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Critical Links Partners with NextHop for VoFi
Critical Links to Integrate NextHop
Wireless LAN Controller Software With Its
VoIP edgeBOX Product Line
SOUTHAMPTON, England, and
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — January 23, 2007 — Critical
Links, an international networking technology company,
and NextHop Technologies® Inc., a leading
provider of WiFi control and management software,
announced a sales, marketing and joint development
partnership for integrating their industry leading
products into a single, turnkey solution.
Critical Links will integrate NextHop's wireless
LAN (local area network) controller software
into their VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) business
gateway software platform delivering a single turnkey
VoFi (Voice over WiFi) offering for business gateway
solutions in enterprise and carrier markets. This integration
will provide integrated, production-ready software
allowing networking equipment OEMs in the business
gateway market to decrease development risk and reduce
time-to-market.
The edgeBOX software platform from Critical Links
is an all-in-one, remotely manageable networking device
that incorporates all the latest in-demand technologies
such as VoIP, IP-PBX, VPNs (virtual private networks),
security and QoS (quality of service). It also provides
network access control, has an integrated router and
ADSL (asynchronous digital supplier line) modem, and
can be used as a web server, email server and storage
device. The integration of NextHop's industry-leading
WiFi control and management software and the edgeBOX
creates a comprehensive, easy-to-mange business gateway
solution for enterprise and carrier markets.
"This combination is especially important since
both VoIP and WiFi are showing rapid growth in the
enterprise and carriers markets," said Peter
Tyndale, vice president of business development at
Critical Links. "Setting up a network requires increasingly
complex configuration for VoIP-over-WiFi
with access point roaming for wireless handsets being
a big issue. NextHop's innovative wireless controller
software offers quick deployment of wireless LAN infrastructure
coupled with scalable, reliable coverage for VoFi voice
clients."
"We are very happy to be working with Critical
Links to create leading edge VoFi solutions based on
best-of-breed VoIP and WiFi technologies," said
PG Menon, vice president of marketing at NextHop. "There
is a growing demand in the enterprise and carrier market
for simple, out-of-the-box, yet reliable, solutions
to support VoFi clients. We believe we are unique in
providing the necessary simplicity, reliability and
scalability required to support large numbers of roaming
VoFi clients."
About Critical Links
Critical Links (www.critical-links.com) is an international
networking software company and provider of edgeBOX,
a converged multi-function device or business gateway
targeted at SMBs and Enterprise Branch Offices. EdgeBOX
is available in a wide range of scalable hardware
platforms, including standard servers, and has the
best feature to price ratio in the market, making
it the ideal choice for cost savvy SMBs. edgeBOX
typically replaces 4-7 single-function devices required
to deliver an equivalent set of services, fully remotely
managed, with significantly lower TCO. Telecom Service
Providers and Managed Services Providers offer edgeBOX
as a service to their SMB customers.
Critical Links is a wholly owned subsidiary of Critical
Software SA, established in 1998, with over 100 employees,
with a presence in the UK, USA, and Portugal. The company
is CMMI Level 3 compliant and has a reputation for
producing mission and business critical networking
and telecoms solutions for the telecoms, public sector,
industry, aerospace and defense markets, with customers
such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Infineon Technologies,
NASA, and EADS.
About NextHop Technologies
NextHop Technologies is a leading provider of WiFi
mobility solutions and networking protocol software
for the wired and wireless communications market.
Fulfilling the needs of the fast growing mobile communications
market, NextHop's hardware-agnostic, production-ready
software solutions are more reliable, easier to use
and more scalable than any other solution. By providing
turnkey software solutions on merchant silicon and
off-the-shelf hardware, NextHop offers the unique
combination of quick time-to-market and comprehensive
networking functionality for mobile enterprise and
carrier equipment manufacturers. NextHop reaches
these customers through a direct sales channel and
is based in Mountain View, California. For further
information, please visit www.nexthop.com.
NextHop Technologies and GateD
are registered trademarks and NextHop is a trademark
of NextHop Technologies Inc. All other third party
marks mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
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