The distributor dedicated exclusively to telecom and security specific products and solutions, TelecomAdvisors International S.A., formed a partnership with the provider of professional solutions for Internet traffic management and analysis, ipoque GmbH. Resellers and system integrators working together with TAI will then be enabled to offer ipoque products to effectively control applications such as P2P, IM, VoIP or Skype. Such applications are often undesired in a network due to their high bandwidth consumption and potential security problems. For ipoque arises a good possibility to serve this market together and consistently with TAI with the required technical know-how.

    Michael Herbst, Sales Director at ipoque, said: "For ipoque this partnership means the strategic expansion on a market with competitive prices." In addition, Andreas Wunderli, CEO of TelecomAdvisors International S.A., said: "TelecomAdvisors is proud to have ipoque GmbH as a new solution partner, representing its portfolio for the first time in Latin America and the Caribbean. We are convinced that this new partnership confirms the right selection of innovative and "state of the art" telecom support und security solutions. This marks an economies of scale aspect and an optimization of resources for our prime customers, Telecom Operators as well as public and private enterprises in a little while."

    The PRX product line brings a tool for good control of programs such as Instant Messaging (IM), P2P file sharing and VoIP, including Skype, for enterprises (small and medium-sized to large enterprises), ISPs, universities, etc. This product line for Internet traffic management and analysis comprises hardware traffic managers for Gigabit and Fast Ethernet. Besides the bandwidth management the whole network traffic can be seen and analyzed in real-time.

    The ipoque filter technology works in two principle modes. On one hand, it offers the opportunity of completely blocking applications such as IM, VoIP, Skype or P2P file sharing which are able to bypass legacy firewalls. On the other hand, ipoque Traffic Managers brings an intelligent user-based bandwidth control as well as an improved utilization of backbone networks by throttling P2P traffic automatically in situations of high network load. All products are enhanced continuously and adjusted to the current requirements as well as extended with various add-on modules.

    The first, TelecomAdvisors International S.A., was originally founded in 2001 in Asia. In 2005 the new headquarters was established in Panama City. The mission of TAI is to become a preferred supplier of Revenue Assurance, Service Assurance as well as Security Enterprise Management solutions throughout the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, but also in other regions like Spain and Portugal. The second, ipoque, has been founded in Leipzig, Germany, in the beginning of 2005. The company specializes in professional solutions for application- and user-aware traffic management and analysis. Its line of hardware traffic managers for Gigabit and Fast Ethernet allows an effective control of undesired network applications. These include file sharing in peer-to-peer networks (P2P), instant messaging (IM) and Voice over IP (VoIP) including the popular Skype.