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Debra Brophy, Valencia Systems, 407-228-4417

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Valencia Systems Releases Commercial Release of Aruba Flow

Aruba Flow is architected to handle the scalable collection and reporting of Cisco IOS® NetFlow

Orlando, FL, March 3, 2005. — Valencia Systems Inc. today announced the release of their commercial version of the Aruba Suite's, Aruba Flow. Aruba Flow is designed to handle the rigorous challenges of collecting and reporting on the quality and cost of applications over the IP Network.

"This is a great addition to our performance management reporting suite", said Valencia Systems President, Steve Christle. "We can now provide our customers critical information on the performance of applications and services on IP Networks".

Aruba now collects and reports on flow records from routers and switches that support Cisco's NetFlow, enabling extensive IP traffic analysis without the use of probes.

Because almost all routers support NetFlow (even non-Cisco devices), the capital investment required to use Aruba's Flow feature is very low. It is straightforward to configure, requiring only a few configuration commands to have the router automatically forward application traffic flow statistics. Aruba's Flow reporting overlays the infrastructure already monitored by Aruba; it takes advantage of Aruba's flexible grouping capability, secure portioned access, and XML-based reporting architecture.

Aruba Flow adds the next level of detail to Aruba's extensive SNMP reporting. For example, Aruba can automatically detect that a WAN link has suddenly exceeded its baseline, and will notify a network manager. Using Aruba Flow, a network engineer can "drill down" and quickly find the specific application traffic that has caused the link utilization to spike.

At the highest level, Aruba shows the following information for any interface, device, or group of interfaces for the selected time period:

• Top N Talkers
• Top N Hosts and Listeners
• Top N Conversations (Host Pairs)
• Top N Network Protocols
• Top N Traffic Types
• Top N Applications

Network Protocols are based on server ports. Aruba comes with a standard list of Network Protocols that map IP ports to Network Protocol names. Users can also define IP ports (and layer 4 protocols) as Traffic Types, and multiple port numbers can be mapped to the same Traffic Type.

Business Application definitions are based on IP Address/Port pairs. Users can define an Application as one or more pairs. An application can be running on multiple machines and/or multiple ports.

About Valencia Systems

Founded in 1997, Orlando, Fla.-based Valencia Systems develops innovative, portable, scalable network management solutions.

Aruba, Valencia's flagship product, allows a holistic view of how a company's network is running now, understands how it has performed in the past and predicts future performance problems for proactive managed growth. Aruba currently is deployed in large and small financial service, insurance, retail, and other IT-centric organizations as well as by networking outsourcers. More information is available on the Web at www.valenciasystems.com, via e-mail, or by telephone at 407-228-4417.

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