Glimmerglass Networks and IPS/RESI Group Partner to Provide End-to-End Cyber Security Solutions

Integration of leading technologies delivers comprehensive cyber security and lawful interception solutions for law enforcement and intelligence agencies

HAYWARD, Calif. - Tuesday, April 26th 2011 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Glimmerglass Networks, the leading supplier of intelligent optical signal management solutions, and IPS/RESI Group, Italian Cyber Security industry leader, today announced a technology partnership. The combined technologies from both companies’ product lines provide an end-to-end architecture for intelligent optical signal access, monitoring and traffic analysis. The partnership will deliver turnkey Cyber Security solutions with the most flexibility and scalability available in the market, encompassing multiple signal formats, protocols and data rates up to 100 Gb/s.

“Our partnership with IPS/RESI uniquely complements Glimmerglass Networks and strengthens our ability to provide end-to-end, comprehensive Cyber Security platforms for our intelligence agency, lawful interception and telecommunications service provider customer base,” said Robert Lundy, CEO of Glimmerglass Networks. “IPS/RESI’s advanced monitoring platform and probes will assist our customers to meet the complex and ever growing requirements for effectively accessing and monitoring communications to deliver actionable intelligence.”

“We are pleased to be working with Glimmerglass Networks to enrich our architecture with their deep expertise and intelligent optical signal management technology,” said Marco Braccioli, Senior Vice President of IPS/RESI Group. “Glimmerglass’ high scalability and ability to instantly and remotely access thousands of signals enables us to more efficiently combat Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism.”

Glimmerglass Networks Intelligent Optical Systems integrate powerful software with cutting-edge hardware to provide unmatched performance, flexibility, and scalability for enabling Cyber Security and lawful interception on optical networks. Organizations use Glimmerglass to selectively access and monitor communications, distribute optical signals to one or many locations or devices, and centrally manage the process in real time. Glimmerglass optical systems provide comprehensive visibility and control of optical signals, handle any data format and any protocol, ensure quality of data with zero packet loss and protect investments as data rates grow from 10Gb/s to 40Gb/s to 100Gb/s.

The IPS/RESI GENESI™ Network Interception and Monitoring Platform represents a solution characterized by high modularity and scalability in order to provide a flexible and complete lawful interception platform to law enforcement and government agencies. The solution is designed to provide an effective architecture to acquire, analyze, record and process huge quantities of communication data streams in a centralized manner. The system architecture is composed of several logical components, which are responsible for specific data management (provisioning, acquisition, recording, processing, playback and intelligence analysis). The platform fulfills the ETSI model recommendations, and it is suitable to monitor and intercept the most common protocols over different technologies including 2G/3G/4G mobile networks, landline and Internet.

About Glimmerglass Networks

Glimmerglass Networks is the leading supplier of intelligent optical signal management solutions. Customers worldwide use Glimmerglass advanced software and purely optical, photonic systems to rapidly and remotely access, distribute and monitor optical signals and create and reconfigure optical paths in real time. Glimmerglass systems are deployed in networks for intelligence and defense agencies, communications service providers, lawful interception, enterprises and cloud computing. Using Glimmerglass systems customers dramatically reduce capital and operational expenditures, increase responsiveness, and improve productivity while increasing network availability and performance. For further information, please visit www.glimmerglass.com.

About RESI Group

Based in Rome, Italy, RESI was established in 1987 as a software house for the development of telecommunication network management systems and is now a privately owned group that designs and manufactures products and solutions for the most diversified applications in Network and Security Management, VAS, Electronic Surveillance, Communication Security, ICT Risk Assessment for both domestic and international markets (EMEA, APAC, LATAM and US regions). www.resi-group.com

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