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Weekly UpdatesY3K Secure Enterprise Software, Inc., (OTC/BB: YTHK), a leading provider of Secure Communication and Enterprise Software Systems and Solutions, has announced the signing of an agreement between its joint operating partner, Fox Communications, and Acme Packet to deploy Acme Packet's Net- Net(TM) session border controllers in their SIP-based voice over IP (VoIP) network. As Y3K prepares for the addition of VoIP to their unified communications package, they will use the Net-Net products to expand the reach of their network across the United States, thereby increasing traffic volume and revenue.
"The Acme Packet session border controllers are an essential element in the development and expansion of our next-generation voice platform," said Jon Schnelz, Technical Director of Fox Communications. "We are building upon our strong reputation for high-quality, innovative products and services at affordable prices. With Acme Packet's session border controllers in our network, we continue with our planned growth from a regional to a national voice provider. Fox is projecting that the expansion of the next-generation voice network will double our revenue in the first year, with continued revenue growth over subsequent years."
"This relationship with Acme Packet is an important piece in our ability to provide innovative and secure unified communication solutions to a national base of customers," stated King Cole, president of Y3K. "Due to our Joint Agreement with Fox, Y3K will receive 50% of the projected revenues from the sales of the next-generation voice network."
Thanks to the multiprotocol support with interworking functionality in the Acme Packet session border controllers, Fox will be able to peer with other, previously incompatible SIP or H.323-based networks to maximize service reach and extend the addressable market for its services. Through this contract, Y3K and Fox will be able to offer a combination of voice, video and multimedia services with total confidence that the availability, quality and security will rival that of the PSTN service that its customers currently enjoy. The NAT traversal, topology hiding, admission control, DoS protection and high availability features of the Net-Net products are all critical to creating this confidence.
About Acme Packet
Acme Packet enables network service providers to deliver premium, interactive communications - voice, video and multimedia sessions - across IP network borders. Our award-winning Net-Net family of session border controllers satisfy critical security, service assurance and law enforcement requirements in wireline, wireless and cable networks. Established in August 2000 by networking industry veterans, Acme Packet is a privately held company headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.
For more information, call 781/756-6800, or visit http://www.acmepacket.com.
About Fox Communications (http://www.foxinternet.com)
Fox Communications, located in Kirkland, Washington offers personalized communication plans and exceptional customer service for long distance, Internet connections, conference calling. For the past 16 years, Fox has provided thousands of residential and business customers with competitive rates while exceeding customer expectations. Customers are their top priority, and their success is built on the value they deliver. Fox offers all of the premium services that a business would expect with a conferencing plan, including toll-free access, operator-assisted calls and many more features, usually at half price or lower than that charged by the major carriers.
About Y3K Secure Enterprise Software (http://www.ythk.com)
Founded in 1999, Y3K, Inc. initially started as a provider of Secure Internet commerce software. Through its experience with both businesses and consumers, Y3K has successfully made the transition to become a leading provider of secure enterprise software. Y3K's main product is the FusionPak Suite, which includes ICS (the most secure instant messaging (IM) system on the market today), CommerceManager (a state-of-the-art Internet commerce engine), Market Portal, a sophisticated business data management tool and other enterprise business software applications.
Source: Y3K Secure Enterprise Software, Inc. CONTACT: Y3K Secure Enterprise Software, Inc., Jennifer Stephens, (253) 284-2935, Jennifer.stephens@ythk.com >TX ARESCOM/BOINGO SIGN WI-FI INTERNET NETWORK PACT >TX ARESCOM INC. and Boingo Wireless, Inc., have signed an agreement to integrate the Wi-Fi High Speed Internet access in guestrooms and public spaces at nearly 200 hotels in the ARESCOM Hospitality Network (AHN) into the rapidly growing Boingo(TM) Roaming System.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, Boingo is the largest Wi-Fi network aggregator and is building a network to meet the needs of business travelers. Fremont-based ARESCOM is one of hospitality's largest and fastest-growing providers of wireless High Speed Internet Access (HSIA) in guestrooms (25,000+ installed and another 20,000 rooms in the pipeline). Also included in ARESCOM's solutions line-up is Cinemagic(TM) Video on Demand (VoD), another revenue-share service that gives guests access to hundreds of DVD-quality classic and new film releases -- with pause, rewind and fast-forward capabilities -- via guestroom TVs and laptops.
"Wi-Fi access in guestrooms and public spaces is quickly evolving from an appreciated upscale amenity for business travelers to a must-have standard feature for hotels of all sizes and types today," said Colby Goff, Boingo vice president of network strategy. "Our partnership with the ARESCOM Hospitality Network enables both of our companies to stay ahead of hospitality's demand curve while significantly expanding our Wi-Fi footprint."
The agreement extends access to AHN networks to Boingo's Platform Services partners, those Internet, voice and data service providers who wholesale the Boingo Roaming System for their Wi-Fi services. The Boingo Platform Services program offers private-label Wi-Fi software and roaming services to major carriers and ISPs. Boingo's current partners include EarthLink, Fiberlink, Infonet Services Corp., MCI and T-Mobile for client software.
Dave Egan, ARESCOM vice president of marketing, said the partnership is a rare win-win -- benefiting the two partners, hundreds of hotels and their guests, subscribers to the Boingo Roaming System and strategic telecom partners.
"ARESCOM and Boingo each focus on broadband services for business travelers, including secure wireless High Speed Internet Access," Egan said. "Once integration of the ARESCOM Hospitality Network into the Boingo Wi-Fi roaming service is complete, our hotel partners will have captured yet another business- and brand-building service to offer their guests, and Boingo customers will have more choices than ever before regarding where they can access Wi-Fi service.
"This agreement with Boingo represents one of several completed and planned roaming partnerships that will provide corporations, business and leisure travelers with our secure, plug-and-play wireless High Speed Internet access," Egan said.
About Boingo Wireless
Boingo Wireless, Inc. is an ultra-high-speed wireless Internet service available in thousands of locations such as hotels, airports, cafes, and other public places. Both directly and through major ISP and carrier partners, Boingo provides business travelers with a wireless broadband Internet connection to improve productivity while on the road. Through its Wi-Fi software, Boingo makes finding and connecting to Wi-Fi networks point-and-click simple and secure. EarthLink founder and chairman Sky Dayton founded Boingo in 2001 and serves as its CEO.
For more information, visit http://www.boingo.com.
About ARESCOM INC.
Founded in the Silicon Valley in 1996, ARESCOM designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of broadband access solutions, ranging from the most sophisticated turnkey wired and wireless High Speed Internet Access solutions for the booming worldwide hospitality market, to state-of-the-art DSL and wireless solutions for homes and small businesses. ARESCOM's DSL broadband access equipment is widely deployed by hundreds of hotels, as well as major telecommunication carriers, REITs, ISPs and SOHOs throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe. Because ARESCOM alone designs and manufactures its own HSIA equipment and installs and supports it 24/7/365 for hotel owner/operators, the company is fast becoming hospitality's HSIA supplier of choice. The ARESCOM Hospitality Network (AHN) is on pace with its goal to deploy ARESCOM's proven plug-and-play wired and secure wireless HSIA -- as well as its Wireless Digital Gateway(TM) and CineMagic(TM) Video-on-Demand solutions showing DVD-quality movies on laptops and TV sets with pause, rewind and fast-forward capabilities -- in 1,000 hotels across the nation by the close of 2005.
For more information, visit http://www.arescom.com or call 510/445-3638, Ext. 101.
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