Press Release

AFORE Announces Ethernet Compression and Encryption Technology for WiMAX, LTE and Broadband Networks

Solution Targets Networking Platforms and COTS/ATCA Based Systems

Source: AFORE Solutions
11/19/2008

AFORE Announces Ethernet Compression and Encryption Technology for
WiMAX, LTE and Broadband Networks

Solution Targets Networking Platforms and COTS/ATCA Based Systems

Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA – November 19, 2008— AFORE Solutions, Inc., a leader in the design and delivery of technology solutions for the networking industry, today unveiled its EtherPACK™ lossless data compression and EtherSECURE™ encryption technologies as part of its Accelerated Secure Ethernet suite of solutions. AFORE is partnering with networking equipment vendors to embed its advanced technology solutions into mobile base stations, microwave backhaul systems, broadband access devices and networking gateways.

“While Ethernet has become the technology of choice for service provider networks, the access and metro backhaul networks are still capacity constrained,” said Jonathan Reeves AFORE’s Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer. “EtherPACK enables service providers to dramatically increase the capacity of their backhaul networks while EtherSECURE ensures sensitive customer data is fully protected.”

EtherPACK employs dedicated hardware engines to provide high throughput and very low latency measured in microseconds. EtherPACK enables any network protocol and application to be compressed while meeting network latency budgets and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Compression ratios up to, and exceeding, 10:1 have been achieved in live network deployments.

EtherSECURE provides hardware-based, low latency AES-256 encryption which can secure all traffic types at wirespeed on multiple gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The encryption process provides a high degree of flexibility supporting IP, Metro Ethernet & legacy wide area networks.

AFORE’s EtherPACK and EtherSECURE technologies improve the performance and security of Ethernet wide area networks while providing the low latency and protocol transparency required by sensitive traffic such as packetized voice and pseudowire applications. These capabilities are ideally suited to optimizing and securing 3G, WiMAX, LTE and DSLAM/GPON backhaul networks.

About AFORE Solutions:
AFORE is a leading provider of innovative technology to the networking industry. Our unique blend of custom development, InterPort™ technology, and system solutions enables network equipment providers and Enterprises to accelerate innovation and deployment of advanced networking applications. AFORE - Acceleration FOR Ethernet™ For more information visit: www.aforesolutions.com.

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