Leading German ISP, 1&1, Introduces Filtered Internet service to Their Home Internet Subscribers

1&1 chooses PureSight to deliver family-safe Internet connectivity as new service to hundreds of thousands of subscribers

Montabaur, Germany and Petah Tikva, Israel (PRWEB) September 14, 2004 -- 1&1, one of the largest German ISPs, announced the launch of "1&1 Kindersicherung" (secured surfing for children), now readily available to all of 1&1's Internet subscribers. The new service is powered by PureSight, with the most advanced filtering technology available on the market today, Artificial Content Recognition (ACR) developed by Puresight, Inc. PureSight, recently selected as SC Magazines Best Buy" filtering solution, allows parents to manage their children's activity on the Web -- preventing them from accidentally accessing offensive and inappropriate content and helping to keep their Internet visit, a fun and entertaining experience.

Users will be able to purchase the service and customize the access privileges for each member of the family in accordance with their specific online content preferences. Parents need to be concerned about allowing their children open access to all that is available on the Web. 1&1 can now help ensure a family-safe environment for their subscribers and is leading the way among European ISPs who are taking a proactive role in providing parents with tools to manage their family's Internet connectivity.

We were seeking a leading solution that would not only handle today's problematic web content -- but also anything that might show up tomorrow as well," said 1&1's CEO Andreas Gauger. "PureSight's technological advantage allows us to provide a solution that keeps up and is therefore, truly effective in blocking children's exposure to inappropriate content. In our research, PureSight was the most accurate solution and the easiest for families to install and use."

PureSight is a next generation content filtering solution. It allows ISPs to provide a Value Added Service that manages, monitors, filters and reports on Internet use.

The products core technology, Artificial Content Recognition (ACR), enables it to categorize content on-the-fly, making PureSight the most effective and accurate filtering solution and providing 100% coverage of the Internet. IP Value, a leading software product and integration company, played an integral role in delivering the final filtering solution required by 1&1.

The company provides a software suite to enhance and streamline operational processes and is a single point of contact for a bundled suite of software solutions, implementation of services, and systems maintenance. IP Value assists ISPs to deploy PureSight at a reduced time to market, in a client server, centralized server or managed server configuration-whichever best fits the service providers unique business model.

1&1's launch of PureSight promises to bring to many homes the piece of mind that was missing for parents whose children spend time on-line," said Michael Isakov, PureSight's VP of Sales in EMEA. ISPs are increasingly deploying filtering capabilities as awareness of the risk grows and subscribers demand a solution. Google just announced adding another 1 billiion pages to their index -- one needs to consider whether a database can ever keep pace with such growth in content. This is the reason PureSight, with its revolutionary new technology, is being deployed by more and more organizations around the world."

About 1&1

1&1 Internet AG is based in Germany (a subsidiary of United Internet Group, a public company of some 3,000 employees). 1&1 was established in 1992 and employs 1,200 people. It currently hosts over 2.8 million British, German, French and US-customer websites, 16,000 Dedicated Servers and 4 million domain names at its 22,000 server strong European Data Centres. 1&1 prides itself in being the one-stop shop for all web solutions.

1&1 is an accredited Registrar with ICANN (.com), Nominet (.co.uk), Afilias (.info) and NeuLevel (.biz). 1&1 are also Microsoft Joint Development Partners being the first to launch Microsoft .NET Server 2003 hosting in Europe. For more information, visit www.1&1.org.

About Puresight

PureSight is an innovator in next-generation Internet Content Filtering solutions. The company's PureSight line of filtering products are based on leading-edge AI technology, allowing analysis and categorization of Internet content in realtime. The company provides solutions for corporate, education, Internet Service Provider and home markets, and partners with leading security appliance manufacturers and security software developers to offer solutions for any virtually network size or configuration. The company is based in Orange County, California and maintains research and development facilities in Petah Tikva, Israel. For more information on PureSight and its products, contact PureSight at: info@puresight.com, web: http://www.puresight.com

About IP VALUE

IP VALUE GmbH is a leading software company specializing in product integration of basic operational and value-added services for IP network operators. The core program of its integrated premioss OSS product suite is designed to automate typical administrative and operating processes. The software suite provides integrated modules, which allow IP network operators to considerably extend their range of value-added services. The company is a joint venture of network economy GmbH, Frankfurt; Sal. Oppenheim Bank, Köln; and adesso AG, Dortmund. For more information on IP VALUE, visit www.ip-value.de

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