Dulles,
VA. March 3, 2004 – Encore Networks,
a leading developer of integrated IP+Legacy
Virtual Private Network (VPN) security
solutions, today announced that it has
signed a reseller agreement with Skycasters.
Skycasters will add Encore’s complete
line of IP only and IP+Legacy VPN security
appliances to their broadband satellite
networks, systems and solutions.
Skycasters, the nations largest value
added reseller of the Hughes Direcway
satellite internet service provides broadband
satellite Internet access and data service
to thousands of business, government,
educational and non-profit user’s including
Dominion Power, Comfort Inns, ChevronTexaco,
KFC and the American Red Cross. Headquartered
in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Akron,
Ohio, Skycasters provides e-mail, web
hosting, VPN, firewall and high-speed
satellite Internet access to multi-user
business customers located in rural or
other under-served areas where conventional
broadband data service is not cost-effectively
available.
“Skycasters will provide immediate access
to an impressive customer base enhancing
Encore’s strategy of addressing the high
performance VPN requirements in the satellite
market,” stated Bill Grant, Encore’s
Vice-President of Broadband Network Solutions.
“Encore’s complete site-to-site satellite
VPN solution will fit perfectly into
Skycasters product portfolio.”
Encore Network’s VPN security products,
including the BANDIT™ and the VSR-30™
are uniquely versatile IP+Legacy and
IP only VPN appliances that provide satellite
enterprise data networks support for
IPsec VPN, stateful inspection firewall,
IP routing and QoS, numerous legacy data
protocols, and Encore Network's exclusive
patented breakthrough Selective Layer
Encryption (SLE™). The ability to perform
SLE™ to IPsec tunnel switching allows
satellite operators to offer their customers
both end-to-end on-net and off-net VPN
solutions. Encore’s solutions enables
satellite users, running applications
over IP, to realize the benefits of broadband
communications without the performance
degradation associated with satellite
circuits.
“With satellite Internet access, it
shouldn’t matter how far the customer
is from a central office or depend on
other location specific criteria to determine
service quality,” said John Williams,
CEO of Skycasters. “Encore insures this
quality of service by providing the only
VPN appliance to date with Selective
Layer Encryption for satellite applications
that does not degrade throughput.” |
About Encore
Networks
Encore Networks www.encorenetworks.com is
a leading developer of integrated IP+Legacy
VPNs and security applications, converged
signaling, and broadband voice and data solutions
for both carriers and enterprises. Encore
provides advanced security solutions that
include encryption, stateful inspection,
firewall, 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 SkyCasters
Skycasters LLC, www.skycasters.com is a full-service satellite ISP and engineering
company with thousands of corporate and
government customers in the 50 U.S. states
and 14 other countries. As the only facilities-based
Direcway satellite Internet provider, Skycasters
delivers the highest possible levels of
satellite Internet service and provides
unique services including cost-effective
private enterprise networks, satellite-VLANS
and high-performance satellite VPN services. |
