Vendors Tackle EU Directive

LONDON -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), Intec Telecom Systems (LSE: ITL.L) and SenSage, Inc. have pooled resources to provide a comprehensive, cost effective solution to answer the mandates of the EU Data Retention Directive. The combined technologies tackle two issues. First, it provides telecommunication and Internet service providers with a lower cost means to manage communication records that support compliance with the Directive. Second, it enables law enforcement agencies to quickly access historical phone and Internet records to pinpoint and prosecute terrorist activity and other serious crime. The Directive states that all service providers must be compliant by August, 2007.

The EU Data Retention Directive was announced in March 2006. It requires telecommunications operators (Telcos) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to securely retain and be able to analyse traffic and location data related to; fixed telephony; mobile telephony; Internet access; Internet e-mail; and Internet telephony for up to two years. The Directive further requires that all service providers must produce answers to law enforcement inquiries without any undue delay. Millions of calls and connections occur each day equating to billions of records and terabytes of transaction data that must be securely stored and rapidly analysed.

EMC, Intec and SenSage have developed a joint EU Data Retention solution that significantly reduces the cost of compliant data management for service providers. The combined technology completely supports the guidelines set out by the Directive and is able to cost-effectively manage and obtain results in minutes from over 100 billion Call Detail Records (CDR).

"The EU Data Retention Directive puts tremendous pressure and a clear timeline on Telcos and ISPS to meet security and investigation obligations,” said Fernando Elizalde, senior telecommunications analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "The newly developed technology offered by EMC, Intec and SenSage supports the Directive mandates by providing a progressive, scalable platform, to cost-effectively manage the broad event data integration, storage and analysis requisites.”

“Telcos and ISPs will have to make significant changes to procedure, operations and current technologies if they are to meet the EU Data Retention and Privacy Directives," said Terje Tondel, managing director of ETIS.org - the largest global IT association for telecommunication providers. "Our constituents have been advised to assess current resources and seek innovative solutions, such as that from EMC, Intec and SenSage, which can minimise costs and expedite results that address these guidelines”.

EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)

Intec Telecom Systems plc (London: ITL)

SenSage Inc.