PHILADELPHIA, December 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Windows-based network emulation solution includes more reporting 
tools, enhanced analysis capabilities and the capability to easily rollout 
networked applications across the enterprise

Shunra Software (www.shunra.com), the world's leading provider of network
emulation and application development testing solutions, today announced
version 5.0 of the Shunra Virtual Enterprise (VE) Desktop Professional
network emulation solution. A component of the award-winning Shunra VE Suite,
serving customers that perform network and application performance testing,
VE Desktop Professional 5.0 is a Windows-based network emulation solution. It
enables IT professionals to test software under a variety of current and
potential network conditions -- directly from the desktop. Shunra VE Desktop
Professional transforms a LAN-based testing environment to include the
real-world wide area network for accurate testing of applications.

Shunra VE Desktop Professional 5.0 
(http://www.shunra.com/content.aspx?pageId=131) includes new functionality,
greater software development testing capabilities and enhancements in
reporting and analysis. This new version also includes time-saving
capabilities including:

-- Automatic delivery of post-test analysis, decreasing the number of
       steps for users prior to reviewing test results
    -- Upgraded GUI and Shunra VE Analyzer integration, providing root cause
       diagnosis
    -- Ability to node lock the client, eliminating the need to communicate
       with the server
    -- Optimized performance, allowing unprecedented scalability within any
       network

"We used Shunra's solution for wide area network emulation during
development and quality testing of Adobe(R) Flash(R) Media(R) Server 3.5. VE
Desktop Professional provides an accurate, real-world network model with the
ability to emulate bandwidth, packet loss and latency, which is essential for
us to meet our rigorous Quality of Service goals," said Srinivas Manapragada,
senior engineering manager at Adobe. "Accommodating a dynamic network with
streaming services is complex, Shunra helped us fine tune the logic and the
behavior of the algorithm for conditions that we could not otherwise test."

Adobe used the solution to help test the Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5
software, a high capacity streaming media server with real-time communication
capabilities. Incorporating VE Desktop Professional at the initial
development stages, the team was able to validate software that manages
multiple bit rate delivery within Adobe's dynamic streaming technology found
inside Flash Media Server. This software handled code and performance issues
before entering Adobe's rigorous quality assurance process. The Adobe
engineering team was able to improve quality and reduce the number of issues
found.

"Testing networked software and services is essential to ensure Quality
of Experience (QoE) and performance of software that is required to operate
over wide area networks," said Matt Reid, VP of Worldwide Marketing, Shunra
Software. "Customers such as Adobe use Shunra VE Desktop to implement early
development lifecycle testing, making it easier to address design and
implementation problems before production rollout. This approach is proven to
save staff time, reduce overall product release spend and ultimately provide
a better experience for end-users."

Shunra VE Desktop Professional 5.0 makes it easy to pinpoint and resolve
problems including chatty applications, latency-sensitive transactions,
caching inefficiencies, bandwidth constraints and other network performance
conditions. Software development and quality assurance test scenarios can be
shared by users and managed from a central repository. The product is ideal
for development, testing, networking teams, and anyone who needs to quickly
check whether their code or software is ready for the network and remote
end-users.

Shunra VE Desktop Professional 5.0 seamlessly integrates into existing
work environments and is integrated with industry leading tools such as HP
Software's LoadRunner, Quality Test Professional, and VMware Infrastructure
3. Shunra is the only WAN emulation vendor chosen as an HP Certified solution
integrated with LoadRunner and is the only WAN emulation Platinum Partner,
chosen by HP Software's Marketplace Referral program.

A free trial 
(http://www.shunra.com/content.aspx?page=free_ve_desktop_standard_trial) of
the standard version of this software based solution is available on the
Shunra website.

VE Desktop Professional clients may be individually purchased online now
for US$849.00 per seat at http://www.shunra.com/shunra_store.

About Shunra Software

Shunra Software is the market leader in WAN emulation 
(http://www.shunra.com/network_emulation.aspx) 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 
(http://www.shunra.com/voip_testing.aspx); website testing 
(http://www.shunra.com/website_testing.aspx) and WAN optimization
(http://www.shunra.com/wan_optimization.aspx) 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.