Dulles, VA. October 24, 2005 – Encore Networks, a developer of Virtual Private Network (VPN) security solutions, today announced that Satellite Communication Technology Ltd. (SCT), an authorized airtime distributor for Eutelsat, has selected Encore Networks to provide secure, site-to-site satellite connectivity at remote construction sites in the United Kingdom. SCT has deployed Encore’s VSR-30™ IP VPN router for Skanska, the European construction giant, at sites where temporary and secure communications is required immediately and where installing terrestrial circuits would cause unacceptable time and logistical constraints.

“Satellite broadband enables Skanska’s communication system to be up and running the day they arrive on site and provides the flexibility to transfer all network equipment and services to a new construction site when the current project ends”, stated Steve Chilver, SCT Chief Executive Officer. “Encore’s VSR-30 allows Skanska to retain complete control of their network and provides the freedom to run all existing applications without modification.”

Encore’s VSR-30™ provides high performance, end-to-end VPN solutions and includes features such as IP routing via Selective Layer Encryption, advanced QoS capabilities, a stateful packet inspection firewall, embedded address management capabilities such as NAT and PrAT, in addition to VPN flavors such as IPsec, and GRE. All functionality can be managed both in-band and/or out-of-band either remotely or locally via intuitive terminal access over a secure connection. Also, interoperability with standards and proprietary based methods of TCP acceleration ensures smooth deployment across multi-vendor satellite/terrestrial networks.

SCT, an Authorized Encore Networks Reseller, recommended the Encore solution for two reasons. First, Encore’s industry leading Selective Layer Encryption technology that enables satellite operators, systems integrators and enterprises to securely connect satellite networks with terrestrial Internet links as part of an end-to-end VPN solution. Second, competing vendors required Skanska to subscribe to a support service that required information on their applications and routing be divulged. The Encore solution is application agnostic.

“The competing products we evaluated required a detailed knowledge of Skanska’s application infrastructure, which for security and support reasons, the Skanska IT organization was understandably unwilling to accept. When security is paramount, no IT manager is willing to provide such information to anyone outside the company.” Chilver continued, “We were able to introduce the Encore appliances using SLE operating in conjunction with the TCP acceleration provided by ViaSat LinkStar modems, ensuring that applications could be run in a VPN environment with no modifications and without any of the performance degradation normally associated with IPSec implementations over satellite.