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February 11, 2008
Enterasys Completes Certification for ShoreTel Technology Partner Program
(Market Wire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) ANDOVER, MA, February 11 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Enterasys Networks Inc., the Secure Networks
Company(TM), announced today it is the first networking company to complete
certification for ShoreTel's Technology Partner Program. The ShoreTel
Technology Partner Program provides market and innovation leaders the
opportunity to expand their reach by connecting directly with ShoreTel's
growing community of channel partners and customers.
"ShoreTel and Enterasys have proven themselves in our operations," said Bob
Glaze, Chief Technology Officer for the City of Oakland, California. "We
have found them to be one of the best and simplest choices to use for
unified communications."
Security is among the top concerns of enterprises deploying voice over IP
(VoIP) systems today. Enterprises need to detect unauthorized use of VoIP
systems, prevent service disruptions and eavesdropping, and monitor for new
threats against the voice infrastructure -- all while ensuring reliability
and quality of service. Rather than approaching VoIP security in a
haphazard fashion, Enterasys recommends an intelligent, automated and
integrated approach to enable and secure wired and wireless VoIP
communications.
"As we celebrate our 25th anniversary in the networking industry, we're
proud to be a ShoreTel Certified Technology Partner," said Mike Fabiaschi,
Enterasys President & CEO. "Enterasys has developed a comprehensive
approach to discover, classify, prioritize and secure the industry-leading
unified communications solutions from ShoreTel."
"With Enterasys, our customers will now have a tightly integrated security
solution," said Mark Arman, ShoreTel VP of Business Development.
"Networking and security are clearly converging to proactively protect
unified voice, video and data communications."
Enterprises worldwide want to ensure the same reliability, quality,
manageability, mobility and security of the traditional PBX with VoIP and
unified communications solutions. The Enterasys Secure Open Convergence
solution delivers a way to sense and automatically respond to security
threats against the IP telephony infrastructure, enforce network access
control policies, and comply with regulations for monitoring and safety
such as CALEA and E911 in the United States.
Enterasys offers the ability to centrally manage a set of communication
policy rules which can restrict the type and amount of network traffic
directed at specific voice-related servers. Also, policy rules can be
enforced to ensure that critical services are not "spoofed" causing service
disruption or theft of critical communications. In addition to proactive
security of VoIP resources, events occurring on the network that can
compromise the voice service can be detected, and ultimately mitigated in
order to preserve voice availability. Advanced Enterasys Dragon? security
applications have the ability to detect specific threats against the voice
infrastructure by using a strong set of VoIP attack signatures that include
decoders for H.323, H.245, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Media
Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). Once threats against voice services are
detected, NetSight? automated security management can be used to locate
the exact source of the threat and take appropriate action to resolve the
issue.
The Enterasys Matrix? and SecureStack(TM) switches are network switching
and routing devices which can automatically discover, classify and
prioritize ShoreTel unified communications systems and traffic. Embedded
security, priority and bandwidth control is provided for every user, device
and application without sacrificing performance. The Enterasys
standards-based open architecture interoperates with the existing
infrastructure so enterprises can leverage the advantages of ShoreTel
solutions while assuring reliability, service quality, manageability,
mobility and security.
ShoreTel enables companies of any size to seamlessly integrate all
communications -- voice, data, messaging -- with their business processes.
Independent of device or location, ShoreTel's distributed software
architecture eliminates the traditional costs, complexity and reliability
issues typically associated with other solutions.
About Enterasys
Enterasys is owned by a private investor group led by The Gores Group, LLC
and Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC. Enterasys delivers Secure
Networks(TM) that ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability
of IT services and the business users that rely on them -- without
sacrificing performance. Thousands of enterprises, government agencies and
educational institutions in more than 70 countries worldwide rely on our
convergence, connectivity and compliance solutions to deliver
business-oriented, policy-based visibility and control of individual user
and application priority and security. The company's culture is centered
on the principle, "There is nothing more important than our customers."
Enterasys' standards-based, open-architecture approach to network security
offers a long technology lifecycle and significant operational and business
benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership. Information about
Enterasys' award winning, policy-enabled switches, routers, wireless
products, security software and services is available at www.enterasys.com.
About The Gores Group
Founded in 1987, The Gores Group, LLC is a private equity firm focused on
acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can
benefit from the firm's operating experience and flexible capital base. The
firm combines the operational expertise and detailed due diligence
capabilities of a strategic buyer with the seasoned M&A team of a
traditional financial buyer. The Gores Group, LLC has become a leading
investor having demonstrated over time a reliable track record of creating
substantial value in its portfolio companies alongside management. The
firm's current private equity fund has committed equity capital of $1.3
billion. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, The Gores Group, LLC
maintains offices in Boulder, Colorado and London. For more information,
please visit www.gores.com.
About Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC
Tennenbaum Capital Partners is a Santa Monica, California-based private
investment firm managing over $7.5 billion in committed capital in private
funds. The firm's investment strategy is grounded in a long-term, value
approach, and it assists -- both financially and operationally --
transitional middle market companies in such industries as technology,
healthcare, energy, aerospace, business services, retail and general
manufacturing. Tennenbaum's core strengths include in-depth knowledge of
equity and debt financing vehicles in the public and private markets, as
well as a thorough understanding of special situations. For more
information, please visit www.tennenbaumcapital.com.
Contact:
Trent Waterhouse
Enterasys Networks
+1 978 684 1506trent@enterasys.com
Jackie Abramian
BridgeView Marketing
+1 617 584 2580jackie@bridgeviewmarketing.com
Copyright ? 2008 Market Wire, Incorporated
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