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Q4 2007 Worldwide Network Security Market Shares
Sales up 14% as Enterprises Integrate Network Security Functions

RENO, NV and STERLING, VA – February 13, 2008 – Synergy Research Group and Current Analysis today announced the availability of the Synergy Q4 2007 Worldwide Network Security Market Share report. Quarter to quarter sales were up 4% to $1.45 billion. Total 2007 network security sales were up 14% to $5.45 billion.

"Sales of all hybrid network security categories grew by double-digits year to year, with the exception of the software category," says Aaron Vance, Senior Analyst at Synergy Research Group. "Enterprises are integrating security capabilities into their core infrastructure (as well as in the data center) while deploying more specialized point-products at the edge leading to strong growth of both stand-alone and modular form factors."

In Q4 the market for IDS/IPS solutions increased 5% sequentially to $226.7 and grew 14 percent over 2006. IDS/IPS market share leaders for the year were Cisco, IBM (ISS), 3Com (TippingPoint), Symantec, and Juniper.

The SSL VPN market increased 8% sequentially in Q4, generating $96.7 million in revenue, and climbed 39% compared to 2006. SSL VPN market share leaders for the year were Juniper, Citrix, Cisco, F5, and Nortel. The segment is being driven, in part, by logistically distributed Enterprises seeking flexible and secure access to remote network resources.

The network security market segmentation is based on Synergy’s domain expertise, and numbers derived from a proven methodology that reconciles vendor-reported shipments (bottoms-up measurement) with publicly reported revenue results (top-down measurement) to provide the utmost accuracy. A detailed definition of the market is available in the full report

Network Security

The Synergy Research Network Security Research Service provides market analysis, market share, and forecast reports for NAC (In-Line & Out-of-Band), Hardware Hybrid Solutions, Software Hybrid Solutions, SSL VPNs, and IDS/IPS products.

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	Market Coverage
	Total Network Security NAC (In-Line & Out-of-Band) Hardware Hybrid Solutions HW-Low End Hybrid Solutions HW-High End Hybrid Solutions HW-Next Gen Hybrid Solutions	Software Hybrid Solutions SSL VPNs Low-End SSL VPNs High-End SSL VPNs Total IDS/IPS Equipment IDS Equipment IPS Equipment

	Companies Tracked
	3Com Array Aventail Checkpoint Cisco Citrix	CA F5 Fortinet Intrusion ISS Juniper	McAfee NFR Nokia Nortel Sonic Wall Secure Computing	Symantec Top Layer WatchGuard ZyXel

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