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Press Release
FaceTime Partners with Edvance to Secure IM and P2P Communications in Asia
FaceTime Increases Leadership In Asia Pacific; Announces Immediate Availability of RTG500, The Industry's First Appliance For Secure IM and P2P
HONG KONG and FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - January 19, 2005 - FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, and Edvance Limited, the premier provider of secure Internet communications solutions in Asia, today announced a reseller partnership in which the Hong Kong-based integrated solutions vendor will resell the entire FaceTime product line including the immediate availability of FaceTime RTG500, an industry-first network appliance built for the ease of adoption and safe, secure use of IM and P2P in the enterprise, small and medium businesses, ISPs, government organizations, universities and schools. The announcement expands FaceTime's leadership position in the Asia Pacific region where customers' widespread use of IM and P2P has driven an increasing market demand for best-of-breed solutions.
"Illegal sharing of movies and music using P2P software such as BitTorrent has caused losses to the film and music industry which run into the millions of dollars. Those downloading these files on the corporate or university network exposes these organizations to possible copyright infringement. Furthermore, unauthorized IM usage in the workplace reduces employee productivity as reported in a recent study published by the Hong Kong Productivity Council.
"An effective solution is needed to allow organizations to control and secure IM and P2P activities on their network," said Ashley Lo, Technology Director of Edvance Limited. "We are very pleased to be partnering with FaceTime. FaceTime's industry leading technology helps to make IM more useful by eliminating rogue IM and P2P use in a very simplified way."
"IM and P2P communications have no territorial boundaries," said Kailash Ambwani, president and CEO of FaceTime Communications. "FaceTime is pleased to partner with Edvance to address the increasing need to securely manage IM and P2P usage globally throughout all types of organizations. With Edvance, FaceTime further expands its leadership in Asia Pacific with increased distribution from Hong Kong."
FaceTime's RTG500 is the industry's first appliance launched to effectively monitor and block IM and P2P traffic, decreasing the risk associated with virus spread, disclosure of confidential or inappropriate information and copyright infringement. RTG500 is a purpose-built, hardened network device that is easy to install, requires minimal IT administration resources and has no impact on network performance. Deployed in the DMZ, RTG500 is an enterprise security gateway that controls rogue IM and P2P filesharing usage and runs on a hardened Linux operating system. The appliance delivers complete, non-stop protection from unauthorized IM connections such as ICQ, MSN and Yahoo Messenger, while also eliminating common P2P file sharing connections such as BitTorrent, KaZaA, Grokster and WinMx. These applications decrease employee productivity, drain network performance, render organizations liable for copyright infringement and expose children to online exploitation.
With this announcement, Edvance will also make immediately available FaceTime's complete line of products including the award-winning
IMAuditor. FaceTime IMAuditor is the leading IM management solution that enables enterprises to control, manage and log IM activities.
IMAuditor protects organizations from viruses and IM Spam - SPIM - with its patent-pending challenge-response mechanism combined with sophisticated content filtering to effectively block SPIM (such as the "Osama Found" adware that affected AIM users).
IMAuditor does not require additional IT administration and integrates seamlessly with enterprise IM solutions such as Microsoft LCS 2005, Lotus Sametime, Reuters Messaging, Bloomberg and others.
FaceTime solutions offer a unique 'defence-in-depth' approach managing IM usage from both user and application behaviour.
About Edvance
Edvance Limited is one of Hong Kong's premier provider of Secure Internet Communications Solutions and Technology Consultancy Services in the region. Edvance's security solutions include Enterprise Email Security Solutions from Tumbleweed Communications and leading IM & P2P Security solutions from FaceTime Communications. In addition, Edvance is also a premier technology integrator for Microsoft solutions in the enterprise and is recognized as one of the top .NET solutions provider in Hong Kong.
For more information please visit http://www.edvance.com.hk.
About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant
messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number one by
IDC for four consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by
more than 900 customers – including nine of the 10 largest U.S. banks – for
security, management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime
supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and enterprise
IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM and Jabber.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE.
The FaceForward blog, at http://blog.facetime.com,
offers thoughts and opinions about the changing nature of Internet communications.
PR Contact:
Joshua Barnes
A&R Edelman
650-762-2865
joshua.barnes@ar-edelman.com
Wendy Wan/Sarah Lee
Cool Factory for Edvance
852-2851-7063/852-2851-7031
wendy.wan@coolfactory.com.hk/sarah.lee@coolfactory.com.hk
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