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Mocana Secures Links Between Legacy Phone Switches and Central Offices for Advanced Relay
Mocana's NanoSSH(TM) Software Together With Advanced Relay's PXSe Gateways Extends the Useful Lifetime of Expensive Legacy Switches, Resulting in Big Savings for European Telecom Firms Like Swisscom
| Source: Mocana
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - October 26, 2009) - Advanced Relay and Mocana today announced
a technology partnership on a new line of secure telecommunications
gateways designed to extend the useful life of legacy phone switches based
on older networking standards, such as X.25. The pilot customer, Swisscom,
has fielded the new version of Advanced Relay's Protocol Exchange Server
(PXS).
It is used as secure FTAM/X.25-to-SFTP/TCP/IP gateway on more than 140
Siemens EWSD and Ericsson AXE switches at Swisscom's FixNet.
Swisscom was adamant in requiring secure SFTP (also known as SSH)
connections between Advanced Relay's PXS product and any data collector, to
mitigate the possibilities of data tampering or eavesdropping on customer
transactions. After analyzing several options, Advanced Relay selected
Mocana's NanoSSH client (http://www.mocana.com/nanossh.html) because of
Mocana's extremely small footprint, high performance, support for embedded
platforms portability and full source code access.
NanoSSH is Mocana's super-fast, super-small SSH client/server solution with
support for X509.v3 Certificate based authentication and comes with RADIUS
client, specifically designed to speed product development while providing
best-in-class device security services for resource-constrained
environments. NanoSSH provides a holistic approach for securing networked
devices and services, and is ideally suited for resource-constrained
devices as well as high-traffic enterprise and federal environments where
performance is critical. NanoSSH is open-standards-based, extensible,
extremely small footprint, platform-agnostic and features an optional
government-certified FIPS 140-2 level-1-validated crypto core and NSA Suite
B cryptography. Developers can request a free trial of the NanoSSH software
at http://www.mocana.com/evaluate.html.
The flexibility and modularity of the NanoSSH software (and access to the
source code) allowed Advanced Relay to quickly port the NanoSSH client to
the PXS eCos RTOS and to make customer-specific modifications in the
client/server authorization scheme. The integrated product has worked
flawlessly for over a year now.
"Mocana's support during the evaluation and porting was exceptional. We
highly appreciate their professionalism, support and cooperation throughout
all phases of the project, including our customization. This allowed us to
get the solution up and running quickly, and securely. Mocana's
well-documented and compact software made our lives a lot easier," said
Ulrich Richers, Director of Technical Marketing for Advanced Relay. "By
terminating the FTAM/X.25 right at the switch and providing secure
connections, Swisscom's CDR-File collection is much simpler and more secure
today. The new installation requires far less maintenance, resulting in
large cost savings, too."
Interested technologists can download a more detailed case study at
http://www.advancedrelay.com/downloads/fixnetapplication.pdf
In addition to Advanced Relay, over 100 major OEM companies including
Motorola, Cisco, Intel, General Electric, Honeywell and Siemens rely on
Mocana software to guarantee device integrity for their products in the
consumer, medical, industrial, IT and military markets. NanoSSH is part of
the new 5.1 release of Mocana's Device Security Framework, the industry's most
comprehensive suite of embedded security solutions for non-PC devices.
NanoSSH is available now. Embedded device developers can request free trial
of the NanoSSH source code at http://mocana.com/nanossh.html.
About Advanced Relay Corporation
Founded in 1982 Advanced Relay developed LayGO, a multiprotocol (X.25,
LAPB, LAPD, BSC) toolkit targeted at integrators of WAN communication
systems. Today ARC develops and markets products and solutions, such as the
PXS, to
exchange synchronous interfaces (RS-232/422, V.35) for Ethernet and
synchronous protocols, such as X.25, LAPB, LAPD, RDIF, HDLC or BSC for
TCP/IP. Higher layer file transfer protocols for telecom phone switches,
such as FTAM, AFT, XFER or AMATPS are replaced with FTP or SFTP.
The company's primary markets are companies who need to incorporate legacy
equipment into their IP networks: Telecom, Aviation, Transportation,
Banking and Defense. In addition, Advanced Relay provides consulting
services, such as software porting, customization and certification, to
facilitate the integration of Advanced Relay's products into a customer's
systems.
About Mocana
Mocana secures the "Internet of Things" -- the 20 billion datacom,
smartgrid, federal, consumer, industrial and medical devices that connect
across every sector of our economy. These devices already outnumber
workstations and servers on the Internet by at least five to one,
representing a $900 billion market that's growing twice as fast as the PC
market. Every day, millions of people use products sold by over 100
companies that leverage Mocana's Device Integrity software, including Dell,
Cisco, Honeywell, General Electric, General Dynamics, Avaya, Nortel
Networks, Harris and Radvision, among others. Mocana won Frost & Sullivan's
Technology Innovation of the Year award for 2008 for Device Security, and
was named to the Red Herring Global 100 as one of the "top 100
privately-held technology companies in the world" in January 2009.