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SUN VETERAN GARY OLSON JOINS MU DYNAMICS AS VP WW SALES TO BUILD ON 2008 CUSTOMER ADOPTION AND INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

SUNNYVALE, CA – December 16, 2008 - Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in providing proactive service assurance solutions that help network operators eliminate service downtime and help their network equipment vendors reduce field fire drills, today announced the appointment of Gary Olson as Vice President, Worldwide Sales. Olson joins Mu from Sun Microsystems where he served as Director for US Software Sales. He comes to Mu at the end of a year when the company has expanded its capabilities and footprint within leading network operators, government agencies and their varied product vendor suppliers. Based on 2008 product advancements for the more than 100 unique customer installations, SC Magazine announced Mu has won its 2008 ‘Innovators Award’ for the second year running based upon superior customer focus, product innovation and attention to quality.

“Mu’s customers take immense pride in being able to apply a rigorous and effective process to the quality and reliability of their respective services and product development efforts,” said Dave Kresse, CEO Mu Dynamics. “I am very excited to welcome Gary on board to continue powering our customer growth and to provide seasoned leadership to our sales organization. He brings a proven ability to clearly articulate customer and prospect needs, ensuring that we continue to deliver the right solution for our growing customer base.

Prior to Sun, Olson was Vice President, Central United States, Canada and Latin/South America at SeeBeyond – acquired by Sun in 2005. He provided critical and key sales leadership at SeeBeyond responsible for the company’s growth from a $35M pre-IPO to a publicly held company acquired by Sun for $300M. He was also a long-time Officer with the United States Air Force, serving in Desert Storm, and stands ready to serve Mu’s commercial and government customer base.  Olson holds a BS degree in Engineering and Political Science from the United States Air Force Academy as well as a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Troy State University-European Region.

Mu's 2008 Customer Footprint Expands

Tapping that customer focus during 2008, Mu added more than three dozen new customer implementations during the year in addition to growing business at dozens of existing customers. Of primary interest among these customers were VoIP ‘stress testing’ and IPTV & IMS reliability testing. xChange editors detailed GMI IPTV and IMS testing using Mu at Verizon and there are documented on going efforts to improve product quality through the use of the Mu solution at network infrastructure leaders including Juniper Networks, Fortinet, F5 and Starent Networks. IPv6 deployment and readiness testing using Mu at varied government agencies and commercial operators also grew throughout the year.

Covering VoIP and IPv6 testing, Telecommunications Magazine recently held a webinar hosted by Verizon, Qwest and Mu detailing the reliability and security requirements for the 21^st Century Telecommunication Operators.  Similarly, the lead information assurance analyst for the US Navy, Mike Davis, Information Assurance/Security Technical Authority for the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), delivered a seminar for Defense Systems and Mu discussing the need for reliability metrics throughout the product deployment lifecycle.

SC Magazine Innovator’s Award

The December 2008 issue of SC Magazine recognizes Mu with ‘Industry Innovator’ honors. “Mu’s product began as a way to test critical components of large networks,” said Dr. Peter Stephenson, SC Magazine contributing editor and Associate Program Director in the Master of Science in Information Assurance program and Research Professor at the National Center for the Study of Counter-Terrorism and Cyber Crime, both at Norwich University. “Today the Mu tests those components, but it also looks at a bigger network picture as well. And for Mu, innovation does not stop there. This company hardly makes a move without socializing through a base of customers and, perhaps not-yet-customers.”

Dr. Stephenson calls out Mu’s greatest strength as: “Superior creativity and unbridled customer communication.”

About Mu Dynamics
Mu Dynamics proactively eliminates the high cost of service, application and network downtime. Mu's solution automates a systematic and repeatable process that identifies hard-to-detect sources of potential downtime within IP services, applications, and underlying networks. The award-winning Mu solution is deployed at more than 100 locations, primarily at leading global service providers, cable operators and network product vendors. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Mu is backed by leading venture capital firms that include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Focus Ventures.

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