-- Energy - Glencore Singapore
-- Government - Guangdong Museum
-- Retail - Quiksilver
-- Transportation - KumHo-Asiana Ltd.
New customers in the CALA region included:
-- Finance - MAFRE
-- Government - Ministério da Defesa
-- Government - Prodaub - Processamento de Dados de Uberlândia
-- Transportation - Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora
-- Transportation - TRENSURB
New customers in the EMEA region included:
-- Entertainment - TV CABO
-- Finance - Rahn & Bodmer
-- Government - Landeskriminalamt Sachsen-Anhalt
-- Retail - WALA Heilmittel GmbH
-- Transportation - Grupo Talgo
New customers in North America included:
-- Education - Moore County Schools
-- Education - Tennessee Technological University
-- Technology - Intuit
-- Transportation - Allegiant Air
Highlights for the first half of 2008 include:
-- Fixed Layer 2 switching revenue, led by the Enterasys®
SecureStack™ A-Series and Enterasys® SecureStack™ B-Series edge
switches, was up more than 20 percent in 1H08 compared to the year ago
period.
-- Fixed Layer 3 switching revenues for the Enterasys® SecureStack™
C3 Gigabit Ethernet stackable switch increased nearly 90 percent, while
power Ethernet (PoE) port shipments more than doubled from 1H07.
-- Port shipments for the new Enterasys® I-Series industrial Ethernet
offering were up 45 percent sequentially in Q2 2008, and more than six-fold
compared to the year ago quarter.
-- The new Enterasys® G-Series policy-based edge switch continued to
gain traction, with revenues and port shipments growing more than 300
percent sequentially in Q2 2008.
-- Diamond and Platinum Distributed Forwarding Engines (DFEs) for the
Enterasys Matrix® N-Series flow-based switches continued to show strong
growth, with revenues increasing 12 percent and ports up 16 percent
sequentially in Q2 2008.
-- Enterasys' Enterasys Matrix® X-Series secure data center/core
routers also had strong growth in Q2 2008, with revenues up more than 40%
sequentially and 60 percent compared to the year ago quarter, while port
shipments grew 44 percent sequentially and 26 percent on a year-over-year
basis.
-- 10 Gigabit Ethernet port shipments for the Matrix X-Series and Matrix
N-Series more than doubled in 1H 2008, compared to 1H 2007.
-- Triple-speed PoE shipments increased more than 75 percent in the first
half of 2008 compared to the year ago period as Enterasys continues to be
deployed in conjunction with IP telephony (VoIP) solutions from Avaya,
Cisco, Mitel, NEC, Nortel, Panasonic, ShoreTel, and Siemens.
-- RoamAbout® wireless revenue increased nearly 50 percent in Q2 2008
compared to the year ago quarter.
-- Revenues of the Enterasys Dragon® Security Command Console (DSCC)
security information and event management (SIEM) solution increased more
than 65 percent in 1H 2008 compared to the year ago period, while overall
Dragon software revenues were up nearly 16%.
-- License shipments of the Enterasys Network Access Control (NAC)
solution were up nearly 20 percent in the first half of 2008.
-- Enterasys delivered new solutions for 10 Gigabit Ethernet
connectivity, Distributed Intrusion Prevention, Dragon® Multi-Gigabit
IDP, Enterasys® D-Series workgroup switching, third-generation
Enterasys® Network Access Control, and ShoreTel certification.
-- New customer success stories were published for Bahia State House of
Representatives, Caixa Seguros, Dedini, InfoJobs, InteropNet, Scottish
Police College, Securities America, Turkish Ministry of Justice, University
of Bern, University of Florida Foundation and VeloPark.
-- Enterasys was positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant in a leading
analyst firm's Campus LAN Magic Quadrant.
-- Enterasys received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from
Communications Solutions magazine for Outstanding Innovation and Quality of
the Enterasys Secure Networks for VoIP Solution
-- Increased demand generation through a new North American channel
program with incentives designed to enhance competitiveness in new business
opportunities.
-- The addition of more than 300 new customers, bringing the total for
the past nine quarters to more than 1,500.
About Enterasys Networks
Enterasys is owned by a private investor group led by The Gores Group, LLC
and Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC. Enterasys delivers Secure
Networks™ that ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability
of IT services and the business users that rely on them -- without
sacrificing performance. Thousands of enterprises, government agencies and
educational institutions in more than 70 countries worldwide rely on our
convergence, compliance and connectivity solutions to deliver
business-oriented, identity-based visibility and control of individual user
and application priority and security. The company's culture is centered on
the principle, "There is nothing more important than our customers."
Enterasys' standards-based, open-architecture approach to network security
offers a long technology lifecycle and significant operational and business
benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership. Information about
Enterasys' award winning, policy-enabled switches, routers, wireless
products, security software and services is available at www.enterasys.com.
About The Gores Group
Founded in 1987, The Gores Group, LLC is a private equity firm focused on
acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can
benefit from the firm's operating experience and flexible capital base. The
firm combines the operational expertise and detailed due diligence
capabilities of a strategic buyer with the seasoned M&A team of a
traditional financial buyer. The Gores Group, LLC has become a leading
investor having demonstrated over time a reliable track record of creating
substantial value in its portfolio companies alongside management. The
firm's current private equity fund has committed equity capital of $1.3
billion. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, The Gores Group, LLC
maintains offices in Boulder, Colorado and London. For more information,
please visit www.gores.com.
About Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC
Tennenbaum Capital Partners is a Santa Monica, California-based private
investment firm managing over $7.5 billion in committed capital in private
funds. The firm's investment strategy is grounded in a long-term, value
approach, and it assists -- both financially and operationally --
transitional middle market companies in such industries as technology,
healthcare, energy, aerospace, business services, retail and general
manufacturing. Tennenbaum's core strengths include in-depth knowledge of
equity and debt financing vehicles in the public and private markets, as
well as a thorough understanding of special situations. For more
information, please visit www.tennenbaumcapital.com.
Contact Information: Contacts: Trent Waterhouse Enterasys Networks +1 978 684 1506 trent@enterasys.com Jackie Abramian BridgeView Marketing +1 617 584 2580 jackie@bridgeviewmarketing.com