efficient and secure flow of information through its Market Observation Post System (MOPS), a system that is central to the exchange's overall trading operations. MOPS handles the transmission of thousands of financial records for TAIFEX.

"NetScaler is an application delivery infrastructure solution that is able to ensure the fullest amount of security for application content," says Chen Zhao Nan, product manager for CGS International, a premier systems integrator in Greater China that helped TAIFEX evaluate and deploy the NetScaler 9000 Series systems. "NetScaler's powerful optimization features improve end user satisfaction while lowering total cost of operations. The 9000 Series was selected by TAIFEX after a stringent and rigorous review of dozens of point- and multi-functional networking solutions available on the market."

The secure, unencumbered flow of information is critical to the success of an open financial market. That is why TAIFEX's MOPS, which handles thousands of online financial transactions for the company on a daily basis, is extremely important. It is also the reason why TAIFEX's top priority was to ensure the efficient operation of the MOPS trading site by deploying next generation data center networking solutions capable of visibly accelerating and fully securing application and transaction data, as well as optimizing overall application delivery.

With the NetScaler 9000 Series installed, TAIFEX is able to provide continuous application availability and performance, even during peak trading hours. Of particular interest to TAIFEX was the NetScaler system's unparalleled application layer protection, which provides defense against a broad range of threats such as worm, virus, and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. Further, TAIFEX is able to distribute the availability of network resources, such as servers and storage, across the entire domain. And, at the application level, the NetScaler 9400 provides priority queuing to ensure that business critical applications are always available and highly responsive.

"We are thrilled that TAIFEX is using NetScaler's application delivery systems to increase the capacity of its servers, proxy servers and firewalls by up to a combined 200 percent," states Sheen Khoury, senior vice president of worldwide sales, NetScaler. "TAIFEX's deployment of our systems is yet another validation that the most demanding network environments in the world are benefitting from the improved application performance and security that our systems deliver."

TAIFEX was established on April 7, 1998, about a month before Taiwan's Futures Transaction Tax Law was promulgated. In July of that year, TAIFEX launched its first product, the Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization weighted Stock Index (TAIEX) futures contract, marking the start of formal trading.

About NetScaler
NetScaler provides networking systems that enable the fast and secure delivery of applications by integrating a unique suite of optimization, security and switching capabilities. NetScaler's 9000 Series application delivery systems provide improved application performance and hardened security for many of the world's largest enterprises, content providers and e-commerce vendors, while greatly reducing total cost of ownership.

NetScaler headquarters are in San Jose, California. For more information, visit http://www.netscaler.com.

Contact John Oh NetScaler, Inc. (408) 678-1722 joh@netscaler.com Zee Zaballos ZNA Communications (831) 425-1581, ext. 201 zee@zna.com