TEL AVIV, Israel, and FONTENAY-AUX-ROSES, France -- RAD Data Communications, the leading international manufacturer of intelligent access devices, and Ipanema Technologies, the leader in application traffic management systems for wide-area networks (WANs), have announced plans to co-develop a joint system for enhancing added value services in Layer 3 and Layer 2 VPNs while laying the foundation for future business services. This cooperative solution will be based on RAD's intelligent customer premises equipment (CPEs) and Ipanema's Autonomic Networking System (incorporating advanced application-awareness capabilities).

The joint product offering will pave the way for service providers to extend existing WAN optimization services to more IP VPN enterprise sites, as well as assure end-to-end application performance guarantees over increasingly popular Ethernet VPNs. The integration of these two best-of-breed components into a unified platform is also expected to deliver significant OpEx reduction gains for service providers.

"Building on RAD and Ipanema's respective market leadership, the R&D and commercial partnership will make end-to-end network control and optimization as well as Quality of Experience guarantees an affordable reality for deployment at all of the enterprise VPN's customer sites," explains Dr. Daniel Kofman, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at RAD Data Communications. "Service providers will not only be able to roll out higher-margin, added value services for both IP and Ethernet services, but will also benefit from better management of their network resources," he adds. "Moreover, this unique solution will help usher in a new era of business process-centric (instead of network-centric) business-aware VPN services, which are 'technology agnostic,' sparing end users from the network complexity and technological diversity of L3 and L2 network connectivity".

RAD Data Communications Ltd.

Ipanema Technologies