The Official Web Portal of Beijing Accelerates Online Applications With Crescendo Networks

Crescendo’s AppBeat™ DC Ensures Performance and Delivery of Beijing.gov.cn and Other Beijing Government Web Properties

Crescendo Networks, Ltd., the recognized performance leader in accelerating and optimizing Web applications, today announced that Beijing’s Official Portal Management Center is using AppBeat™ DC to ensure the performance and availability of Beijing.gov.cn and other government Web properties. Beijing.gov.cn was specifically designed to provide foreign governments, organizations and individuals who have an interest in the city’s development – and those foreign friends who currently study, work and travel in Beijing – with comprehensive, accurate and timely information for work, life, entertainment and the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The website generates more than 6 million visitors a day and supports multiple languages, including Chinese and English (www.ebeijing.gov.cn).

“Beijing.gov.cn serves a very large and diverse set of readers throughout the entire world. With the Olympics really shining a spotlight on Beijing, we knew the websites would be inundated with flash crowds and people wanting instant access to the latest world records and news about the games,” said Wang Zhe, CTO of Beijing’s Official Portal Management Center. “In order to ensure we could handle the traffic, and continue to grow the sites after the games were over, we needed a solution that could reduce server utilization and optimize bandwidth, while delivering faster response times for users and protection against flash crowds. Crescendo Networks’ AppBeat DC gave us all of these elements and performed flawlessly throughout the games, even when traffic peaked to more than 11 million visitors a day.”

Crescendo Networks’ AppBeat DC is the industry’s best performing application delivery solution, providing high availability, scalability, acceleration and optimization for Web applications. Unlike competing solutions, AppBeat DC leverages the industry’s only purpose-built platform, uniquely designed for maximum performance and feature concurrency. By offloading servers from process-intensive tasks and optimizing the delivery of the application to the users, AppBeat DC significantly improves overall application performance, security and availability while reducing datacenter costs.

“China spent a lot of time preparing for the games, building amazing facilities such as the Bird’s Nest. To complement those efforts on the ground, the government also built Web resources that were just as powerful and impressive. One of these resources was Beijing.gov.cn,” said Adoram Ga’ash, CEO of Crescendo Networks. “With these games experiencing more Internet viewers than ever before, and nearly 10-times more users to the Beijing.gov.cn site than expected, AppBeat DC was really put to the test and performed flawlessly during the games. Moving forward, we expect AppBeat DC will continue to be a pivotal piece of infrastructure for future growth of all the Beijing Government Web properties.”

About Crescendo Networks

Crescendo Networks is the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing the delivery of business-critical, Web-enabled applications. The company’s unique multi-tier application delivery architecture dramatically improves the operation of today’s demanding application infrastructure. The world’s largest corporations and fastest growing Web properties rely on Crescendo for the application performance and efficiency needed to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue. To learn more about Crescendo Networks’ application delivery solutions, visit www.crescendonetworks.com.

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