Network Diagramming Channel Feature
Colt Enhances Network Performance with High-Speed In-flight Encryption Service
October 03, 2011
By Rajani Baburajan
TMCnet Contributor
Colt, a provider of integrated computing and network services, announced the expansion of its managed security services portfolio with the introduction of fully integrated in-flight encryption capabilities for its High Speed Services.
The service enables customers to achieve far greater levels of security when transmitting sensitive business critical data between sites without losing network performance, according to company officials.
The protocol-agnostic in-flight encryption is especially beneficial to customers in sectors where regulatory compliance and protection of intellectual property are critical to the success of their business. The new capability provides them with a more secure service that meets the multiple regulations that institutions must comply with when transmitting large volumes of data across networks.
“Transporting intellectual property securely between sites is key for many of our enterprise customers,” said Mike Hollands, director Solution & Segment Marketing, Enterprise Services, Colt, in a statement. “A comprehensive security strategy providing secure business applications, networking and communications allows organizations to mitigate the risk of a breach that damages customer confidence and leads to serious and expensive legal ramifications. ”
In addition to helping companies comply with regulations, High Speed Services delivers the network performance, latency and bandwidth required in today’s competitive environment.
High Speed Service is built using the sophisticated technologies from network specialist Ciena, which delivers market-leading optical transport technologies and powerful, standards-based encryption functionality to ensure security and protection without slowing down network performance, according to company officials.
Colt will deploy the solution across its regional managed metro networks in 14 major European markets.
“The unique encryption capabilities offered by Ciena gives service providers such as Colt the opportunity to take early share in the growing security-orientated networking market and quickly establish competitive advantage in key verticals that require significant data transfer requirements, such as finance, media or legal,” said Peter Newcombe, vice president of sales, Northern and Eastern Europe at Ciena, in a statement.
“Between Ciena’s sophisticated technology and Colt’s vast European footprint of wholly owned, high-performance networks, we can offer the highest levels of security whilst also helping to reduce the amount of protocol-specific encryption needed in a customer’s network thus lowering their operating costs,” Newcombe added.
In other industry news, network diagramming provider OPNET Technologies (News - Alert) is certainly sitting pretty in its current location as the company has recently been positioned by Gartner (News - Alert) Inc., in the “Leaders” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.
The report, which was published on Sept. 19, and written by Will Cappelli and Jonah Kowall, evaluated 29 vendors. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at a specific time period and depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner, according to Gartner.
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by Carrie Schmelkin
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