STAMPEDE TECHNOLOGIES POSITIONED IN MAGIC QUADRANT FOR WAN OPTIMIZATION CONTROLLERS

Evaluation Based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision

Dayton, Ohio, October 11, 2006 – Stampede® Technologies, Inc. (www.stampede.com), a leading provider of acceleration solutions for Web-enabled Enterprise Applications today announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2006. The Magic Quadrant positions vendors in a particular market segment based on their vision and ability to execute that vision. The Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2006 was published on October 4, 2006, by Joe Skorupa and Andy Rolfe.

“Stampede is proud to be recognized in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers,” said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies President and CEO. “Being recognized in this first-ever Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, we feel, highlights our hardware-software based symmetrical approach to acceleration. We believe that these so called ‘soft WOCs’ will play an even greater roll in enterprise acceleration for mobile and remote users, as well as Application Service Providers (ASP) and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, and are the only way to provide effective and affordable acceleration in these environments.”

Stampede’s family of acceleration solutions includes the Stampede Application Acceleration Series™ and the Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series™, a unique hardware-software approach to acceleration for those enterprise applications that require more than just web page browsing. Through this two-sided architecture, Stampede provides unparalleled performance through bidirectional compression, transaction optimization, cache differencing, and TurboStreaming™; a patent-pending technology that accelerates even highly encrypted or previously compressed data objects up to 4X. With Stampede’s client software technology, even SSL-based environments benefit from these acceleration techniques. In addition, the recently launched Acceleration On-Demand™ client technology enables this acceleration without the need to install software at the remote device.

About Stampede Technologies, Inc.
Stampede Technologies is a pioneering innovator of Internet acceleration systems and enterprise network performance solutions. The new Stampede Application Acceleration Series combines Stampede’s decade of experience in accelerating network-intrusive IPbased applications with Stampede’s unique Acceleration OnDemand optimization injection technology and the ground-breaking Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series to dramatically elevate our customers’ online productivity and enhance how they use the Internet to communicate and interact with their employees, partners and customers. When your enterprise applications are operating at top speed, maximum performance and total business value, it’s a Stampede! For more information on Stampede Technologies, visit http://www.stampede.com.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.