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To: Moonray who wrote (30837)	5/12/1999 12:40:00 PM
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IPivot Wins Best of Show Award At NetWorld + Interop 99 Las Vegas Seems to me someone had this on they're WISH LIST <G> May 12, 1999 11:57 AM LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1999-- Commerce Accelerator 1000 Receives Top Honors in the Network Security and Performance Category for Delivering up to 50-Times Performance Boost to E-Commerce Sites IPivot Inc., the company that "Makes E-Commerce Work," received a top award last night at NetWorld + Interop 99 for its Commerce Accelerator 1000, a new product that eliminates server performance bottlenecks during secure SSL transactions, improving the overall performance of e-commerce sites by up to 50 times. The NetWorld+Interop judges and editors of Data Communications and Internet Week selected IPivot for the Best of Show Award in the category of Network Security and Performance. "IPivot is honored to be recognized as an innovator and leader by the experts who chronicle the most significant developments in the e-commerce industry," said Brett Helm, IPivot president and chief executive officer. "We see this award as an endorsement of our vision to accelerate the mass adoption of e-commerce by improving performance and reliability for secure transactions. Everyone who assisted in the development of the Commerce Accelerator 1000, from our engineers and marketing people to our investors and industry partners, share the credit for what we have achieved." The Commerce Accelerator 1000 The IPivot Commerce Accelerator 1000 is the first of a new breed of Internet Commerce Appliances (ICA), that connect in-line between routers and servers to address the complex performance issues associated with processing secure transactions. By offloading encryption and decryption processing from the server to the Commerce Accelerator, secure transactions can be handled at wire speeds. Multiple Commerce Accelerators can be cascaded together to handle as many as 1,500 secure transactions per second. The Commerce Accelerator from IPivot complements the company's previously announced Internet Traffic Appliances (ITA). Those include the Intelligent Broker family developed and marketed by IPivot and available from Nortel Networks as part of its Accelar Server Switch line. "Customer demand for our Accelar Internet Appliances, developed with IPivot, has exceeded our expectations," said Bert Armijo, director of product marketing at Nortel Networks. "We are enthusiastic about expanding our relationship with IPivot in this hot new category in order to offer our customers leading-edge, best-of-breed technologies to keep their e-commerce sites performing at an optimum level." Availability and Pricing The Commerce Accelerator 1000 is priced at $9,995 and is scheduled for shipment in June 1999. About NetWorld + Interop NetWorld + Interop provides networking, Internet and telecommunications professional buyers with a uniquely comprehensive forum for education and hands-on products and services in order to make critical purchase decisions. NetWorld + Interop affords buyers from enterprises, carrier/service providers and resellers/integrators the opportunity to experience live technology demonstrations first-hand. It's this focus on advanced, multi-vendor, multi-protocol, multi-service interoperability technology and solutions that makes NetWorld + Interop the definitive networking event. For more information about NetWorld + Interop 99 Las Vegas, visit www.interop.com. About IPivot IPivot Inc. "Makes E-Commerce Work" by delivering solutions that solve Internet performance and reliability problems thus enabling the mass adoption of Electronic Commerce. IPivot markets its innovative family of Internet Commerce Appliances and Internet Traffic Appliances through a network of premier resellers, network integrators and OEMs, including Nortel Networks, NT . IPivot products support Internet sites using servers from companies such as Hewlett Packard HWP , Apple AAPL , Compaq CPQ , IBM IBM , Sun Microsystems SUNW , and others. IPivot's products are also used with a variety of switches and routers, including those manufactured by Cisco Systems CSCO , Lucent LU and 3Com COMS . IPivot is a charter member of QoS Forum, an international consortium of organizations devoted to end-to-end Quality of Service solutions. Other charter members include Microsoft Corp. MSFT , IBM IBM , Extreme Networks EXTR , Intel Corp. INTC , and Novell NOVL . The company is located in Poway, Calif., near San Diego. For more information, call toll-free 877/347-4868 or visit ipivot.com.