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Enterasys Completes Certification for ShoreTel Technology Partner Program
Delivers a Comprehensive Approach to Prioritize and Secure Unified Communications Solutions from ShoreTel
Barry Cioe
Enterasys Networks
+1 978 684 1525
Andover, MA — Feb 11, 2008
Enterasys Networks Inc., the Secure Networks Company™, 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™ 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™ 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.
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