PHILADELPHIA, August 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Shunra VE Application Performance Analysis Solution Provides the Tools 
Needed to Quickly Identify Specific Transactions Which May Negatively Impact 
Performance on the Live Network.

Shunra Software, the world's leading provider of network emulation
solutions, today announced the release of Shunra VE Application Performance
Analysis Package, a software solution available through both the hardware and
software WAN emulation solutions offered by the company. This new package
delivers a highly integrated solution for performance testing applications in
a real-world network environment, identifying business transactions with
performance issues and analyzing those transactions to guide performance
improvement.

Shunra's VE Application Performance Analysis Package enables rapid
identification of specific business transactions which may experience
performance problems when running over the production network. During
performance testing, automated packet captures are recorded for the
transactions of interest. Automated analysis tools then provide insight into
the behavior of transactions based on the packet flows involved in the
transaction. This level of integration has proven to reduce root cause
discovery time from weeks to hours.

The components of this package are generally used in tandem, but may also
be used independently of each other depending on the application or service
being tested for the network. Keith Lyon, Technical Lead for Enterprise Test
Center, the technology center for a Fortune Global 500 consumer products
company says that, "The use of Shunra VE products has increased significantly
in our organization over the past two years as we find more value in
pre-deployment testing over the emulated WAN. We've found that the accuracy
of the Shunra emulation tools is at least 95% of our real world network. This
accuracy, and the speed at which we are able to get the data, is critical for
success and it is something we couldn't get from any other tool."

"The Shunra VE Application Performance and Analysis Package is a critical
advancement in Shunra's support of building network-aware applications
throughout all stages of the application development lifecycle," said Matt
Reid, Shunra VP of Worldwide Marketing. "Clients are seeing increased
efficiencies as they provide network performance engineers, QA analysts and
application developers within their IT group the ability to avoid costly
performance bottlenecks, extensive troubleshooting efforts and potential
rollout failures. This new package identifies and analyzes specific business
transactions that will cause end-user response time issues and provide actual
depictions of real-world network impact, prior to deployment."

"IT organizations, working with additional resource constraints in tandem
with increased performance demands, benefit when new tools integrate in a
seamless and non-disruptive way," said Olga Yashkova, Analyst, Test &
Measurement Practice with analyst firm Frost and Sullivan. "Not only does
Shunra's VE Application Performance Analysis Package transform the LAN to a
WAN for real world testing into the testing environment; it also uses tools
and scripts that currently exist in the lab, allowing IT professionals to
rapidly implement WAN emulation with minimal resource demand."

The VE Application Performance Analysis Package may be integrated with
Shunra's VE Suite Appliance solution or VE Desktop Professional. Additional
details on this product may be found at:
http://www.shunra.com/application_performance_analysis_package.aspx .

About Shunra Software

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, and the UK. Shunra is also supported through a global
network of channel partners. For more information on Shunra, please visit
www.shunra.com .

Web site: http://www.shunra.com