Broadview Networks Earns the Microsoft Security Solutions Competency

Broadview Networks adds the Microsoft Security Solutions Competency to our growing list of Microsoft Partner Program accomplishments – our 8th Microsoft Competency!

Broadview Networks Plans Customer Focused Seminars Through 2008

Broadview is planning customer focused seminars that will run throughout 2008, and we want to know what is of interest to you. Cast your vote, and tell us what you want to learn more about!

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Winnipeg, MB - January 25, 2008 - Broadview Networks announced that it has achieved another Microsoft Partner Program Competency - Security Solutions!

This competency award recognizes qualified Canadian Microsoft Partners who have developed identity and access management solutions based on Microsoft products and technologies. In order to qualify for this achievement, Broadview Networks staff first achieved technical certifications in Security Solutions, and then designed and implemented solutions based on skills and certifications in this area. Customer references close out the requirements for the competency designation and further qualify the Company's ability to deliver end-to-end security solutions.

Microsoft Competencies are designed to help differentiate a technology partner's capabilities with specific Microsoft-based technologies to customers looking for a particular type of solution. Each competency has a unique set of requirements and benefits, formulated to accurately represent the specific skills and services that technology partners bring to the industry.

Eighth Microsoft Competency!

The addition of the Security Solutions competency brings the company's Competency Program achievements to a total of eight (8), and the achievement places Broadview Networks near the top of the Microsoft rankings in the Partner Program. At the time of writing, only two other Canadian Partners have earned as many Microsoft Competencies. With more than 10,000 Canadian Microsoft Partner members, to be ranked in the top 5 partners is a clear message of Broadview Networks' capabilities related to designing and implementing Microsoft based solutions for customers of any size.

Broadview Networks specializes in advanced IT infrastructure as well as Microsoft CRM solutions for a wide range of clients in North America. The company is a Gold Certified Partner, and since June of 2007 has been a member of the Microsoft Gold Partner Excellence Program.

Broadview Networks holds competencies in:

• Advanced Infrastructure Solutions
• Networking Infrastructure Solutions
• Security Solutions
• Data Management Solutions
• Information Worker Productivity Solutions
• Licensing Solutions
•  Microsoft Business Solutions
• Mobility Solutions

"Our achievement of this new competency is just another example of our commitment to providing our customers with solutions that are built on proven, industry-standard technologies. The new Microsoft competency will enable us to deliver better solutions to our clients in the areas that matter to them, such as security and access rights," said Michael Orloff, President of Broadview Networks. "Our company has proven its commitment to Microsoft technologies and we are well-positioned to meet our customers' needs well into the future."

About Broadview Networks

Broadview Networks is one of Canada's leading advanced IT infrastructure companies. The company is recognized as one of the fastest growing businesses in Manitoba and is also acknowledged as one of the top Gold Certified Microsoft Partners in Canada. Broadview Networks has a distinct focus on simplifying complex technologies for clients across Canada, ranging from SMB, Mid-Market and SME organizations.

Broadview Networks will be holding a series of seminars throughout the year on topics most relevant to you. In order for these seminars to offer the most value, we want to know which topics are a priority for you. You may have questions pertaining to network issues you are experiencing; you may want to talk to hard to reach Vendor Engineers; or you may want to look at emerging technologies and product roadmaps to know what lies ahead. Broadview Networks has established close Vendor relationships and is well networked within the Vendor community across Canada. Let us do the legwork and bring the Subject Matter Experts to you. Broadview Networks will help you find the answers.

The next two seminars will be dealing with data storage and WAN optimization. Future seminars will include disaster recovery, security, VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), and product roadmaps. To cast your vote on topic priority or to request a specific topic, please send an email with your comments to solutions@broadviewnetworks.ca. To find out more information on the upcoming seminars call 984-9897 or email solutions@broadviewnetworks.ca.

We look forward to providing the information that is most helpful to you.

Given the importance of anytime, anywhere application access, IT departments are turning to wide-area data services to improve and accelerate application performance across the wide-area network (WAN). Using Wide-Area Data Services (WDS), companies can achieve LAN-like access to data and applications anywhere throughout the enterprise network. For Branch Offices and mobile workers, this opens the door to enabling real-time collaboration and communication solutions. Riverbed is the pioneer and market leader in WDS, and is the first comprehensive solution to the host of severe problems that plague enterprise applications operating across the WAN including:

• Poor application performance
• Insufficient, expensive or congested network bandwidth into remote offices
• Difficulties in IT consolidation
• Challenges with slow remote data backup and replication
• Increasing demands of the mobile workforce

Unlike point products that improve one part of the wide area performance problem - like data compression, QoS, or TCP optimization - WDS is a comprehensive solution to application performance problems. Riverbed's market-leading WDS solutions address all of the issues that affect application performance over the WAN, improving the throughput of applications enterprises rely on every day, including file sharing, email access, backup, SSL, document management systems, and ERP and CRM solutions.

Wide-area Data Services

WDS encompasses several different product categories. Whether an organization is seeking to make the most of its existing investment in WAN bandwidth by reducing traffic, or aims to accelerate the performance of its global applications by addressing latency and chatty protocols, the optimal solution addresses all aspects of the problem at once.

WDS is the superset of several existing categories:

• Application acceleration
• WAN optimization
• Wide area file services (WAFS)
• QoS and traffic shaping
• Web caching

Unlike these individual approaches that only address a single cause of poor application performance across the WAN, a complete WDS solution enables the benefits of all of these approaches within a single, unified architecture.

Using WDS, enterprises can improve application performance across the network typically by 5 to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times. At the same time, it is possible to simultaneously reduce WAN bandwidth utilization by 65 to 95%. These dramatic results allow businesses to take advantage of their networks and infrastructure, and utilize existing applications in ways that were not previously possible.

An Integrated Approach to Improving Application Performance

WDS solutions accelerate applications by taking an integrated approach to application performance across the WAN. While some approaches solely focus on network optimization, or just concentrate on acceleration for a specific application, WDS combines an application-independent foundation that improves the performance of all applications running over TCP, with an application-specific set of modules that address chatty application protocols. This combination enables WDS solutions to accelerate the applications that enterprises care the most about, and provides the ability to easily add more functionality over time. WDS products are architected to scale all the way from the largest data centers with clustered appliances down to software on a single user's laptop (or desktop).

For more details or information about Riverbed solutions, please contact Broadview Networks.

What is SSL?

Secure Sockets Layer, SSL, is the standard security technology for creating an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browser remain private and integral. SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers. In order to be able to generate an SSL link, a web server requires an SSL Certificate.

When you choose to activate SSL on your web server you will be prompted to complete a number of questions about the identity of your website (e.g. your website's URL) and your company (e.g. your company's name and location). Your web server then creates two cryptographic keys - a Private Key and a Public Key. The SSL Certification Authority will validate your details and issue an SSL Certificate.

Your web server will match your issued SSL Certificate to your Private Key. Your web server will then be able to establish an encrypted link between the website and your customer's web browser.

The SSL Secure Padlock

The complexities of the SSL protocol remain invisible to your customers. Instead their browsers provide them with a key indicator to let them know they are currently protected by an SSL encrypted session - the Padlock.

All SSL Certificates are issued to either companies or legally accountable individuals. Typically an SSL Certificate will contain your domain name, your company name, your address, your city, your state and your country. It will also contain the expiry date of the Certificate and details of the Certification Authority responsible for the issuance of the Certificate.

When a browser connects to a secure site (Https) it will retrieve the site's SSL Certificate and check that it has not expired, it has been issued by a Certification Authority the browser trusts, and that it is being used by the website for which it has been issued. If it fails on any one of these checks the browser will display a warning to the end user.

Broadview Media offers Quick SSL Certificates from GeoTrust

With GeoTrust QuickSSL web server certificates, you can start conducting secure online transactions with confidence, quickly and cost effectively. By activating the browser's "LOCK" icon, QuickSSL enables up to 256-bit encryption and assures online visitors that confidential information and transactions cannot be viewed, intercepted or altered. And because our authentication system is the most advanced in the industry, your customers and trading partners can be sure that GeoTrust certificates are only issued to fully authorized recipients.

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