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- Lois Paul & Partners for Mocana Greg Funaro, 781-782-5896 greg_funaro@lpp.com or Skycastle Media for Zhone Tracy Oliver, 510-665-7984 tracy@skycastlemedia.com Mocana, a software company delivering comprehensive device security solutions, today announced that Zhone Technologies (NASDAQ: ZHNE) a global leader in multi-service access equipment for VoIP, IPTV and Ethernet will use Mocana's NanoSSL and NanoSSH embedded security
solutions to secure Zhone's MALC product line. The tight integration of Mocana's ultra-optimized NanoSSL and NanoSSH packages will ensure the integrity and confidentiality of the information traversing these access lines, without compromising the performance or throughput of Zhone's best-in-class devices.
Zhone's product portfolio meets the diverse needs of service providers, scaling from very small to very large deployments and features the company's multi-access line concentrator (MALC) multi-service access platform (MSAP) family. The company's MALC products are optimized for delivering voice, data, and high-definition video services over a pure packet access network. The MALC enables service providers to deploy a wide variety of business and residential services in a single platform, from legacy interfaces such as POTS or ISDN to new network architectures based on GPON and Active Ethernet. Using Mocana, Zhone assures its customers that information services delivered over the MALC product line remain uninterrupted, secure and ultra-fast.
"Maintaining strong security throughout their networks is of utmost importance to our customers," said Eric Presworsky, chief technology officer of Zhone. "Incorporating Mocana's security technology into our platforms allows us to assure our customers of complete, trusted control over access to the management layer of their network, which would otherwise represent a potential vulnerability."
Since access equipment, such as Zhone's MSAP products, is the managed network element closest to the end customer, they are also at the greatest risk for attacks. As a result, service providers are looking for ways to tighten security on these platforms. Mocana's patented Device Security Framework components, including NanoSSL and NanoSSH, helped Zhone further differentiate their MALC family by meeting these requirements with minimal impact on system resources. NanoSSL provides endpoint authentication and protection against eavesdropping, message forgery and interference - all in an ultra-compact, super-efficient package purpose built for high-performance device environments. Mocana's best in-class performance NanoSSH provides secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network while only using a micro-footprint of memory.
"Our device security products are designed specifically to secure network devices and endpoints without impacting application performance or network throughput," said Adrian Turner, CEO of Mocana. "They're also designed to accelerate product development cycles, dramatically reducing development costs. Zhone's selection of Mocana's NanoSSL and NanoSSH technologies for securing Zhone's product line demonstrates the breadth of our products' capabilities as well as their ease-of-use."
Developers can learn more about these products at
mocana.com/NanoSSL.html or
mocana.com/NanoSSH.html
About Zhone Technologies - Access for a Converging World
Zhone Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZHNE) is a global leader in multi-service access network solutions, serving more than 700 of the world's most innovative network operators. The company offers the industry's broadest fully-integrated portfolio of MSAP, FTTx, EFM and Wi-Fi access technologies, enabling a full suite of services, including residential and business broadband, VoIP, and High-Definition IPTV. Zhone's converged multi-service access platform helps operators rapidly deploy premium services using copper, fiber, and wireless while improving network agility and reducing costs. www.zhone.com
About Mocana
Mocana provides device management solutions and embedded security tools for consumer electronics manufacturers, datacom companies, telecom carriers, industrial automation applications and the enterprise. Mocana's industry-leading infrastructure software solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, networks and their services all scale securely. The company sells a portfolio of 18 product offerings and claims more than 90 major customers, including Cisco, Freescale, Philips, Dell, Nortel Networks, Harris and Honeywell among others. Mocana was founded in 2002, is privately held, and headquartered in San Francisco. The company was recently named one of Red Herring's "Top 100 Privately-Held Companies in North America" for 2008 and also won Frost & Sullivan's Technology Innovation of the Year award. To request a free full source code and documentation evaluation of Mocana's security solutions, visit www.mocana.com/evaluate.html
Tight Integration of Mocana's Super-Fast NanoSSL, NanoSSH Packages
Accelerates Zhone's time-to-market, Assures Integrity and Security for
Multi-Service Access Network Solution
