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21 June 2010

Endace Eliminates Point Measurement Solution Headaches with the World's First Packet Capture Probe Incorporating Virtual Machines for the Financial Services Market

Third-Party and Homegrown Latency Measurement and Network Monitoring Applications Now Benefit Fully From 100-Percent Packet-Capture Platform

Endace (LSE: EDA), world leaders in high-speed packet capture and analysis solutions, today introduced the world’s first virtual packet-capture probe. Designed specifically to appeal to organizations in the financial services market, the new software enables a variety of different applications to simultaneously benefit from Endace’s 100-percent network packet capture and nanosecond time-stamping capabilities.

By divorcing packet capture from applications, companies can, for the first time, compare the results from different applications, with the assurance that the base data is 100-percent accurate. For organizations that rely on multiple and different systems and applications to measure trade platform latency, feed latency and network performance, this is a significant advance from yesterday’s hardware-based point solutions that never quite agreed.

Available immediately, version 4.1 of Endace’s Probe Operating System for Monitoring software (OSM) leverages the power of the KVM hypervisor to enable third-party and homegrown applications to be installed. Endace’s central probe management functionality provides all the necessary tools to not only manage multiple distributed probes spread across the globe, but also to manage multiple applications.

Endace will be previewing the new technology at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Financial Services Technology Expo, which is being held June 22-24 in New York. Endace is exhibiting in booth 1436. Company executives are also addressing the STAC Innovation Roundup on June 21 at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Auditorium in New York.

Mike Riley, chief executive officer at Endace, said, “By separating hardware from software, organizations can fundamentally change the way that they measure and manage their networks. Organizations need the ability to run their own proprietary applications in a managed environment with the ability to work with the best application vendors in the market. No organizations should be beholden to a single application vendor. The days of the point solution are gone.”

About Endace

For organizations that rely on their data networks to do business, Endace provides high performance network security, traffic analysis, latency measurement and application acceleration solutions that capture, inspect and report on every single data packet.

Endace’s product portfolio, based on proprietary DAG (data acquisition and generation) technology, includes multi-function, multi-application probes and a comprehensive range of powerful management, measurement, alerting and analytics applications.

These products provide the broadest, most capable range of packet capture technology, for any interface, speed or packet type from 10 Mb/s up to 40 Gb/s. We enable our customers to be confident in their information security, regulatory compliance, service performance and traffic monitoring by giving them the *power to see all*.

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Endace also has offices in the U.K. and the United States. Quoted on London's AIM, the stock code is LSE: EDA.

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