Radware Joins the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory VoIP Technology Consortium
MAHWAH, New Jersey, March 3 - Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that it has joined the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) VoIP Technology Consortium. As a member of this consortium, Radware will be able to test its VoIP and SIP-enabled products in terms of compliance, interoperability, and quality.
Radware's decision to adhere to the UNL-IOL's VoIP consortium is based on its observations of the carrier market. With the arrival of next generation convergence applications, the carrier market is offering new SIP-based services, creating new opportunities for users to collaborate and exchange information. Additionally, as the global use of SIP adoption increases in carrier access, applications and trunking, it creates a need for vendors and system integrators to provide carriers and operators with solutions supporting carrier-grade requirements. This imposes a great burden on application and system development not typically addressed in the product scope but left to be handled in the system integration phase. As a result, Radware is focusing its efforts on expanding its product offering to fulfill these needs.
"Joining the UNH-IOL's VoIP consortium is a great opportunity to test our VoIP and SIP-enabled solutions with the most cutting-edge products on the market," said Amir Peles, Chief Technology Officer, Radware. "This will enable us to work with the UNH-IOL, a well respected independent lab, to establish the viability and interoperability of our products in different eco-systems and thus, provide our customers with lab-proven high-performance, intelligent solutions."
"We are delighted that Radware has become part of our VoIP consortium, which counts among its members a number of key players in the telecommunications market," said Erica Johnson, Director of the UNH-IOL.
"Radware will have access to the extensive conformance and interoperability test services available to all of our members so as to validate their products."
Established in 1988, the UNH-IOL provides rigorous collaborative one-on-one standards-conformance and quality assurance testing as well as multi-vendor group tests (often referred to as "plugfests"). The laboratory's comprehensive, vendor-neutral testing is performed through independent focused interest groups called consortiums, composed of member companies that each pay an annual fee for product testing and add at least one piece of equipment to a shared reference test bed. Member companies often use the UNH-IOL's detailed, industry-trusted test reports to provide customers with uncompromised third-party product validation.
About Radware
Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for more than 5,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute(TM), Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of intelligent front-end, access, and security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart."
For more information, please visit www.radware.com.
About the UNH-IOL
Founded in 1988, the UNH-IOL is one of the networking industry's premier third-party proving grounds for developing technologies. Approximately 200 companies use the UNH-IOL's 32,000+ sq. foot facility to extend their development and quality assurance efforts by testing and fine-tuning technologies, protocols and products for multi-vendor interoperability and conformance to standards. For more information, visit www.iol.unh.edu.
Source: Radware Ltd
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