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Contact:
Joanne Szymanski
Opnix, Inc.
480-966-2900, x107



OPNIX JOINS INTERNET2 TO ADVANCE INTERNET PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT 
TECHNOLOGY

Focus on Routing and End-to-End High Performance Networking

July 1, 2002 -- TEMPE, Ariz.--Opnix, Inc., the leader in the emerging IP 
Route Optimization market, today announced that it has joined the 
university-led Internet2(R) research and development consortium.  As an 
Internet2 Corporate Sponsor, Opnix will work together with the Internet2 
community to take the first detailed look at the overall performance of 
the Internet2 network infrastructure.  The results of this collaboration 
will contribute to the Internet2 routing working group and the Internet2 
End-to-End Performance Initiative.

The Internet2 network infrastructure includes advanced national backbone 
networks, regional high-performance network aggregation points, called 
gigaPoPs, and the campus networks being deployed by Internet2 members. 
Opnix's Orbit 1000 Routing Intelligence System will shed light on the 
End-to-End performance issues within the combined infrastructure by 
providing a consistent measurement capability across domains through 
real-time data gathering on the performance across each path of the 
infrastructure.  In addition, with the use of the Opnix central CORE 
database, all collected data will be available to the entire Internet2 
community to conduct necessary trend and statistical analysis to 
determine performance capabilities and identify problems.

"This is an exciting opportunity for Opnix to play a key role in such an 
advanced initiative." said Jane Evans, Chief Executive Officer for 
Opnix.  "The Orbit 1000's unique ability to probe such a large and high 
performance testbed infrastructure, and collect data to such a detailed 
level will provide a new window into network performance and management."

"We are very pleased to be working with Opnix to better understand the 
performance characteristics of the combined Internet2 network 
infrastructure," said Guy Almes, Internet2's chief engineer.  "We are 
convinced that high-quality performance measurement is the first step in 
overcoming the hurdles to reliably providing high-performance end-to-end 
networking."

The first Orbit 1000 installations have taken place in the Armonk, New 
York PoP, and the Merit Network gigaPoP in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Harvard 
University, the University of Oregon and the University of Arizona 
installations will be completed by July 2002.

About Internet2(R)
Led by over 190 U.S. universities, working with industry and government, 
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and 
technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the 
creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnerships 
among academia, industry, and government that helped foster today's 
Internet in its infancy. For more information about Internet2, see: 
http://www.internet2.edu/

About Opnix
Opnix, Inc. is the leader in the emerging IP Route Optimization market. 
With the development of the Orbit 1000 Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), 
Opnix redefines "intelligent" routing.  Orbit 1000 is a revolutionary 
CPE that resides in the customer data center to actively measure 
conditions of all Internet routes available to the customer.  Based on 
these measurements and the network needs of each customer, Orbit 
automatically updates customer routers, thereby reducing latency by as 
much as 75%, increasing network performance four to ten times, and 
reducing customer bandwidth costs by as much as 45%.  Opnix Inc., 
located in Tempe, Arizona, is a privately held, venture-funded company. 
To learn more about how Opnix can help you meet your Internet 
performance and budget needs, please visit us on the web at 
http://www.opnix.com.


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