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ZyXEL Embeds Mailshell
Engine into ZyWALL Unified Threat Management (UTM) to
Provide Complete and Transparent Spam and Phishing Protection
SANTA CLARA, CA, Sept. 19, 2005 - Mailshell,
the leading OEM provider of anti-spammer and anti-phisher
engines, announced today that ZyXEL Communications (TSE:2391),
the world's leading broadband access solutions provider
and the world's largest DSL router provider, has integrated
Mailshell's SpamCompiler technology into its new 8-in-1
ZyWALL unified threat management (UTM). Mailshell's
SpamCompiler SDK Lite is the first low-memory anti-spammer
and anti-phisher engine and helps ZyWALL UTM offer accurate
and reliable spam filtering. More than 6,000 companies
and 10 million consumers already rely on 'Powered by
Mailshell' products.
By integrating Mailshell's SpamCompiler
engine, the 8-in-1 ZyWALL UTM optimizes, compiles and
executes more than one million filter checks in a fraction
of a second to determine if a message is spam or not.
By combining a fast, compact, flexible, complete decision
tree with an automatically self-tuning intelligent engine
that is updated up to every five minutes, Mailshell's
engine consistently generates highly accurate results
in recognizing spam, phishing and other forms of email
fraud.
"Spam has become one of the most challenging
issues faced by today's IT staffs, as these mails bring
down network resources and employee productivity," said
Kerming Chen, VP of SMB & Consumer Business Unit at
ZyXEL. "Mailshell's solutions are accurate, scalable,
and easy to integrate into our ZyWALL UTM products,
helping businesses to maximize their bandwidth resources
and employee productivity."
"Through our scale, experience and focus
as an anti-spam technology provider, we can provide
our partners a high quality, feature-rich solution at
competitive cost and with a short time-to-market," said
Tonny Yu, CEO of Mailshell. "Partners can embed anti-spam
into their products to generate new incremental subscription-based
revenue and to compete with hosted spam filtering services."
"Our SDK combines increased flexibility,
speed, and transparency compared to managed spam services,"
added Yu. "Since customers don't need to make changes
to their domain records or other essential details of
email flow the SDK is also easier to setup and ensures
that sensitive email never leaves the customer's servers
or gets routed to a third party."
About Mailshell SpamCompiler SDK:
The SDK Lite boasts the same award-winning accuracy
as the flagship Mailshell SDK. The primary differences
between the two are memory size and speed. The SpamCompiler
SDK Lite requires only 32KB of code on the device, and
can be embedded into any product including mobile devices,
wireless access points, desktop routers, firewalls,
modems, and other low memory devices.. Mailshell's flagship
SDK is available in a range of operating systems including
Linux, Windows, Solaris (Sparc and Intel), FreeBSD,
HP-UX, AIX and Mac OS X.
About ZyXEL Communications: ZyXEL
Communications Corp. (TSE: 2391), located in Hsinchu,
Taiwan, is the world's largest DSL router provider (Gartner,
August 2005). ZyXEL's broad line of Internet Protocol-based
(IP) networking solutions includes access multiplexors,
customer premise equipment, Internet security and Wireless
LAN equipment, enabling high-performance network services
for SOHO, small to mid-sized businesses and service
providers. ZyXEL works closely with worldwide network
equipment vendors, telecommunications companies, ISPs,
and other major businesses. For more information, visit
the company's Website at http://www.zyxel.com.
About Mailshell Inc.: Mailshell's
software helps its OEM partners, including Computer
Associates, Oracle Corporation, CyberGuard, Panda Software,
ZyXEL, Broderbund and Lyris Technologies, among others,
generate new anti-spam revenue, upsell existing products
to new anti-spam customers, and cut anti-spam engineering
and support costs to near zero. Companies can integrate
the Mailshell Engine into their existing product or
application using Mailshell's development toolkit, the
Mailshell Anti-Spam SDK.
Mailshell is the leading licensor of spam
filtering software to OEMs and has more OEM partners
with revenues in excess of $50 million than any other
company in the world. It is the first and only spam
engine in the world with SpamCompiler Technology, which
can process more than a million filter checks in a fraction
of a second. Mailshell's SpamCompiler developers hold
nearly 30 patents in database modeling and design, and
are leading experts in using Artificial Intelligence
technology to compile high-level languages into optimized
code. Via Mailshell's OEM partners, more than 6,000
companies and 10 million consumers worldwide rely on
SpamCompiler software to block spam. Mailshell was founded
in 1999 and enjoys a100% renewal rate among its OEM
customers. For more information: http://www.mailshell.com.
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Contact:
Stefan Pollack, The Pollack PR Marketing Group,
(310) 556-4443, spollack@ppmgcorp.com
