Industry Association relies on Critical Links edgeBOX to provide Wireless Communications to Hundreds of Communications Congress Participants

Lisbon, Portugal, 27th November 2006 – Critical Links, an international networking technology company, has partnered with APDC – a portuguese communications industry not-for-profit association, to provide the communications industry main event with reliable, secure, wireless communications.

At the event, edgeBOX, an innovative device providing an unique set of complete converged voice, data networking and security services, managed the fixed network connection, the “Access Points” network in the Congress, and hundreds of user accounts. The solution’s levels of security, quality, and its ease of implementation, were demonstrated days before the Congress and widely confirmed during the three-day event.

According to João Carreira, Critical Links CEO, "The Communications Congress has allowed Critical Links to demonstrate the product capabilities. We cost-effectively deployed reliable secure wireless communications for hundreds of users over a large area in record time”. edgeBOX provides a all-in-one, remotely manageable networking device. It incorporates all the latest in-demand technologies such as VoIP, IP-PBX, WiFi, VPNs, security and QoS. It also provides network access control, has an integrated router and ADSL modem, can be used as a web server, email server and storage device.

APDC – Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Comunicações – was founded in November 1984 as a communications industry not-for-profit association . It aims to monitor industry trends and promote knowledge and debate about the communications industry evolution and its impact on society and the economy. Currently it has over 200 company and 2000 professional associates. It promotes a number of regular events and publishes industry magazines and anuaries. Every year it promotes the “Communications Congress”, widely considered the leading event for the portuguese communications industry.

edgeBOX has been identified as a key player in the emerging “Business Gateway” market by leading analyst house InStat and won the Best Broadband Appliance award at the World Broadband Forum in 2005. It was selected a finalist by IDG Communications’ Techworld for its 2006 “Small Business Product of the Year”. It was recently unveiled in several european markets, following successful launches in Brazil, China, India, Portugal, Chile, Singapore, and South Africa.

About Critical Links
Critical Links (http://www.critical-links.com) is an international networking software company and provider of edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMBs and Enterprise Branch Offices. Network integrators market edgeBOX to enterprises for deployment at their branch offices, while Telecom Service Providers and Managed Services Providers offer it as a service to their SMB customers.
edgeBOX is available from business partners in the UK, Brazil, India, Singapore, China, South Africa and Portugal. Critical Links provides support and update services that keep edgeBOX secure and reliable.
Critical Links is a w holly owned subsidiary of Critical Software SA, established in 1998, with over 100 employees, headquarters in Portugal and subsidiary offices in the UK and USA. The company is CMMI Level 3 compliant and has a reputation for producing mission and business critical networking and telecoms solutions for the telecoms, public sector, industry, aerospace and defence markets, with customers such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Infineon Technologies, NASA, EADS and ESA.