# Company Overview

GoAhead Software is the leading provider of off-the-shelf management software for Internet infrastructure devices. GoAhead provides solutions that accelerate time-to-market, increase customer satisfaction and reduce support costs. GoAhead delivers these benefits by making Internet infrastructure devices self-reliant - dependable, available, and easy to manage.

With the explosion of the Internet and e-commerce transactions, the network and devices that carry the Internet traffic and information must be self-reliant and highly available. GoAhead products provide remote access and control, configuration management, remote upgrading capabilities, fault detection and correction, and automatic switchover to enable self-reliance and 99.999 percent availability. In addition, GoAhead enables a variety of Internet appliances and embedded devices to manage themselves by incorporating some of the same technologies including remote upgrading, access and control.

GoAhead Software improves user experiences with technology by making device fixes and upgrades transparent and outages a thing of the past. For manufacturers, GoAhead products reduce device support costs and time-to-market. Devices with GoAhead software do their jobs without interruption, don't rely on human intervention, and are less likely to become outdated.

# Company History

GoAhead Software, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., was founded by CEO Michael O'Brien in 1995 to develop software for managing complex infrastructure devices. His work with system performance and monitoring products revealed a critical need for management tools that could solve device-specific problems without user intervention. GoAhead is well positioned for growth with investment backing from Columbia Capital, Voyager Capital, Intel and Cedar Grove Investments.

# Products

GoAhead takes a systems approach to self-reliant devices. The suite of management software solutions coordinates management across platform hardware, operating system, applications, cards and other peripherals in a tightly integrated manner.

GoAhead HighAvailability enables devices and appliances to provide 99.999 percent availability, managing faults so as not to cause downtime. Devices quickly and automatically detect and diagnose faults and initiate user-defined recovery actions. If necessary, devices will automatically transfer operation from active components to redundant standby components.

GoAhead FieldUpgrader provides the ability to upgrade the software inside a device or appliance remotely. This allows the product to be fully supported within its embedded environment without direct human contact.

GoAhead WebServer, an open source application, enables a device or appliance to be accessed from a remote browser for status and control.

GoAhead provides development and consulting support for creating and integrating software solutions into specific products.GoAhead foresees a future that will require Internet infrastructure devices to be far more intelligent and self-reliant.GoAhead will remain at the leading edge by steadily building upon its technologies to add more predictive and learning capabilities to its products.