Information Technology

BOONTON, N.J. -- The US public Ethernet services market is expected to grow from $940 million in 2006 to over $5 billion in 2012, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. With metro-area Ethernet services now available from virtually all major data service providers and wide-area Ethernet about to get a shot in the arm from the dominant carriers, the market is poised to take off.

FREMONT, Calif. -- TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded networking and security software solutions for wired and wireless applications, expanded its sales presence in Korea, Taiwan and India by signing agreements with leading resellers in these markets.

RESTON, Va. -- nPulse Networks LLC, a leading integrator of hardware acceleration tools for open-source network monitoring and security applications, and Napatech Inc, the world's leading vendor of high-performance, programmable Ethernet network adapters, today announced they are entering into an OEM agreement enabling nPulse Networks to use Napatech adapters in delivering their advanced network appliances to the market.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- AZO Technologies, Inc., today announced the release of VisiWave(TM) Site Survey 1.6, the latest version of its very successful wireless site survey product. With this release, GPS is now supported as a new method for keeping track of the surveyor's location while conducting a site survey. Using a Global Positioning System (GPS) device, the surveyor can track his or her movements while outdoors to automatically create maps of the area's 802.11a/b/g wireless coverage.

FREMONT, Calif. -- TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded security, today announced that V-IPSecure - its high-performance implementation of IPsec and IKE protocols for IPv4 and IPv6 - successfully passed all the Virtual Private Network Consortium's (VPNC) interoperability tests for IPsec VPN systems. This certification continues the company's long-standing commitment to provide the embedded market with lean and robust security software complying with stringent industry standards.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- YMCA Canada East, representing 14 YMCAs throughout eastern Canada and serving more than 120,000 members, has selected The Active Network, Inc., a company that delivers software technology and marketing solutions to community service organizations, as its operations management software provider.

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- BROADSOFT CONNECTIONS 2006 - Atreus Systems(TM), the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IMS and advanced IP service bundles, today announced that PCCW Global has launched Atreus' IP Service Provisioning Platform to activate a full range of IP Centrex applications for their reseller channels located in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, and the EMEA region.

PUNE, India -- A startup, Infinishare Technologies (www.infinishare.net), has introduced "Web-Plus," a novel technology that allows any PC with an Internet connection to function as a Web-server. Till now, only computers with "real" Internet (IP) addresses could function as Web-servers for Web-hosting. The new technology allows home computers or office computers behind firewalls, proxies, NAT routers, etc to Web-host irrespective of the type of Internet connection or network settings.

THORNWOOD, N.Y. and NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, U.K. -- IT Response launches a UK-wide online computer support service for home and business computer users. Striving to provide computer users with high quality online repair and affordable remote helpdesk services regardless of location, IT Response was looking for a long-term, reliable partner who would provide affordable technical assistance.

FREMONT, Calif -- TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded security, continues a long tradition of bringing enterprise-level security to embedded devices with today's release of its latest offering: SecureAire Supplicant, a complete, secure 802.11 supplicant software solution for wireless LAN (WLAN) client devices. It is one of the industry's first middleware products specifically designed from the ground-up to seamlessly offer secure WLAN access to traditionally wired devices such as medical equipment, printers, projectors, phone handsets and other networked embedded devices.