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ANTARA.net Joins Check Point's OPSEC VPN Capacity Planning Initiative

Campbell, California: July 18, 2001 - ANTARA.net, leading provider of powerful self-contained infrastructure stressing and security emulation systems for service providers and business enterprises today announced the company joined the Check PointT Software Technologies' (NASDAQ:CHKP) OPSECT (Open Platform for Security) VPN Capacity Planning Initiative. This partnering initiative provides customers with tools and services to help plan and assess the load capacity of their business-critical VPN deployments. These tools and services, including ANTARA.net's FlameThrower product family, will allow companies to easily and effectively scale their business infrastructures and are fully compatible with Check Point's industry-leading VPN-1T/FireWall-1, an integral part of its Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture.

"We are pleased to have ANTARA.net join the OPSEC VPN Capacity Planning Initiative," said Upesh Patel, manager of the OPSEC Alliance for Check Point Software Technologies. "The integration of FlameThrower with VPN-1/FireWall-1 will help our customers better plan and scale their VPN deployments."

ANTARA.net's FlameThrower is a hardware/software solution that gives IT professionals the power of predictability over network infrastructures. This enables them to understand the maximum capacity and performance for user transactional traffic. These unique stressing solutions isolate potential bottlenecks and evaluate user load, performance and capacity. FlameThrower also allows users to proactively manage networks and ensure quality up time by conducting a myriad of real-world Internet traffic emulations that determine where failures are likely to occur before they actually happen. As a scalable solution, FlameThrower will support stressing and validation for SSL and VPN provisioning. Finally, FlameThrower replaces the need for hundreds of PCs running load test software and it is easy for users to run accurate, repeatable tests at any time.

"We are proud to contribute our knowledge, experience, and products to Check Point's OPSEC VPN Capacity Planning Initiative," said Michael Jack, Senior Director of Product Marketing for ANTARA.net. "This partnership, with Check Point, allows us to reach and support an important sector of the market."

Check Point's OPSEC program provides a rigorous certification process ensuring the interoperability of industry-leading eBusiness capacity planning and load testing tools and services with Check Point's SVN architecture. Certified products will leverage the OPSEC framework to inform and alert administrators of ongoing load tests of their VPN gateway. These tools will enable administrators to emulate the projected load of their VPN infrastructure and pinpoint potential capacity bottlenecks ensuring continuous availability of business-critical eBusiness applications.

About Check Point's OPSEC
OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 270 partners, OPSEC guarantees customers the broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and deployment platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture. Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC alliance program information, including partner and product listings, the freely available OPSEC SDK (software development kit) and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com.

About ANTARA.net
ANTARA.net provides the first truly scaleable Web infrastructure stress-testing solution without the limitations of current software technologies. ANTARA.net technology enables network product manufacturers, IT professionals and service providers to validate their infrastructure capacity, performance, integrity, and right sizing by emulating real-world Internet traffic and denial of service attacks. This simple and cost effective means to deploy performance, functionality, and standards based conformance testing from a single platform using powerful ASIC and RISC based architecture can be purchased direct or through an authorized, value-added reseller. Founded in 1998 by Vinod Bhardwaj, a pioneer in networking and creator of the first Ethernet switch, ANTARA.net is headquartered in Campbell, California. For more information, please visit www.ANTARA.net.

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