Burlington, MA, May 18, 2004 - Quarry Technologies®, the performance leading supplier of carrier-class security service routers, announced today that Dacom, Korea's second largest communications provider, has launched its new integrated security management network based on Quarry's iQ8000® Security Service Routers. The Cyber Attack Defense Network (CADNet) provides a comprehensive suite of Virtual Private Network (VPN) security services that detect and prevent network threats such as worms, viruses, denial of service attacks, and intrusions in real time. Dacom deployed Quarry security service routers at points-of-presence throughout Korea to provide the new services to its business customers across the country, all managed from a central location.
"We believe this is the first such suite of network security services of its kind to be offered in the world, and Quarry is at the heart of it," said Yik-goo Jeong, leader of the network solutions business team, Dacom. "With Quarry, we were able to create a comprehensive security offering for VPN customers with guaranteed quality of service. As a result, CADNet provides businesses with full-featured, responsive network security, and saves them the expense of continuously upgrading equipment in reaction to constantly changing threats."
Quarry's iQ8000 Security Service Routers are integrated into Dacom's Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, extending security to the network edge and enabling Dacom to provide security services to its VPN customers. The Quarry platform provides an advanced Internet gateway with features that include Network Address Translation (NAT), virtual routing, firewall, intrusion detection and IPsec services such as 3DES encryption, all of which can be run while maintaining wire speed performance, thus maintaining guaranteed quality of service. And, because of Quarry's high-performance, virtualized routing capabilities, thousands of subscriber VPNs can be managed through a single Quarry iQ8000.
Quarry enables Dacom to deliver, manage and bill for VPN security services on a per-subscriber basis. As a result, each business customer can tailor their security services based on each individual user's needs, enabling different classes of users (i.e. remote or corporate-based) to receive, and pay for, only the security services they require.
"We are proud to be playing such an important role in Dacom's CADNet launch," said Ian Mashiter, president and CEO of Quarry Technologies. "Dacom is at the leading edge of providing next-generation VPN services. Working with them has enabled us to break new ground in providing network-based security services that not only provide iron-clad protection for Dacom's customers, but also enable new revenue-generating service offerings."
About the iQ-series Security Service Routers and Service Management Suite
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 provider's 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 Dacom
Listed on the Korean Stock Exchange, Dacom Corporation is controlled by the LG Group, one of the largest multi-business companies in Korea. Dacom provides international and domestic long-distance telephony, Internet, and data communication services in South Korea, and is the second largest fixed-line carrier in the country. Dacom also provides network and data communication services. It owns KIDC, the leading Internet Data Centre (IDC) services in South Korea, and also has a significant interest in the Powercomm cable network. http://www.dacom.net/e_site
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 world's 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.
Quarry Technologies is a trademark and iQ4000, iQ8000 and iQSMS are registered trademarks of Quarry Technologies, Inc.
