Tecnonet To Offer Quarry Technologies Security Service Router To Italian Telecommunications Marketplace

Quarry Technologies, the performance leading supplier of carrier-class security service routers, and Tecnonet S.p.A, the leading Italian communications and networking systems integrator, today announced that Tecnonet will now offer Quarrys iQ series Security Service Routers as part of the companys solutions for the telecommunications industry in Italy.

ROME, ITALY and BURLINGTON, MA (PRWEB) December 24, 2003 --Quarry Technologies®, the performance leading supplier of carrier-class security service routers, and Tecnonet S.p.A, the leading Italian communications and networking systems integrator, today announced that Tecnonet will now offer Quarrys iQ series Security Service Routers as part of the companys solutions for the telecommunications industry. The agreement gives Tecnonet the ability to resell Quarrys complete system, providing what Tecnonet views as a distinct market advantage as carriers look to enhance their virtual private networking (VPN) offerings with network-based security services.

Quarrys system addresses the security requirements of carriers and their clients, enabling providers to offer new billable services in a simple and cost-effective way," stated Giuliano Maurizi, General Manager of Tecnonet. Our mission is to help carriers and enterprise clients solve their problems and simplifying their daily operations. We are very excited of this alliance with Quarry, since their security service routers meet those goals out of the box. There really isnt anything comparable today on the market."

Avi Legmann, senior vice president of sales and business development at Quarry Technologies, agrees that there is a great deal of opportunity as carriers search for solutions to address ongoing security concerns. The European marketplace is a significant one for Quarry and we are very pleased to be working with Tecnonet to offer service providers in that region a means to offer a menu of network-based security services and to stay one step ahead of the constant barrage of security breaches from worms, viruses, denial of service attacks, and add value to their VPN services at the same time."

The Quarry iQ-series Security Service Routers allow service providers to offer network-based security services to IP, MPLS and Frame Relay VPNs, extending the enterprise security perimeter to the edge of the service providers network. The iQ products are the industry's most scalable and manageable carrier-class network security platforms. They are full-featured Internet routing platforms optimized for delivering high-performance security services, including IPsec encrypted VPNs, stateful firewalls and intrusion detection systems.

The iQSMS Service Management Suite is a set of applications that provides an intuitive way to quickly create, validate and monitor the many advanced security services enabled by the iQ-series Security Service Routers. Together, the iQSMS software suite and iQ-series Security Service Routers allow network operators to readily offer a comprehensive menu of billable security services, each tailored on a customer-by-customer basis. In addition, the client-server based suite of applications provides all the necessary tools to define user privileges, configure network parameters, customize subscriber services, and enable customer self-management.

About Quarry Technologies
Quarry Technologies, Inc. is a privately held developer of carrier-class security service routers. The Quarry product family is comprised of the iQ4000® and the iQ8000® Security Service Routers and the iQSMS Service Management Suite. The iQ product family allows network service providers to offer a broad range of security services for their corporate customers of IP, MPLS and frame relay VPNs, including secure remote access, high-speed encryption, stateful firewall inspection, intrusion detection, denial of service (DoS) attack prevention, virus and content filtering and SLA monitoring. Quarry Technologies was founded in November 1998 and is backed by some of the worlds leading venture capitalists and strategic investors. The company is located at 8 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803 USA and on the World Wide Web at www.quarrytech.com.

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