Open Service Bus Provides Third Party Vendors with Access to the WedgeOS Platform

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wedge Networks, an innovator providing remediation-based Deep Content Inspection for high-performance, network-based Web security, today announced the immediate availability of the Open Service Bus (OSB) to third-party vendors. OSB is an architecture that allows vendors to install its services onto the WedgeOS platform; taking advantage of Deep Content Inspection technologies that will make its solutions: easier to deploy, infinitely scalable and more accurate.

Through the assimilation of these technologies, organizations can benefit from easily running its products on top of the underlying WedgeOS architecture. Using the OSB, vendors are now able to deploy its own Software Development Kits (SDKs) onto the network layer through the award-winning WedgeOS platform, immediately gaining full visibility into network content. This provides third- party developers with the ability to understand and to manipulate content in real time, regardless of device, platform or OS, while deploying into any network; including high bandwidth and large-scale networks.

Integrating with the WedgeOS platform through OSB provides software vendors an easy way to expand its solutions to new markets and verticals. With the WedgeOS Deep Content Inspection platform, these vendors' services can fully access network content without experiencing traditional network deployment difficulties such as: scalable performance, protocol complexity and topology transparency.

WedgeOS platform's OSB benefits include:

• Full visibility into network content - improving third-party vendors' ability to manipulate and understand content in real time regardless of device, platform or OS
• Network transparency - instantly allowing solutions to be deployed into any network, including complex, high bandwidth networks found in service providers and ISPs
• Zero footprint on existing network topologies
• Unified content inspection services - that can be enabled across all application protocols from a single platform
• Immediate access to the latest releases - keeping services up-to-date on the newest features and upgrades to the WedgeOS platform, allowing third-party vendors to focus on its solution
• ISP level performance and reliability
• A range of deployment options - including appliance or virtualized delivery models

Supporting Quote:

Hongwen Zhang, president and CEO, Wedge Networks, said: "With the rapidly changing market and proliferation of advanced services by third-party vendors, organizations are looking to incorporate new innovative methods to analyze, digest and extract intelligence from content on the network.  Wedge Networks' Open Service Bus provides a mechanism for such vendors to integrate their SDKs on to the WedgeOS platform, providing immediate access to advanced inspection technologies that will allow them to deploy its services into large networks and new markets."

Supporting Resources:

For more information on moving your solution to the network please visit www.wedgenetworks.com/partners/wedgeos-partner-program.html

About Wedge Networks

Wedge Networks is an innovator providing remediation-based Deep Content Inspection for high-performance, network-based Web security. It provides a scalable, real-time solution that understands the intent of Data-in-Motion, enabling the detection and remediation of both known and novel threats without impacting network performance. Its BeSecure appliances are easily integrated into existing environments. Wedge Networks provides its global customers, partners and distributors a dramatically safer and innovative way to do business. For more information, visit http://www.wedgenetworks.com.

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