Adtran Launches Security Appliances

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- ADTRAN(R), Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of unified business and converged communication solutions, today announced the NetVanta(R) 2000 Series of Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions. ADTRAN's UTM product family enables end-user customers to combine high-performance, feature-rich internetworking solutions with Unified Threat Management to create a best-of-breed solution from, and supported by, a single vendor.

ADTRAN solutions offer a wealth of benefits including:

-- Real-time gateway protection against the latest viruses, spyware, intrusions, software vulnerabilities and other malicious code -- Uncompromising performance applying real-time scanning over state-of-the-art high-speed architecture -- Application intelligence and control to identify, categorize and control applications on the network -- Helps in building a compliance solution around PCI, HIPAA, or SOX with secure infrastructure, strong access control, and comprehensive tracking and monitoring -- Automated and gateway-enforced desktop anti-virus compliance protection verifies the latest anti-virus software -- Multiple failover features to ensure uptime and resiliency in business operations -- Complete bandwidth utilization while receiving the benefits of a completely secure solution -- A single vendor solution allows customers to have one point of contact for secure internetworking and network security -- Limited lifetime warranty and 12 months of Continuous Threat Protection with each appliance

"As businesses are required to comply with an increasing number of security threats that exist in the application layer and as applications push to the cloud, the NetVanta 2000 Series of UTM solutions meets the changing needs of our customers," said Todd Lattanzi, senior product manager, ADTRAN Enterprise Networks Division. "These platforms offer industry-leading full UTM performance, while providing the ability to identify and control applications on the network. This expansion of our product portfolio will now allow end-user customers to have a single vendor to provide secure internetworking and best-of-breed UTM solutions for SMEs."

Adtran Inc. (Nasdaq: ADTN)