IP Fabrics CALEA System Selected by EasyStreet Online Services

 

DeepSweep™ for CALEA system provides "safe harbor" to meet FCC requirements 

Beaverton, OR – July 26, 2007 - IP Fabrics, Inc. announced today that EasyStreet Online Services of Beaverton, OR has selected IP Fabrics’ DeepSweep for CALEA system to provide CALEA compliance, meeting the FCC deadline of May14, 2007. DeepSweep was chosen over several other solutions due to the system’s openness and extensibility combined with full compliance with the ATIS T1.IAS specification, which offers safe harbor.

The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) was originally enacted in 1994, but was recently extended to include Broadband Internet Access Services and VoIP Services in order to assist law enforcement agencies to execute authorized surveillance of digital communications. Services providers can comply with CALEA in various ways, including purchasing complaint solutions from vendors and are offered safe harbor if the solution adheres to industry standards, such as T1.IAS.

“We are proud that EasyStreet Online has met the CALEA compliance deadline,” stated Rich Bader, President/CEO of Easystreet. “It is important to us that we are able to balance the requirements of CALEA while ensuring our customers’ privacy and have ‘safe harbor’ with the FCC.”

The IP Fabrics DeepSweep™ for CALEA is the first self-contained network surveillance system that provides ISPs with Broadband and VoIP CALEA compliance. Ideal for small and medium-sized ISP and VoIP networks, a single DeepSweep system functions as the complete CALEA compliance solution, providing the probe, mediation/delivery, and administration functions, which are commonly implemented as separate devices.

“We are pleased that we were able to leverage the product for our network analysis needs, and the assistance provided with the proprietary aspects of the system for the purposes of establishing intercept guidelines has been invaluable.  DeepSweep compliance with the T1.IAS and T1.678v2 specs ensures we will be able to provide the authorities with critical intercept data as well as have ‘safe harbor’ with the FCC,” said Jon Crowhurst, Director of Technical Services for EasyStreet.  “The advanced packet filtering functions offered by the DeepSweep provide us with the ability to gather useful and highly granular data for engineering purposes from high-speed links in a cost-effective manner, enabling us to use the DeepSweep for a number of purposes in addition to ensuring CALEA compliance."

About IP Fabrics

IP Fabrics, founded in 2002 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, is venture fundedby Northwest Venture Associates, Intel Capital, Frazier Technology Ventures, and Ignition Partners. The company serves customers in various segments including service providers, networking equipment makers and government agencies.

About EasyStreet Online Services

EasyStreet Online Services is Oregon's largest independent Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Managed Services Provider (MSP). Its multi-million-dollar Data Center and team of professionals provide reliable, responsive services and ensure outstanding performance and scalability for more than 2,300 Northwest businesses. Services include a variety of high-speed Internet access services (up to GigE), web site and managed application hosting, colocation, monitoring, storage services and hosted Microsoft Exchange for Outlook. Founded in 1995, EasyStreet is locally owned and managed with a team of nearly 40 employees. The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Ore. For additional information, call (503) 646-8400 or visit www.easystreet.com.

Press Contact: For more information, please contact Kevin Graves, IP Fabrics’ Chief Technology Officer, phone: 503-444-2411, or email kevin.graves@ipfabrics.com.

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