Quarry locks up Korean contract

Quarry Technologies announced today that South Korea’s Dacom Corp. is deploying its iQ Security Service Routers. Dacom will deploy the routers as part of an expansion of its virtual private networks services that will include new security services.

The equipment is being deployed in two phases this year with phase one already started, according to Ian Mashiter, president and CEO of Quarry.

“We expect that there will be more network builds following that,” he said. Using Quarry iQ8000 Security Service routers around the edge of its backbone network, Dacom will launch a secured service, dubbed “MVP Secure,” that will extend its MPLS-based VPN to include intrusion detection, stateful firewall filtering, traffic policing, Denial of Service prevention, Network Address Translation, virtual routing, VPN tunneling, encryption and traffic shaping. The routers will terminate access network connections, identify subscribers and classify traffic flows. On the management side, the routers allow for security and traffic management processes to be applied at both the ingress and egress of Dacom’s network.

“What’s driving the need to supply security services is that Koreans are very sensitive to their security needs because they have such a high penetration rate of broadband,” Mashiter said, noting that with increased penetration rates there comes higher potential for mischief. “I think this is the first MPLS VPN network that has offered this.”