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Net Optics Selected as Finalist in Info Security Products Guide Global 2010 Awards

Net Optics Director™ Nominated for "Best New Hardware Product” at This Year’s Ceremony

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 28, 2010 – Net Optics , Inc., the global leader in intelligent network monitoring access solutions, has again been honored by the Info Security Products Guide Global 2010 Awards, nominated as a finalist in the “Best New Hardware Product” category for its flagship product, Net Optics Director. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of technologies.

“I am pleased that Net Optics Director has once again been recognized for setting the industry-standard in intelligent monitoring access for global enterprises and service providers,” said Bob Shaw, president and CEO of Net Optics . “This nomination from Info Security Products Guide is further proof of our commitment to meeting customer demands and validation of our industry expertise.”

Net Optics Director is the industry's highest port-density monitoring access solution, and meets the requirement for 100 percent network visibility expressed by IT and security professionals. Director data monitoring switches consolidate multiple network monitoring access functions into a single, manageable appliance, reducing IT overhead and operational expenses. With Director, hundreds of crucial high-volume data links can be dynamically and intelligently filtered into a pool of monitoring tools, allowing each tool visibility of the traffic particular to its purpose.

Director aggregates traffic from multiple links to a single tool, enabling tools to see more traffic at once; regenerates the same traffic stream to multiple tools, enabling multiple engineers to work on the same traffic stream independently without conflict; filters traffic by protocol, IP address, or other criteria via unique TapFlow™ technology to drill down on problems and prevent tool overload; downshifts 10 Gigabit traffic so it can be viewed by 1 Gigabit tools; up shifts one 1 Gigabit links or traffic aggregated from many 1 Gigabit links so it can be viewed by 10 Gigabit tools. Utilizing browser-based or platform-based software with intuitive graphical user interfaces, tools are easily and instantly moved from one link or set of links to another, without physically moving decides. This helps maintain ongoing network security as well as business continuity. This year's 2010 Global Product Excellence Award winners will be announced at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, on March 18, 2010.