Tasman Unveils Router

SAN JOSE -- Tasman Networks, the world's leading supplier of high-performance, converged services routers, introduced today the industry's most efficient and economical router. The Tasman 3120's simple and scalable architecture beats competing products on both price and performance, offering two to four times the throughput (at wire speed), of competitors' products at the lowest price per port.

In a separate announcement issued today, Tasman released the results of third-party tests by The Tolly Group. The results indicate that the Tasman 3120 far surpassed routers from Cisco, providing maximum throughput and performance, particularly when transmitting high volumes of small packets, even with security and Quality of Service (QoS) features enabled. The Tasman 3120 performed as much as four times better for the more difficult small packet sizes -- significant because high-demand applications such as VoIP depend on rapid transmission of large volumes of small packets. For more information about the Tolly Group report, visit:

http://www.tasmannetworks.com/doc_perf_analysis.html

http://www.tasmannetworks.com/docs_pdfs/Tolly3120.pdf

As with all the company's products, the Tasman 3120 was built to converge a variety of network services while simplifying the user experience and eliminating unnecessary complexity that impedes the performance of many competitive products. Built from the ground up to deliver high performance, wire speed, and maximum flexibility in a modular architecture, the Tasman 3120 offers an efficient form factor and full VPN integration. Customers can configure the router using several different line cards, and they can easily assign ports based on their changing application requirements. Modules available for the Tasman 3120 include:

"With the introduction of the 3120 router, Tasman is once again setting a new industry performance standard and demonstrating that innovative companies and best-of-breed technology can successfully compete with, and even outdo, industry leaders," said Paul Smith, president and CEO of Tasman. "Our record results and a 68 percent increase in customer sales last year are concrete evidence that Tasman routers are capturing the attention of a significant portion of the market and are favored by a growing list of carriers, OEMs and enterprises."

In a separate release:

SAN JOSE -- Tasman Networks, the world's leading supplier of high-performance, converged services routers, today announced publication of a new series of performance tests by independent testing service The Tolly Group that concludes that the wire-speed throughput of the new Tasman 3120 converged services router (CSR) is two to four times that of comparable products by industry rival Cisco Systems.

The Tolly Group tests compared wire-speed performance of the Tasman 3120 CSR and the Cisco 2821 and 3825 while the routers simultaneously supported active Quality of Service (QoS), Access Control List (ACL) filters, and Network Address Translation (NAT) services. Throughput was analyzed for packet sizes ranging from 64 to 1400 bytes. While wire-speed performance for large packet sizes was similar, the Tasman 3120 CSR performed as much as four times better for the more challenging small packet sizes. This is noteworthy because high-demand applications such as VoIP depend on rapid, error-free transmission of large volumes of small packets. The Tolly Group report documents Tasman's overwhelming performance win in this category.

For tests over a point-to-point DS3 connection, the Tasman 3120 CSR delivered more than double the throughput of the Cisco 3825 and as much as four times the throughput of the Cisco 2821. The Tasman 3120 CSR delivered more than four times the throughput of Cisco 2821 when tested across a group of eight point-to-point T1 connections.

"Too often customers have to choose between performance and price, and as a result they are unable to run the network services they need in today's enterprise. We believe legacy operating systems are burdened with unnecessary complexity and are not solely focused on the needs of branch and access users," said Paul Smith, Tasman president and CEO. "The unfortunate result for budget-conscious users has been sluggish, expensive performance and the inability to deliver advanced services for the applications they need. "Our growing customer list and record sales validate this belief. We believe the new Tolly Group analysis, and our competitive pricing, provide stunning evidence that customers no longer have to face the trade-off between price and performance."

Tasman Networks Inc.