Dulles,
VA. December 2, 2003 – Encore Networks
today announced a reseller agreement
with Phillips Communications & Equipment
(Phillips). Through this agreement, Phillips
will sell, service, and support Encore's
entire line of IP over frame products,
legacy protocol data FRADs, and broadband
VPN security products, including Encore's
recently announced BANDIT™ VPN gateway.
Phillips Communications is a value-added
reseller of new and refurbished telecommunications
products and services. With a plethora
of products from networking companies
such as Adtran, RAD Data Communications,
Net to Net, Telect, and now Encore, Phillips
provides voice, data, and video equipment
solutions, engineering support, and technical
services to virtually every type of industry
in North America and abroad. Serving
these industries since 1979, Phillips
also provides its customers additional
services including systems integration,
inventory management, and 24-hour technical
support.
"By adding Encore products in general,
and the BANDIT™ in particular to our
product portfolio, we are broadening
our technology mix, offering our customers
more options for upgrading slow, legacy
networks into fast, secure infrastructures," stated
Bobby Baine, Vice President and General
Manager of Phillips.
Encore Networks' BANDIT™ is a secure
broadband access router, ideally suited
for branch offices, that combines Virtual
Private Network (VPN) security, remote
diagnostics, dial backup, and extended
network management tools in a single
compact device. The BANDIT™ offers the
best combination of price and performance
as an all-in-one solution for IP routing,
VPN, firewall security, legacy data protocols,
diagnostics, combined with SNMP based
network management for carrier, enterprise,
and small business customers.
"Phillips has built a solid reputation
over the last twenty years as a company
that offers multi-location businesses
ways to improve their bottom line by
using technologies that enable them to
effectively connect to the latest converged
networks," stated Bill Grant, Vice
President of Broadband Access Solutions
for Encore Networks. "We are excited
to join the Phillips team as a featured
manufacturer."
In addition to the BANDIT™, this agreement
covers Encore's complete line of voice
over packet products including Integrated
Access Devices, which support the transmission
of voice, data, video, and fax over either
Frame Relay or IP networks. The IADs
include the FRADs that combine legacy
data protocols and IP over frame links.
Ideally suited for enterprise users,
these products provide extensive IP and
legacy protocol support. |
About Encore
Networks
Encore Networks www.encorenetworks.com is
a leading developer of integrated, broadband
IP+Legacy™ VPN and security platforms, signaling
protocol conversion, and converged voice
and data solutions for both carriers and
enterprises. Encore provides advanced security
solutions that include encryption, stateful
inspection IP VPNs, support of legacy data
protocols and built-in dial backup and fail-over
capabilities. Encore’s innovative signaling
and data solutions include signaling conversion
for voice migration from circuit to packet,
a broad line of IADs, VPN router CPE and
host products to transform legacy data networks
to broadband IP infrastructure.
About Phillips
Communications Equipment
Headquartered in Charlottesville,
VA, Phillips (www.pc-e.net) was established
in 1979 as a value added reseller of new
and refurbished telecommunication products
and services. Phillips has grown into a
major distributor of new central office
and transmission equipment to large carriers
and enterprise customers in the utilities,
retail, financial and transportation markets. |
