GTEN Taps CloudShield Technologies' Expertise for Delivering High-Speed VoIP and Content Control Solutions; Partnership Extends CloudShield's Reach into New, International Markets.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- CloudShield Technologies, Inc., leading provider of intelligent managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality infrastructure for value-added security, VoIP and traffic management services, and GTEN GTEN Government Technology Executive News AG, a leading provider of Lawful Intercept technologies and services and IT security solutions, have partnered to deliver solutions on CloudShield's advanced high-speed network content control systems in parts of Europe and in the Middle East. Under the agreement, GTEN will offer GTEN-branded applications on the CloudShield CS-2000 in order to meet new applications performance demands from their service provider and law enforcement agency Noun 1. law enforcement agency - an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation - a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice customers. GTEN will also expand its current solution offering and resell re·sell tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells 1. To sell again. 2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. CloudShield's VoIP management, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation and Peer-to-Peer application control solutions. The entire suite of solutions will be available through GTEN in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Middle East. To meet the requirements of their customer base, GTEN needed a high performance network application platform with a robust and flexible development environment. The CS-2000 platform from CloudShield enables network operators to inspect, analyze and control IP traffic content -- including voice, video and data -- at multi-gigabit rates in a compact, scalable platform. CloudShield systems are currently deployed by some of the largest network service providers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Japan. "We have been actively seeking a partner that can provide a comprehensive processing platform for complex, high-speed network applications such as VoIP Lawful Intercept," said Paul Hoffman
"GTEN's experience and expertise in monitoring, recording and reconstructing network communications aligns well with CloudShield's solution focus," said Vikash Varma, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at CloudShield. "This partnership supports CloudShield's strategic plan for global expansion, enabling us to offer solutions in new markets. By combining our best-of-breed technology with GTEN's network security and Lawful Intercept applications experience, service providers and law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). in Europe and the Middle East have access to the solutions they need for today's converged IP communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. ." CloudShield's high-speed VoIP and content control solutions are available immediately from GTEN. About CloudShield CloudShield is a provider of multi-gigabit, multi-function, programmable, deep packet inspection Analyzing network traffic to discover the type of application that sent the data. In order to prioritize traffic or filter out unwanted data, deep packet inspection can differentiate data, such as video, audio, chat, voice over IP (VoIP), e-mail and Web. platforms targeted at large network operators. The company's unique capabilities allow existing content inspection, monitoring and security applications to be performed at true gigabit speeds on even small packet sizes, and enables entirely new classes of applications and revenue-generating services. The CloudShield platform can inspect, process and modify packets at multi-gigabit speeds without introducing noticeable latency. Through its application partners, CloudShield has helped deliver solutions to carriers in North America, Europe and Asia, as well as several important federal government customers. More information about CloudShield can be found at www.cloudshield.com. About GTEN/DATAKOM Headquartered in Ismaning, Germany, near Munich, GTEN AG offers operators of telecommunication services monitoring solutions based on legal regulations. In addition, GTEN offers IT-Security and IT-Forensic Services for companies and organizations. Consulting, implementation, training and investigation on location will help to detect and protect against internal offenders, competitive intelligence and other abnormal conditions, and legal regulations (KonTraG, Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II Basel II is the second of the Basel Accords, which are recommendations on banking laws and regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The purpose of Basel II is to create an international standard that banking regulators can use when creating regulations , EU-Directives) will be fulfilled. GTEN is a spin-off from DATAKOM (DATAKOM.de) a German company founded in 1986, with more than 10,000 customer installations. |
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