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 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.
Actiance is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more
information visit or call 888-349-3223.
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