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FaceTime Offers Patented Application Detection Technology(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) FaceTime Communications, a provider of solutions that manage Web 2.0 and unified communications in the enterprise, announced its patented application inspection and classification technology is now available for license to network security equipment manufacturers. Dubbed ACE, for Application Control Engine, the perimeter-based application filter identifies and categorizes more than 1,400 Web 2.0 applications and more than 50,000 additional application "widgets" distributed via social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut. Backed by FaceTime Security Labs' exclusive application analysis and categorization, ACE automatically updates its database to stay current with new application detections. At its core, ACE is the technology that sets FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG) appliance apart from all other network security appliances. The USG enables enterprises to control real-time communications integrating management, security and compliance of Web communications, consumer-driven applications such as public IM, Skype and P2P and enterprise-class unified communications suites such as Microsoft's Office Communications Server and IBM Lotus Sametime. "The widespread adoption of email was a key driver for the anti-virus scanning industry, and the Web browser led to a standard requirement for URL filtering databases," said Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing for FaceTime Communications. "In the same way, the current explosion of real-time and Web 2.0 applications is prompting a need for application filtering to examine, classify and control the evasive applications that are running over corporate networks today." ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News |