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Michel Susai, NetScaler's Founder, Former Chairman and CEO, Launches NeoAccel to Advance SSL VPNs

 

San Jose, February 14, 2005 – NeoAccel, a pioneering innovator of next-generation Internet security solutions, announced its corporate launch with the leadership of Michel Susai, founder, former chairman and CEO of NetScaler.

Serial entrepreneur Susai's latest innovation, the revolutionary Intelligent Connection Acceleration Architecture™ (ICAA), provides a fundamental solution to the TCP-over-TCP meltdown and performance-sapping context switching problems that plague existing SSL VPNs. These core limitations have kept the SSL VPN offerings from Juniper Networks, F5 Networks and others from replacing IPSec VPNs or being widely deployed to address enterprise-scale WAN and wireless LAN requirements.

At NetScaler, NeoAccel CEO and chairman Michel Susai invented and pioneered the patented Request Switching(TM) technology that accelerates application delivery to handle the bulk of today's commercial Web traffic. Google, Yahoo!, Ticketmaster, Microsoft's Internet properties and many others rely on Susai's fundamental innovation to operate and protect the world's highest-traffic websites.

"Michel Susai is a relentless innovator of fundamental networking technologies that accelerate, optimize and secure the Internet," said Ajay Shah, general partner of Shah Capital Partners and the founder and former CEO of the $2-billion Technology Solutions unit of Solectron.

NeoAccel's unique approach promises to revolutionize how the Internet is used for secure access and private networks. An early release of NeoAccel's new SSL VPN-Plus™ network platform is currently in evaluation by a growing list of leading networking, security and IT solutions providers. NeoAccel's patent-pending ICAA innovation is used to implement its SSL VPN-Plus platform, enabling full-application, secure access with LAN-like performance for mobile users and wireless LANS -- without the complexities associated with IPSec VPNs.

"NeoAccel's vision is to secure everything by providing secure access from anywhere to anything, which requires a fundamental advancement in TCP networking that eliminates the barriers that have heretofore restricted SSL VPNs to small-scale deployments and constrained IPSec VPNs to high-bandwidth enterprise networks supported by large IT departments," said Michel Susai, chairman and CEO of NeoAccel. "Timing is everything, particularly when it comes to introducing disruptive technology into mature markets. Now, the time is right for a dramatic improvement in how secure access and private network solutions provide a consistently high-quality remote access user experience for WAN and wireless LAN environments."

NeoAccel will deliver SSL VPN-Plus as an OEM-friendly platform that enables suppliers of firewalls, VPNs and other edge-facing devices and IT solutions to deliver the functional benefits of conventional IPSec VPNs with the ease of use and zero-client administration of SSL VPNs.

"Complete remote access solutions encompass three functional components -- connectivity, security, and performance. Most SSL VPNs are designed to address only connectivity and security," states Michael Suby, senior research analyst at Stratecast Partners (a division of Frost and Sullivan). "Where NeoAccel is positioned is in directly addressing the performance inhibitors in today's SSL VPNs. Once overcome, we expect enterprise deployments of performance-enhanced SSL VPNs in WAN and wireless LAN environments to accelerate."

About NeoAccel

Founded with the vision to "Secure Everything™" through secure access from anywhere to anything, NeoAccel is delivering a breakthrough in simplified, full-access SSL VPN technology that enables more businesses to implement highly secure, scalable access, with the performance of IPSec VPNs. NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus overcomes the limitations that compel network managers and users to resort to cumbersome or insecure workarounds when faced with using conventional performance-limited Web security mechanisms. NeoAccel is headquartered in the Silicon Valley. Contact NeoAccel at www.neoaccel.com or info@neoaccel.com.

 

NeoAccel will introduce its new SSL VPN-Plus™ network platform at the RSA Conference. Visit NeoAccel at RSA Conference Exhibit #2001.

NOTE:NeoAccel, SSL VPN-Plus, Intelligent Connection Acceleration Architecture and Secure Everything are trademarks of NeoAccel. All other products are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Frank Guerrero
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