OASIS Member News: REDLINE NETWORKS AND DATAPOWER PARTNER TO ADDRESS ENTERPRISE XML WEB

["Dee Schur" <dee.schur@oasis-open.org>]

REDLINE NETWORKS AND DATAPOWER PARTNER TO ADDRESS ENTERPRISE XML WEB
SERVICES MARKET

Companies Team Up to Deliver Flexible, Secure Accelerated Solution for
Web-Enabled Data Centers

CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov. 6, 2003 - Redline Networks and DataPower Technology
have joined forces to market their products as a single solution that allows
Web-enabled enterprise data centers to provide faster, more secure and more
efficient Web services.

The partnership will create the first solution to address two of the major
trends coming together in today's data center:  the move toward Web-enabling
enterprise applications by converting them to HTTP (Hyper Text Transport
Protocol) for greater accessibility and flexibility, and the use of XML, the
core language of Web service and application integration architectures.

Partnership Includes Interoperability Testing, Joint Sales, Discounts
DataPower and Redline recently completed interoperability testing on their
respective products and have inked a co-marketing agreement which includes
joint promotional activities, bundle discounts and cross-selling programs.

The combined Redline-DataPower solution will target two types of
environments, often found within the same enterprise:  the New Data Center
environment, where the goal is to improve the speed, security and user
accessibility of internal Web-enabled business-critical applications; and
the external XML Web services environment, typically using the Simple Object
Access Protocol (SOAP), where the major concerns are ensuring security
against outsider attacks, providing access control and improving the
end-user experience.

Both DataPower's and Redline's products are purpose-built network devices
that work by offloading processor-intensive tasks from general-purpose
servers using advanced high-speed processing technologies.  Redline's E|X
and T|X appliances handle data compression, load balancing, SSL processing
and content processing of HTTP traffic; DataPower's XA35 and XS40 devices
perform message-level SOAP security, Web services access control, XML
routing and wire-speed XML transformations.

Complete Web Services Solution Must Address Both XML and HTTP
"Global 2000 companies are making strategic investments in Web services
inside the enterprise with the goal of consolidating previously disparate
business-critical functions," said Craig Stouffer, Redline's vice president
of marketing.  "XML is core for Web services, enterprise portals and
application integration.  DataPower is the original creator of the XML-Aware
Networking concept and has some of the world's top XML experts.  The
combination of Redline and DataPower uniquely enables enterprises to secure,
accelerate and deploy enterprise Web services and XML-based application
integration with reduced infrastructure."

Bill Tao, vice president of engineering at DataPower, said, "DataPower and
Redline share a common philosophy of offloading processor-intensive tasks to
let costly application and Web servers focus on business-level processing
for vastly improved performance and security.  Redline's product is a
perfect complement for ours because it performs a host of functions that are
key to large-scale XML applications - including load balancing and
compression - eliminating the need for point devices such as dedicated load
balancers.  Together our products form a reliable foundation for the
highest-capacity New Data Center and the most secure web services
environment."

"The Redline/DataPower partnership addresses a very real need," said John
Morency, founder of Momenta Research.  "IT managers need to efficiently and
effectively support existing Web applications, as well as efficiently and
effectively support a rapidly growing portfolio of XML-based applications.
There is no one single product that supports both today.  However, the clear
objective of this partnership is to deliver a single solution to what is
rapidly becoming a significant IT challenge."

About DataPower Technology
DataPower Technology provides enterprises with intelligent XML-aware network
infrastructure to ensure unparalleled performance, security and
manageability of next-generation applications and XML web services.
DataPower's patent-pending XML Generation Three (XG3(tm)) technology powers
the industry's first wire-speed XML-aware networking devices that provide
immediate return on technology investments while streamlining application
deployments.  Founded in 1999, DataPower is privately held and based in
Cambridge, Mass.  For more information about DataPower Technology, please
call 617-864-0455 or visit http://www.datapower.com
<http://www.datapower.com> .

About Redline Networks
Redline Networks designs and manufactures network appliances that maximize
the performance, flexibility and scalability of Web-enabled enterprise data
centers.  The company's family of E|X enterprise application processors,
deployed at corporate data centers, and T|X Web I/O processors, used by
Websites, enable users to control and customize any HTTP-based environment
while reducing infrastructure cost and complexity.  Redline is a
privately-held company based in Campbell, Calif.  For more information on
Redline and its products, visit http://www.RedlineNetworks.com
<http://www.RedlineNetworks.com> .