VSR-30™ To Be Introduced At The
Satellite 2004 Conference and Exhibition
New Washington Convention Center
Washington, DC - March 3-5 - Booth #487

Dulles, VA. March 1, 2004 – Encore Networks, a leading developer of integrated network security and access products, today announced it will introduce, at the Satellite 2004 Conference and Expo, the VSR-30™, a purpose-built Virtual Private Network (VPN) router designed specifically to deliver accelerated throughput as well as encryption over combined broadband satellite and terrestrial networks. Available immediately and list priced at $995, the VSR-30™ is the solution for satellite operators and system integrators that need to securely connect satellite networks with terrestrial Internet links as part of an end-to-end VPN solution.

IEC projects that broadband satellite service revenues will increase from $15 billion this year to $40 billion in 2010 and will account for 30 percent of all broadband services revenues worldwide. Security concerns dictate the need to encrypt satellite communications. However, encrypting satellite communications that subsequently flow through the Internet as part of an overall site-to-site solution often imposes an unacceptable throughput limitation on each connection. The VSR-30™ solves this problem.

“Broadband access services over satellite networks will experience significant growth over the next few years,” stated Abir Hnidi, Encore Networks Chief Technical Officer. “Encore is committed to addressing the VPN requirements of the satellite market via the delivery of the VSR-30™ VPN solution, coupled with its innovative Selective Layer Encryption capabilities.”

Installed like any common terrestrial-based VPN router, the VSR-30 provides high performance, end-to-end VPN solutions and includes standard 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.

The VSR-30™, with its feature-rich ELIOS™ operating system and built-in support of Selective Layer Encryption capability, brings terrestrial VPN high performance to satellite networks. Also, interoperability with standards and proprietary based methods of TCP acceleration ensures smooth and easy deployment across multi-vendor satellite-terrestrial networks. Such functionality opens up new markets for satellite operators and systems integrators and allows them to offer a wide variety of applications and value-added services to their SME customers. Such applications include:

- Reliable broadband internet access
- High performance on-net and off-net VPN solutions
- Enhanced file transfer and unified messaging applications
- Managed security and access control solutions
- High available solutions with dial back-up and fail-over capabilities