Serco appointed as a Value Added Reseller of Steel Belted remote access solution

Network Utilities has appointed Serco, the UKs largest outsourcing company for the Public Sector, as an official reseller in the UK of its remote access authentication and accounting solution, Steel-Belted Radius Enterprise Edition.

Network Utilities has appointed Serco, the UKs largest outsourcing company for the Public Sector, as an official reseller in the UK of its remote access authentication and accounting solution, Steel-Belted Radius Enterprise Edition.

Announcing the appointment, Michele Lewington, Managing Director of Network Utilities, said Network Utilities is a UK market leader in the provisioning of remote access authentication solutions and we believe that by aligning our strengths with those of Serco we can extend the benefits of this technology to the Public Sector in a very meaningful way."

Brian Pennington, Business Unit Director of SERCO Justice, said With our commitment to the Public Sector, as an IT security specialist, we recognise the need to have a complete solution that can fulfil the requirements of our customers and we believe that Steel-Belted Radius allows us to put controls in place for many of those security authentication requirements."

Steel-Belted Radius was developed by Funk Software of Cambridge, Massachusetts - for whom Network Utilities is the leading UK partner and has supported Funk products for almost 12 years.

About Network Utilities
Network Utilities is a privately owned company, which was formed in 1989 as a Software House to primarily focus on the development of network communications tools. This subsequently provided a sound basis for strategic alliances with developers of similar products requiring a UK presence and resulted in Network Utilities forging partnership arrangements with several international software manufacturers. Since 1992 Network Utilities has been committed to providing and supporting a 'best of breed range of products for the management and security of the enterprise network. Its extended portfolio now also addresses Internet and wireless LAN security. Network Utilities (Systems) Ltd is headquartered at Liberty House, 158a Ewell Road, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 6HE, UK, Tel: +44 (0) 20 8390 9911. For more information about the company, please visit the Network Utilities web site at http://www.netutils.com .

About Funk Software
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Funk Software develops Odyssey an end-to-end 802.1 x WLAN security solution that can be easily and widely deployed on enterprise networks. It is also the leading provider of commercial AAA solutions for wireless operator, service provider, and enterprise networks. In use on thousands of public and private networks worldwide, the Steel-Belted Radius family of products delivers a AAA solution on the scale required by the largest carriers and service providers. And scales easily to meet the centralized authentication needs of the enterprise. The Steel-Belted Radius family of RADIUS/AAA solutions includes Steel-Belted Radius/Service Provider Edition, Steel-Belted Radius Concurrency Server, Steel-Belted Radius Port Allocation System, Steel-Belted Radius Mobile lB Module, and Steel-Belted Radius/Enterprise Edition.

About Serco
Serco is an international provider of management services to government and industry. The company covers a wide range of activities, from controlling satellites and operating computer networks for the European Space Agency, to managing and operating the Docklands Light Railway where Serco was recently voted National Rail Operator of the Year for the second time. The Company employs 37,000 staff in 37 countries.

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