Radware Wins NGN Magazine's 2010 NGN Leadership Award for the Second Year in a Row

MAHWAH, N.J., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR), a leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) NGN Magazine, the industry's most informative resource dedicated to the next generation of communications technologies, has named SIP Director®, Radware's intelligent SIP-aware Application Delivery Controller (ADC) a winner of the 2010 NGN Leadership Award for Network Technology for the second year in a row.

The second annual NGN Leadership Awards recognized the growth and evolution, and distinction between the applications and services designed for next-generation networks and the enabling technologies that make them possible.

"At Radware, we aim to deliver technology solutions that provide maximum network performance and efficiency, and it's truly an honor to receive this leadership award from TMC and NGN Magazine," said David Aviv, Vice-President Advances Services, Radware. "This recognition is symbolic of our ongoing efforts to develop next-generation telecom solutions that address today's changing business requirements and provides service providers and carriers with service continuity and optimization of networks."  

Radware's SIP Director provides the reliability, scalability and interoperability needed to ensure large scale, carrier-grade deployments of SIP-based services. With SIP Director, operators, vendors and system integrators can provide the high availability, performance and security of SIP-based applications such as IVR and VoiceMail, services including conference calls and messaging, and SIP-aware network infrastructure entities such as SBCs and SoftSwitches. SIP Director's optimization and offloading capabilities, including SIP load balancing, TLS conversion, Call Admission Control and Header Manipulation, help customers to reduce their operational and capital expenditures. By virtualizing the access, control, and service planes and by offering a unique "pay-as-you-grow" software license based platform, SIP Director enables operators to seamlessly scale capacity and add SIP-aware services on demand for offered SIP services, delivering a cost-effective solution with best investment protection.

"NGN Magazine is proud to grant Radware a 2010 NGN Leadership Award for SIP Director. Radware has proven its dedication to delivering the network components that have helped service providers and network operators deliver services, applications and content to their growing constituencies," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "We're happy to recognize and honor Radware for its leadership in the next generation of communications technologies and we look forward to more network technology leadership in the future."

A complete list of NGN Leadership Award winners will be published in the July/August issue of NGN Magazine, (www.ngnmag.com).

For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Radware

Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR), a global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for nearly 10,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute®, Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of application delivery and network security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart." For more information, please visit www.radware.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the Application Switching or Network Security industry, changes in demand for Application Switching or Network Security products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware's Form 20-F.

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