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Erlang Technology Introduces PCI-Based Wire-Speed Multi-Gigabit Content Inspection Blade Hardware

Power Search Blade™ (PSB™) Empowers Development and Deployment of Emerging Applications Such as Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention and Content Inspection for Security in Carrier, ISP and Data Center Environments

ST. LOUIS - August 16, 2004 - Erlang Technology, Inc., a premier supplier of data networking components, today announced the availability of their first product to make up their content search product line. This first product is the Power Search Blade (PSB), a standard Peripheral Component Interface (PCI) form factor blade that can be inserted into servers, PCs, switches, and routers to provide hardware assisted content searching and inspection. It is ideal for emerging and mission critical applications such as detection and prevention of virus and worm attacks. PSB also provides protection from denial of service (DoS) and port scanning attacks with its dedicated protection engine.

Erlang's PSB currently supports two Gigabit Ethernet ports simultaneously against predefined signatures and traffic patterns. The company confirms that several customers are in various deployment stages of PSB and many more are in the evaluation stage. While most of the initial customers are in the security industry, the company expects PSB applications to expand into content switching, packet-based billing, URL filtering, web switching, firewall, IP SECurity (IPSEC), and Secure Socket Layer (SSL)-based systems, which makes the PSB an essential product in growing market segments. In addition to the US, Erlang is targeting Japanese and Chinese-based carrier/service and security solution providers with PSB.

PSB is compatible with Windows and Linux operating systems, allowing a seamless integration of third-party software. Being PCI standard compliant, PSB can be plugged into any PCI-based equipment such as security appliances, networking equipment, PCs, and servers, and transforms them into high performance, highly differentiable, value-added products with a minimal development effort. PSB's complete set of support software, well-defined user interface, and standard compliant hardware allows users to significantly reduce the time for integration and application development. PSB comes with comprehensive software interfaces, named PSB Manager™ and PSB API™, for management and integration with third-party software. Via PSB Manager, users are notified of the status of on-going security attacks, signatures matched, and they can also update signatures, and set attack thresholds, all in real time. .....<article continues>

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