SafeNet Releases Carrier Grade QuickSec 5.0

SafeNet, Inc., a developer of information security solutions, now affiliated under common management with Aladdin Knowledge Systems, announced the general availability of QuickSec 5.0, a carrier grade IPsec toolkit that offers true multi-core support, integrated with Cavium Networks OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 processors.

QuickSec 5.0 is an IPsec and IKEv1/IKEv2 software toolkit that enables developers to integrate industrial-strength and standards-based security into high-bandwidth networking applications. QuickSec 5.0 is offered as a server toolkit for telecommunications and networking applications and as a client toolkit for mobile and remote networking devices.

Carriers are extremely demanding customers as a result of large established customer bases, the quality of service requirements imposed by corporate customers, experience dealing with the pain of service disruption and customer service issues, and market dynamics demanding a combination of rapid introduction of new services and careful cost management. QuickSec 5.0 has been designed with the needs of carrier applications like Femtocell, IMS, mobile TV, and VoIP in areas like:

- Performance - highly optimized software supporting the latest hardware, including Cavium OCTEON chips and multi-core processors.

- Interoperability - exhaustively tested through industry certifications such as ICSA, TAHI, and VPNC.

- Latest standards - for example, multiple authentication support within IKE as required by the latest Femtocell specifications.

- Code quality and documentation - well-tested source code that has passed thousands of test cases before release, as well as documentation, including one-thousand five hundred pages of reference manuals.

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