ILS Technology's New Asia-Pacific Network Hub Boosts Global Collaboration and Security for Semiconductor Industry.

Chipmakers Gain Enhanced Connectivity To secureWISE Service To Improve Time-to-Market

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- ILS Technology, an industry leader in enabling intelligence through secure collaboration, today announced that its third ServiceNET[TM] network hub began operations in Hong Kong. The hub completes the company's secureWISE[TM] global connectivity service, offering real-time, secure collaboration for the semiconductor industry. Now designers, IC manufacturers and equipment OEMs can collaborate via eCentre([R]) from any point around the world using a secureWISE connection to fine-tune the manufacturing processes that speed leading-edge devices to market.

The Hong Kong hub completes ILS Technology's secure, high-performance global network and complements existing hubs in New York and London. The new Hong Kong hub is designed to improve network access to the burgeoning chip manufacturing industry in Asia-Pacific. The hub will provide device manufacturers in Japan, Taiwan, Mainland China, Malaysia, South Korea and Singapore with a dedicated network to communicate with design centers, supply-chain partners and equipment vendors around the world. Today, ILS Technology's secureWISE platform is installed in over nine fabs in the Asia-Pacific region alone.

The high performance built into ILS Technology's ServiceNET VPN allows a chip designer to monitor the real-time progress of chips being manufactured at a remote manufacturing center across the world. The network is designed to eliminate the need for multiple site-to-site VPN connections, lowering operation expenses and that impede network security and performance.

"Today's advanced ICs require a tremendous amount of collaboration to develop and manufacture. The opening of the Hong Kong hub improves the ability of the manufacturing supply chain to collaborate live from any remote location around the world," said Bill Ramus, senior vice president of commercial management at ILS Technology. "For example, using secureWISE, a designer can connect from his office in California and collaborate in real-time with a manufacturer in Taiwan with the confidence that the company's intellectual property is being protected. We're providing the industry with one of the best tools to achieve their time-to-market goals for leading-edge devices."

The network hub also offers another level of redundancy for ServiceNET to guarantee connectivity around the clock. The new hub has multiple communication paths that enable the system to select the most efficient, high performance path between two remote locations without any demand on a customer's information technology resources.

About ILS Technology

ILS Technology, LLC, provides software technology and services that change the way companies share information - within their own operations and their end-to-end supply chain. The company's solutions, including software as a service, enable secure and collaborative connections between intelligent devices in production environments, across enterprises and between businesses. Offering broad applicability in a wide array of industries, ILS Technology's offerings have been field-proven in markets where the protection of intellectual property is crucial and the ability to share information from any point around the world in real time is paramount. Solutions developed by ILS Technology adhere to demanding industry standards and are adaptable to virtually any technology platform regardless of vendor. For more information, visit http://www.ilstechnology.com.

ILS Technology is wholly owned subsidiary of Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. (http://www.pkoh.com), a leading provider of supply chain logistics services and a manufacturer of highly engineered products for industrial original equipment manufacturers.

ILS and eCentre are registered trademarks of ILS Technology, LLC. ServiceNET and secureWISE are trademarks of ILS Technology, LLC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.