MAHWAH, N.J. -- Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR - News) the leading provider of intelligent Application Switching (IAS), ensuring availability, performance and the security of networked applications across the enterprise, today announced that C-SPAN implemented Radware's Web Server Director (WSD) to ensure the optimized operation and availability of C-SPAN.org to deliver live-on-demand webcasts of Congressional proceedings.

Our users demand timely and reliable access to information, 24x7, and as a result, we require a solution that eliminates slow processing and faulty transactions," said Tim Rexroad, C-SPAN's Information Systems Manager. "Radware's WSD Application Switch meets these needs, guaranteeing the availability of our IP applications, web servers and application servers for complete service resilience."

C-SPAN, the political network of record, was created in 1979 by America's cable companies as a public service. C-SPAN now offers three television networks that provide live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives, and on C-SPAN2, the U.S. Senate. The C-SPAN networks also provide coverage of hearings, public policy conferences, political conventions and book and author events from around the country.

C-SPAN.org delivers public affairs programming 24 hours a day in a variety of formats including video and audio flows that demand a fault tolerant and redundant environment to ensure reliable data feeds over the web. Radware's WSD Application Switch was implemented to ensure permanent connectivity, delivering streaming content to Internet users. The Radware solution deployed in C-SPAN's network infrastructure is part of a series of network enhancements initiated by the Value Added Reseller RadDirect (www.rad-direct.com).

"C-SPAN delivers multiple types of streaming flows from their site, and only Radware was able to provide the superior performance, scalability and flexibility they needed," said Vik Desai, Chief Operating Officer, Radware. "Radware directs and optimizes the large volumes of dynamic content being accessed by global users on C-SPAN.org. Users expect uninterrupted e-tv viewing, and Radware help ensure that C-SPAN.org has the maximum reliability and performance for their applications and infrastructure."

WSD eliminates bottlenecks, failures and downtime from enterprise servers for the fault tolerant operation of all IP applications. By managing network traffic at Multi-Gigabit speeds, WSD attains the full utilization of C-SPAN servers, maximizing the performance of applications across sites for economical operation and seamless scaling of enterprise operations.

Radware Ltd.