Ingate Systems and Quick Eagle Networks Team To Provide Robust, End-To-End VPN Solution

New VPN Combo provides small and medium sized businesses and branch offices with a cost-efficient, fully featured VPN solution

Hollis, NH/Sunnyvale, CA - April 28, 2003 - Ingate Systems Inc. and Quick Eagle Networks announced today an alliance to bring together their respective, state-of-the-art products to provide an end-to-end VPN solution for small and medium sized businesses and branch offices. The Ingate/Quick Eagle VPN solution combines the Ingate Firewall™ 1200 with the Quick Eagle 4231 Access Router™ to provide a cost-efficient, fully featured VPN solution.

In addition to providing full firewall security, the Ingate Firewall™ 1200 is equipped with a VPN termination module that supports IPSec and PPTP protocols. With IPSec, the Ingate VPN module supports 3DES and AES encryption and MD5 and SHA-1 authentication. Utilizing Ingate’s unique VPN capabilities, businesses can create up to 50 VPN tunnels for a secure connection, which ensures future scalability and protects the initial investment. In addition, Ingate’s award-winning support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) provides everything the small and medium sized business and branch office needs to communicate (e.g. via instant messaging, audio/video conferencing, and Voice over IP) efficiently with customers and colleagues. To complete the offering, customers may choose to add the Ingate Quality of Service software module so that priorities can be set by traffic type to improve performance without additional network cost.

The Quick Eagle 4231 Access Router™ completes the VPN solution by using its virtually wire-speed performance to seamlessly connect branch offices over the Internet via fractional to full T1 links. The 4231 Access Router includes a CSU/DSU and the advanced intelligence features needed to accurately monitor network performance.

"We are pleased to be offering this combined solution with Ingate Systems," said Alan Rice, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Quick Eagle Networks. "The combination of the Ingate Firewall® technology with our cost effective router solution provides a terrific value for our customers. Offering a complete VPN solution with firewall and quality of service components is very exciting for Quick Eagle and Ingate’s support for SIP means that this solution will also support productivity benefits that real time communications can provide for our customers."

"This is an exciting alliance for Ingate Systems," said Steven Johnson, President of Ingate Systems Inc. "Our customers have been asking for a solution that provides them a complete solution from the WAN interface and the Quick Eagle router is an outstanding complement to our firewall. We are very excited about the possibilities that this offering provides for our customers."

The Ingate/Quick Eagle VPN Combo is attractively priced and is available through Interlink Communication Systems.

About Ingate Systems

Ingate Systems Inc. (www.ingate.com) produces and sells the world's first SIP-capable enterprise firewalls and SIParators, a device that connects to an existing network firewall to seamlessly enable the traversal of SIP communications. Ingate Systems has a long heritage of developing secure communications technology. Ingate Systems AB is located in Stockholm and Linköping, Sweden and its wholly owned subsidiary, Ingate Systems Inc., is located in Hollis, New Hampshire. For more information call Steven Johnson at 603-883-6569.

About Quick Eagle Networks

Quick Eagle Networks, Inc. is a provider of intelligent WAN access solutions for Frame Relay and IP networks, and the world leader in multilink access devices. The company’s fully software-configurable access products and network management solutions provide expanded functionality for reduced cost at the LAN/WAN interface.

Founded in 1985 and recognized worldwide for its Digital Link and Quick Eagle brand products, the company serves many of the world’s leading enterprises and carriers including Boeing, Wells Fargo, MCI/WorldCom, Sprint, British Telecom, Bell Canada, and France Telecom. Quick Eagle Networks is an ISO-9001 certified company, with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California and sales and distribution offices worldwide.

More information is available at www.quickeagle.com.

COMPANY CONTACT:

Alan Rice
Quick Eagle Networks
Sr. Vice President of Sales & Marketing
217 Humboldt Court
Sunnyvale, California 94089-1300
Tel: (408) 745-4509
alan_rice@quickeagle.com

MEDIA CONTACT:

Sara Azadi
e21corp
Public Relations
Tel: (510) 226-6780 x245
sara_azadi@e21corp.com

About Interlink Communication Systems

Interlink Communication Systems is a highly successful value-add distribution company, representing manufacturers of data communications and networking products to a nationwide network of value added resellers and network service providers. ICS has earned an enviable reputation with vendors and resellers alike for high-quality distribution services designed to help their customers succeed in the marketplace.

More information is available at www.interlinkweb.com.

To order, please contact Interlink Communication Systems at 800-638-8481.