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New WDS Accelerator Models and Features Take Access to Data to New Heights McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT), a leading provider of data access solutions, today announced the extension of its remote office consolidation (ROC) solution. The key enabler of the ROC solution, McDATA's WAN Data Services will include new models and features for greater scalability, optimized performance and improved management control. The SpectraNet WDS is based on the award-winning technology from Riverbed. "For enterprises to maintain a remote office consolidation solution that can control costs and protect data, they must ensure that the WAN optimization solution provider is making significant advancements around scalability, application acceleration, and ease of use," said Raj Das, vice president of product marketing, McDATA. "McDATA, through its partnership with Riverbed, far outpaces the competition in meeting these basic requirements." New to the solution set are two models -- the WDS Accelerator 6020, and the WDS Interceptor 9200. Both support greater scalability in data center deployments. Software upgrades provide even greater acceleration for NFS and CIFS-based applications, and provide Quality of Service (QoS) for all traffic. In addition, the WDS Central Management Console will now include improved global reporting, advanced data mining and central configuration. "With so many employees working away from the data center, it is imperative to have a seamless flow of data to the end user to sustain productivity," said Das. "The ROC solution delivers these efficiencies to enterprises, leveraging the WDS. The new additions to the WDS line further enterprises' ability to deliver better data access to its employees while reaping the benefits -- controlling IT costs and protecting data -- of centralized data management." Unprecedented Scalability The two new models -- the WDS Accelerator 6020 and the WDS Interceptor 9200 -- allow for greater scalability in the data center. The new WDS 6020 delivers up to nine times more connections than existing models and increased WAN data rates. It also has double the throughput of any other model on the market. The WDS Interceptor 9200 enables high-availability Accelerator clusters that deliver up to 28x more throughput than any other solution on the market, and supports up to 1,000,000 simultaneous TCP connections. The WDS Interceptor also simplifies data center deployments with the ability to add more Accelerators without disrupting existing systems. Other new models include the 1520, 3020, 3520 and 5520. Broadest Set of Optimized Applications In addition to the broadest set of industry-leading CIFS application performance optimizations, more applications are now accelerated with the release of WDS software version 3.0 with the addition of NFS optimization. File sharing and applications deployed in markets where UNIX is common, such as semiconductor design, aerospace and automotive manufacturing, software development and homegrown applications, can now be accelerated up to 54 times. Quality of Service (QoS) for all WAN traffic is also now available to ensure more efficient data movement. Policy-based QoS enables the WDS Accelerators to prioritize between real-time traffic that cannot be accelerated, such as VoIP and video, and traffic that can be accelerated. Unlike the competition, WDS Accelerators QoS is prioritized on both bandwidth and latency. Easy to Use The Central Management Console now includes capabilities for global reporting, advanced data mining and central configuration. Global reports include: total traffic, pass through traffic and total connections. Advanced data mining allows IT managers to monitor trending for up to one year, set custom time intervals and export global statistics. Lastly, IT managers can now centrally and remotely configure multiple WDS Accelerators. The new 3020 and 5520 models are now generally available from McDATA. McDATA will be shipping software version 3.0 in September on all generally available models, including 3520 and 6020. Software upgrades to versions 3.0 will be available in September for all existing models. When available, McDATA intends to also offer the WDS Interceptor 9200 and 1520, targeted for October 2006. About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) is the leading provider of storage networking solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and WAN environments. With nearly 25 years' experience developing SAN products, services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked data. 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