FOSTER CITY, Calif., Mar. 22, 2004 - Furthering
its leadership as the premier provider of solutions that secure,
manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and other forms of
real-time communications in the enterprise, FaceTime Communications
today announced the immediate availability of RT
MonitorTM, a free utility tool that detects all
real-time communications activity within and across corporate
networks. With RT Monitor, IT administrators receive a detailed
report that enables them to know exactly how much IM, P2P and VoIP
are being used throughout their enterprises so potential security
and compliance risks can be properly assessed. "IT organizations
today need an easy-to-use, instantaneous way to identify the extent
of IM, P2P and VoIP use throughout the enterprise that may affect
their corporate networks," said Rahul Abhyankar, director of
Product Management at FaceTime Communications. "RT Monitor makes it
extremely easy to obtain this critical insight, which is not
available otherwise." Real-time communications in the enterprise is
growing at an unprecedented rate. Benefits such as increased
productivity and cost savings make IM invaluable to the enterprise,
but unauthorized and unmanaged real-time communications can put any
organization at significant risk. The FaceTime RT Monitor helps
expose potential risks by enabling organizations to instantly
discover IM, P2P and VoIP activity, including those that may
circumvent a network solution. FaceTime RT Monitor provides
detailed reporting on the number of connection attempts, number of
messages and file transfers, bandwidth consumed and ports used by
these popular applications so IT can get a clearer picture of
existing usage and plan for effective best practices, management,
security and risk mitigation. The FaceTime RT Monitor provides
usage statistics on the following networks: · AIM/ICQ
· MSN Messenger
· Yahoo!
· FastTrack (KaZaA)
· Gnutella
· MFTP
· Skype The tool is FREE, easy to download and install and
available on the FaceTime website at www.facetime.com.
About Actiance
Actiance helps organizations manage, secure and ensure compliance
across unified communications, collaboration and Web 2.0
applications such as blogs, wikis and social networks. Actiance's
award-winning platforms are used by 9 of the top 10 US banks and
284 FINRA regulated firms globally.
The Actiance platform allows organizations to gain visibility of
applications in use, apply usage and content policies, ensure
compliance and gain valuable insights across the communications and
collaboration channels. Actiance supports all leading social
networks, unified communications and collaboration providers and IM
platforms, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Yahoo!,
AOL, Skype, Cisco, Microsoft, Jive, and IBM.
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