Ingate Launches New Software For All Ingate Firewalls And SIParators

New features include failover functionality, improved VPN with PPTP support and AES, and full compatibility with Windows® Messenger

VON London, June 10, 2003 - Swedish Ingate Systems AB (www.ingate.com), the leading supplier of SIP-capable enterprise firewalls, today announces the launch of Ingate Firewall 3.2.0 and Ingate SIParator® 3.2.0, new software versions for all of Ingate's Firewall and SIParator® products. The software boasts new and improved features such as failover functionality, improved virtual private network (VPN) functionality with support for PPTP, added NAT traversal and support for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

Ingate Firewall® 3.2.0 and Ingate SIParator® 3.2.0 also support SIP media over TCP. The result is full compatibility with Windows® Messenger, including white-boarding, application sharing and file transfer capabilities.

Ingate produces and sells the world's first SIP-capable enterprise firewalls. Ingate also manufactures and sells SIParators, devices that connect to an existing network firewall to seamlessly enable the traversal of SIP communications.

"Ingate's security technology has a long history of proven, cutting-edge firewall products. Ingate Firewall® 3.2.0 and Ingate SIParator® 3.2.0 continue that tradition of innovation by offering our clients the confidence of failover protection as well as increased VPN capabilities," said Olle Westerberg, CEO of Ingate Systems AB. "The only fully SIP-capable enterprise products on the market, Ingate Firewalls and SIParators offer enterprises the best value and the ability to adopt SIP-based, real-time communications."

Increased Security with Failover Protection

Ingate's Version 3.2.0 software now supports failover in all of Ingate's Firewall and SIParator® products. This means that two Ingate Firewalls (or two Ingate SIParators) can now be connected in parallel. If one should fail, the second firewall or SIParator® will take over, providing the system with double the firewall protection for the ultimate in security. The new software allows SIP registrations to survive any failover occurrence.

In addition, dynamic session management can now be used for UDP, not only TCP.

New VPN functionality

Support for PPTP has been added to the VPN module. Customers will also benefit from added NAT traversal (support for VPN clients behind non-VPN-aware NATs, using the NAT-T specification). There is increased support for clients only using a subset of the remote tunneled network as well.

Also new with Version 3.2.0 is support for AES in IPSec. In addition, Road Warriors can now perform IKE key negotiations even if they are blacklisted.

Version 3.2.0 provides increased flexibility in verifying digital certificates. Instead of uploading a certificate for every VPN client, customers now have the option to upload a trusted CA certificate instead. All VPN clients that can present a certificate signed by that CA certificate can connect. The new software allows users to require specific clients to incorporate a certain Distinguished Name (DN) in their certificate. A CRL file can be uploaded in case a certificate is compromised.

Availability

Ingate Firewall® 3.2.0 and Ingate SIParator® 3.2.0 will be available from the middle of June. Ingate's customers may install this upgrade at no charge by visiting the Ingate Website at www.ingate.com/upgrades.php. The security administrator can configure the firewall to automatically detect future software updates available on the Internet.

Ingate Firewalls and Ingate SIParator® are delivered with a user manual on a CD-ROM.

For more information, please contact:

Hélène Rönnmark, Marketing Director, Ingate Systems AB
+46 - 8 - 600 77 56
helene@ingate.com

Hillary Call, HDC PR
(917) 414-9262
hcall@mindspring.com

About Ingate Systems

A world leader in next generation firewall technology, Ingate Systems (www.ingate.com) produces and sells the world's first SIP-capable enterprise firewalls and the SIParator®, a device that connects to an existing network firewall to seamlessly enable the traversal of SIP communications and winner of Internet Telephony magazine's Product of the Year Award. Ingate Systems has a long history of developing secure communications technology and today offers enterprises unprecedented value and ability to develop SIP-based, person-to-person realtime communications. Ingate's security products currently protect the networks of retail companies, financial institutions, industrial firms, government agencies and small-to-large enterprises throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Majority-owned by Intertex Data AB and BellNet Corp, Ingate Systems AB is located in Stockholm and Linköping, Sweden. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ingate Systems Inc., is located in Hollis, New Hampshire. For more information on Ingate Systems, visit www.ingate.com.