Stampede Technologies Announces OEM Partnership with iDirect Technologies

iDirect will offer Stampede's Application Acceleration Series to Satellite Service Providers

New York, New York, January 15, 2008 – Stampede® Technologies, Inc. (www.stampede.com), a leading provider of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration solutions for Enterprise Applications today announced that iDirect Technologies has become an OEM partner for Stampede’s family of acceleration solutions. iDirect will offer the Stampede Application Acceleration Series™ as an integrated solution to improve application response times and reduce bandwidth utilization across global satellite networks.

The Stampede Application Acceleration Series is a two-sided hardware/software acceleration solution (commonly referred to as a Software WAN Optimization Controller, or Soft WOC) for maximizing performance and bandwidth utilization of enterprise applications. Stampede’s Soft WOC approach employs performance-enhancing technologies such as TurboStreaming™ (for accelerating compressed or encrypted objects), SSL Client-side Termination (for accelerating SSL transactions), Intelligent Cache Differencing, Image Transformation, CIFS Acceleration, Connection Management and Load Balancing, providing significant performance enhancement. These optimization technologies support traditional HTTP/HTTPS, legacy TCP and the emerging Web 2.0/AJAX application environments. The Stampede solution accelerates a diverse population of end user devices, including those using Windows Mobile®. In addition, Stampede’s Acceleration On Demand™ client technology is the first client technology to be automatically injected into the responses sent to the end user, without the need to install software at the client.

“Our Stampede Application Acceleration Series has proven to be of significant value when deployed in satellite environments, and our customers, many of whom are leaders in the retail industry, have been able to improve performance and actually do more with existing bandwidth” said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies’ President and CEO. “We look forward to working with iDirect as they open another channel for our solutions.”

“Satellite networks are increasingly used to support critical business applications that place heavy bandwidth demands on IP networks,” says Ajit Vanniamparampil, iDirect’s Product Manager. “With space segment becoming scare and expensive, our customers need to maximize their bandwidth efficiencies and improve application response times. Stampede Technologies’ innovative solution directly addresses these challenges. We are excited to be able to provide this competitive edge to our customers enabling them to optimize expensive satellite capacity.”

About Stampede Technologies, Inc.
StampedeTechnologies is a pioneering innovator of Internet acceleration systemsand enterprise network performance solutions. The new StampedeApplication Acceleration Series™ combines Stampede’s decade ofexperience in accelerating network-intrusive IP-based applications withStampede’s unique Acceleration On Demand™ optimization injectiontechnology and the ground-breaking Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Seriesto dramatically elevate our customers’ online productivity and enhancehow they use the Internet to communicate and interact with theiremployees, partners and customers. When your enterprise applicationsare operating at top speed, maximum performance and total businessvalue, it’s a Stampede! For more information on Stampede Technologies,visit http://www.stampede.com.