New customers in APAC included:
-- Government - Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency
-- Government - National Native Title Tribunal
-- Manufacturing - Flexsys Chemicals
-- Retail - David Jones Limited
-- Telecommunications - NOKIA
New customers in the CALA region included:
-- Energy - Usina Moema
-- Government - Tribunal de Conta do MT
-- Healthcare - Paraná Clínicas
-- Manufacturing - Empresa Siderurgica del Peru S.A.
-- Transportation - Azul Linhas Aéreas
New customers in the EMEA region included:
-- Government - Conseil General - Vosges
-- Healthcare - Ospedale Del Mare
-- Manufacturing - Grupo Leche Pascual
-- Manufacturing - Dyckerhoff
-- Transportation - John Paul II International Airport
Krakow - Balice Ltd.
New customers in North America included:
-- Education - Great Rivers Educational Cooperative
-- Education - Scott County Schools
-- Finance - Bank of Old Monroe
-- Finance - Tomato Bank, Ltd.
-- Manufacturing - AVA Solar
Highlights for Q3 2008 include:
-- Siemens AG partnered with The Gores Group, LLC in a joint venture to
grow Enterasys, Siemens Enterprise Communications and SER.
-- Fixed Layer 2 switching revenue, led by the Enterasys SecureStack
A-Series and Enterasys SecureStack B-Series edge switches, was up
16 percent in Q3 2008 compared to the year ago quarter.
-- The Enterasys SecureStack B3 high-performance gigabit Ethernet edge
switch continued to have strong growth, with both revenues and port
shipments up 50 percent in the quarter compared to Q3 2007.
-- Fixed Layer 3 switching revenues for the Enterasys SecureStack C3
gigabit Ethernet stackable switch increased nearly 20 percent compared
to the year ago quarter, while power over Ethernet (PoE) port
shipments were up more than 40 percent.
-- In its second quarter of general availability, the Enterasys D2 secure
gigabit Ethernet workgroup switch continued to gain traction, with
revenues climbing 37 percent sequentially in Q3 2008.
-- The new Enterasys G-Series policy-based edge switch continued to gain
traction, with revenues growing more than 25 percent sequentially
in Q3 2008.
-- Revenues for the Enterasys I-Series industrial Ethernet offering were
up 70 percent sequentially in Q3 2008, and more than doubled compared
to the year ago quarter.
-- Diamond and Platinum Distributed Forwarding Engines (DFEs) for the
Enterasys Matrix N-Series flow-based switches continued to show
growth, with both revenues and port shipments increasing 4 percent
sequentially in Q3 2008.
-- 10 Gigabit Ethernet revenue and port shipments for the Matrix X-Series
and Matrix N-Series grew nearly 55 percent compared to the year ago
quarter.
-- Triple-speed PoE shipments increased 25 percent in the third quarter
compared to the year ago period as Enterasys continues to be deployed
in conjunction with VoIP and IP Video solutions from 3Com, Aastra,
Alcatel, Avaya, Cisco, LifeSize, Mitel, NEC (Sphere), Nortel,
Panasonic, Pelco, Polycom, ShoreTel, Siemens, Tandberg, and many
others.
-- RoamAbout wireless revenue increased more than 30 percent compared to
the year ago quarter.
-- The Dragon intrusion prevention system (IPS) had very strong growth,
with revenues up more than 70 percent sequentially, and 85 percent
compared to Q3 2007.
-- License shipments of the Enterasys Network Access Control (NAC)
solution more than doubled compared to the year ago quarter, while
revenues were up 90 percent.
-- Enterasys delivered the new 10 GbE Enterasys SecureStack C3 with
IPv6 support and a limited lifetime warranty.
-- New customer success stories were published for Boston College,
Renfe-Operadora, Sao Paulo City Audit Court, and Scotland's
Perth & Kinross Council.
-- The addition of more than 150 new customers, bringing the total
for the past ten quarters to more than 1,650.
About Enterasys Networks
Enterasys is part of a joint venture with Siemens Enterprise Communications
led by The Gores Group, LLC. The joint venture is a multi-billion dollar
provider of hardware, software, and services to deliver service-oriented
networks that enable service-oriented applications in a mobile and secure
manner. 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
The Gores Group, LLC, founded in 1987, 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 maintains offices in Los
Angeles, Boulder 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 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 Michelle Barry BridgeView Marketing +1 603 809 2748 michelle@bridgeviewmarketing.com