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Encore
Networks Enhances Its IP+Legacy
BANDIT™ VPN
Product With The Delivery of Release 4.0 ELIOS™ Operating
System
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Release
4.0 Provides Major VPN Application Enhancements,
and Expanded List of Supported Legacy Protocols
for International Service Providers, Enterprise
Customers and Satellite Network Operators
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Dulles,
VA. November 12, 2003 – Encore
Networks, a developer of integrated IP+Legacy
Virtual Private Network (VPN) security solutions,
today announced the release of its IP operating
software, ELIOS™ 4.0 . Available immediately,
ELIOS™ 4.0 supports a common feature
set across all platforms of the entire Encore
Networks BANDIT™ IP+Legacy product
line, a family of uniquely versatile VPN
gateways that provides IP routing, QoS, stateful
inspection, firewall, IP VPN functionality,
dial backup, and extensive legacy data protocol
support.
With the enhanced list
of legacy protocols and new features added
to ELIOS™ 4.0 , carriers now have
the ability to converge additional legacy
networks to a single core IP network, providing
new revenue sources in secure, multi-service
solutions. Global enterprise customers
can seamlessly migrate legacy networks
to broadband IP VPN services providing
converged applications, including voice,
data, security, and VPNs over a single
network connection. Satellite users can
realize significant improvements in performance
of key applications over satellite networks
such as e-mail, Internet access and file
transfers.
The new software enhancements and product
features of the ELIOS™ 4.0 operating
system include: |
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| Remote Data
Unit (RDU) |
This 12-port
high-density serial module is primarily used
for host applications. Along with the BANDIT™ -
Plus , the Remote Data Unit provides a high
performance, multi-service IP+Legacy VPN host
solution, or high-density remote deployments.
Given its port density, the RDU can support
up to hundreds of remote locations in various
applications such as Lottery, Point-of-Sale,
SCADA and ATM banking. The flexibility of
its architecture allows for the provisioning
of different applications on different ports
(Any Service Any Port) whether the application
is synchronous or asynchronous based, while
migrating them simultaneously to broadband
IP. |
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| Enhanced List
of Legacy Protocol support |
ELIOS™ 4.0
not only enhances the library of legacy protocols
that are currently supported by the BANDIT™ product
lines, but also expands Encore's reach into
additional vertical markets such as Satellite,
Banking, international and government. The
list of additional legacy protocols supported
by ELIOS™ 4.0 includes AX.25, MATIP
airline reservation protocol, Bisync and Poll-Select. |
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| SLE™ Implementation |
Another
innovative feature supported by ELIOS™ 4.0
is an enhanced implementation of Encore Network's
patent pending breakthrough Selective Layer
Encryption (SLE™) protocol. This enhancement
provides a broader interoperability between
Encore IP+Legacy VPN product lines and various
satellite modem and VSAT terminal vendors.
The enhanced SLE™ capability allows
Satellite Networks Operators (SNO's) and equipment
vendors to offer their end users high performance
end-to-end broadband IP VPN solutions with
no performance degradation. |
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| Improved Network
monitoring and Stats collection |
ELIOS™ 4.0
further enhances the built-in capability of
stats collection, traps generation and problem
isolation tools in the BANDIT™ product
lines. Such enhancements cover incremental
features and applications such as IPsec and
GRE tunnels, DHCP (Client, Server and Relay),
SLE™, MATIP and AX.25. This provides
carriers with the means to support managed
network services and offer guaranteed service
level agreements (SLAs) in different vertical
markets |
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| International
Features |
The enhanced
international features allow Encore to expand
globally with its rich IP+legacy VPN solutions.
Such features include Nx64/E1 module and 2E1
port module with Drop & Insert functionality
for integrated support of voice, data and
VPN applications. |
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Abir Hnidi,
Encore's Chief Technical Officer said, “With
The latest ELIOS operating system software
release, Encore Networks continues to raise
the competitive bar and distance itself from
the rest of the crowd.” Added Hnidi, “The
capabilities and enhanced features introduced
in ELIOS release 4.0 allows Encore to expand
its targeted market footprint both domestically
and internationally”. |
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| ABOUT ENCORE
NETWORKS |
Encore Networks, Inc., 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.
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