PHILADELPHIA, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Shunra VE Desktop Improves End-User Experience by Assessing Network
Impact during Each Stage of the Application Development Lifecycle

Shunra today announced the HP certification of Shunra VE Desktop for HP
Software, a Windows-based solution that tests the impact of applications on
networks in all developmental stages by emulating a wide area network (WAN)
and detailing network conditions seamlessly during load testing. The
interoperability with HP LoadRunner enables a powerful, integrated solution
offering customers highly-accurate, network performance testing.

"Shunra VE Desktop for HP Software has transformed the traditional
'develop on a LAN -- deploy on a WAN' methodology by providing actual
depictions of real-world network impact in all phases of the application
development lifecycle, prior to deployment," said Thomas Charlton, CEO,
Shunra. "End-user experience is a critical business driver for our customers,
and Shunra significantly increases deployment success rates by analyzing WAN
characteristics and impact on geographically remote end-users. Companies are
now gravitating toward the requirement of network-aware applications at all
developmental stages in order to avoid costly performance bottlenecks, time
troubleshooting and rollout failures."

"Application performance testing labs are looking to lower costs, while
delivering load test results in a simple, repeatable manner," said Subbu
Iyer, Senior Director of Products, Performance Center and LoadRunner,
Software, HP. "The combination of HP LoadRunner with Shunra VE Desktop for HP
Software allows customers to achieve this and test network-aware applications
with a WAN emulation capability."

Shunra also strengthened its collaboration with HP by joining the HP
Marketplace Referral Program, which will enhance Shunra's collaboration in
the field and accelerate the adoption of joint solutions.

"Network performance testing software interoperability is valuable within
the application development lifecycle," said Joe Skorupa, Research VP,
Enterprise Communications Applications and Infrastructure, Gartner. "WAN
emulation coupled with load testing can provide application developers and
network engineers the ability to develop more network-aware applications."

Currently, Shunra Software is the only company to provide both hardware
and software WAN emulation solutions with market-leading best practices for
application development and network performance testing. With heightened
demand for network performance due to increased network traffic, Shunra's HP
certification marks an important milestone in its commitment to responding to
the productivity requirements of global IT professionals.

About Shunra VE Desktop Professional

Shunra VE Desktop Professional is ideal for development, testing and
networking teams, and anyone who needs to quickly check whether their code or
application is 'network-aware' and can be deployed successfully. This
complete "picture" of user response times, load, and WAN impact provides the
information necessary to know if application rollouts, datacenter relocation
projects, virtualization initiatives, server consolidation projects will be
successful.

About Shunra

Shunra Software is the market leader in WAN emulation solutions for
application performance testing throughout the entire application development
lifecycle. Shunra's award-winning solutions enable development, quality
assurance, pre-deployment and operations teams to create an exact replica of
their production environment or design what-if network scenarios; allowing
them to predict exactly how applications or infrastructure changes will
perform in any networked environment -- before rollout. Shunra's solutions
and services are typically deployed in projects including data center
consolidation; application performance readiness testing; VoIP testing;
website testing and WAN optimization technology testing.

Shunra's solutions and services are used by thousands of customers
worldwide. Clients include 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx,
General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola,
Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra has offices in New York City,
Philadelphia, Israel, the UK and Singapore. Shunra is also supported through
a global network of channel partners. For more information on Shunra, please
visit www.shunra.com.

Shunra is a trademark of Shunra Software Ltd. All other trademarks and 
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owners.

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