TippingPoint Announces UnityOne

AUSTIN, Texas -- TippingPoint Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPT1), the leader in intrusion prevention, today announced an initiative which will enable European service providers to deliver more secure Internet connectivity to residential and commercial subscribers as well as protect internal IT assets. TippingPoint’s UnityOne is a specialized platform with purpose-built hardware capable of delivering gigabit throughput, low latency and carrier-class scalability with a level of protection described by The NSS Group test labs as “impeccable, with 100 percent of all attacks being detected and blocked under all load conditions."

“UnityOne has proven to be a superior solution for service providers by delivering comprehensive security and bandwidth management in a unified platform,” said Jim Johnson, Vice President and General Manager of TippingPoint’s service provider business unit. “We have seen a great deal of demand from service providers in the US, and have made a strategic decision to expand our efforts and aggressively pursue the European market.”

In a separate release:

TippingPoint Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPTI), the leader in intrusion prevention, is launching a major pan-European expansion this year in response to customer demands amid a global focus on improving IT security. Recent surveys rate security as the number one priority in IT spending, and indicate Europe’s increasing vulnerability to misuse and abuse of data networks and the business applications that operate on them. TippingPoint opened its first European office in Amsterdam in the last five months and opened offices in Stuttgart, Germany last month. The UK and the Nordic region are next in line with offices opening this month.

A recent IDC forecast indicated worldwide spending on security and ensuring business continuity would grow twice as fast as IT spending, reaching $116 billion by 2007. Furthermore, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Information Security Breaches Survey 2004, more than two thirds of UK companies have suffered a malicious attack in the past year.

“Increasingly, businesses are dependent on interconnected data networks. European service providers and enterprises understand that the health of the business is predicated on the health of those networks,” says TippingPoint’s Chief Executive Officer Kip McClanahan. “TippingPoint’s focus on keeping networks secure and healthy despite more frequent and sophisticated malicious attacks makes our decision to expand into the European market a timely one.”

In a separate release:

TippingPoint Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPT1), the leader in intrusion prevention, today announced the availability of the UnityOne-50 which will enable remote branch offices and smaller enterprises to benefit from the most advanced on-line intrusion prevention capabilities. The release of the UnityOne-50 builds on recent news of TippingPoint’s European expansion plans.

The 50–megabit UnityOne-50 is the latest addition to the TippingPoint product line, bringing the cost of best-of-breed intrusion prevention below $10,000. The UnityOne-50 enables branch-office protection for larger enterprises and targets the market for smaller offices wanting a level of protection recently described by The NSS Group test labs as “impeccable, with 100 percent of all attacks being detected and blocked under all load conditions.”

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