Enterasys Networks Demonstrates Strong Momentum with Growing Revenue and Product Leadership

ANDOVER, Mass., Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications company, today announced seven quarters of sequential revenue growth, along with consistent expansion across several key world-wide regions, and demonstrated traction with new products and partnerships announced over the past six months.  Enterasys' recent product and revenue momentum has been consistent despite the current economic downturn, setting it apart from other network infrastructure vendors.  

"The switched Ethernet business was under market pressure in Q2 CY 2011.  Revenues for this product category declined three percent year over year and grew by eight percent sequentially," said Alan Weckel, senior director at analyst firm Dell'Oro Group.  "Enterasys delivered a solid quarter with a sequential growth of 25 percent and year over year of 24 percent in Q2."

"While many technology companies are experiencing significant revenue ups and downs from quarter-to-quarter, we are thrilled to show consistent revenue growth and, given our recent product leadership and innovation, are on track for further success," said Chris Crowell, president and CEO of Enterasys Networks.  "Our recent product innovations and new enhancements have driven a number of enterprise customers to migrate from competitors to Enterasys solutions for significant technological value and lower cost, as they recognize the efficiencies we can provide in today's dynamic, virtualized data center. We have seen growth across all of our major geographies, with several multi-million dollar deals in the last quarter alone speaking to our focus on execution."

Market Leadership and New Customers

Enterasys has signed on 1,000 new global customers during the first half of the year, many moving from competitors to deploy Enterasys products.  Enterasys has experienced consistent growth across several key regions, including North America, Brazil, and EMEA, and success with a number of vertical industries, particularly K-12 and higher education customers.  Enterasys solutions provide education customers with a deep level of policy control, which allows them to manage the growing trend of "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) with a set of tools that help strike the appropriate balance between control and accessibility.  

"Enterasys solutions have helped us automatically prioritize and secure more than 20,000 networked devices used by over 15,000 students and employees.  Interoperating with other vendors and adhering to a standards-based, open architecture is very important to us as we build on our current network," said Joseph Harrington, director of network services at Boston College. "We have evaluated a number of competitive solutions and Enterasys offers seamless integration with all of our current vendor implementations, while also giving us a high-quality, reliable and secure network.  The edge provisioning and security capabilities of Enterasys solutions have given us increased visibility and control over unknown users, guests and systems. Enterasys has been a trusted partner for us for many years, and we know we can count on them for providing top notch support and solutions"

New Switching Portfolio; Management and Security Software Drive Revenue

Over the past two years, Enterasys has refreshed its entire portfolio of products, with major new solutions, such as the Enterasys S-Series and K-Series, and refreshed versions of the Enterasys A-, B-and C-Series switching solutions.  In addition to new hardware offerings, customers have identified Enterasys management and security software as key differentiators as they drive up the value of products.    

"Our experience in managing a dynamic, virtualized environment helped us understand and plan for the challenges associated with building our new data center," said Charles Desourdy, associate CIO for UMass Medical School. "Enterasys solutions provide us with an integrated and comprehensive view of our physical and virtual environment, with the ability to keep track of applications as they move from server to server.  This type of visibility greatly reduces the time we need to spend reconfiguring the network and coordinating changes across the IT team, freeing us to focus on higher priority projects such as new application roll-outs. Enterasys has consistently proven to be a vendor we can rely on to provide leading edge technology and support."

Resources:

• Enterasys K-Series product page
• Enterasys S-Series product page
• Enterasys Education solutions page
• Enterasys isaac product page

About Enterasys Networks and Siemens Enterprise Communications

Siemens Enterprise Communications is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based unified communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's OpenPath® commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores Group and Siemens AG, Siemens Enterprise Communications includes Cycos and Enterasys Networks. For more information about Siemens Enterprise Communications or Enterasys please visit www.siemens-enterprise.com or www.enterasys.com.

SOURCE Enterasys Networks

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