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Critical Links’ edgeBOX Wins TechWorld’s Prestigious “Convergence Product of The Year” Award
edgeBOX Business Gateway Distinguished in Fiercely Competitive Category
Southampton, UK, July 3rd, 2007 – Critical Links, an international networking technology company, today announced that edgeBOX, an innovative networking device providing complete converged voice and data network services for SMEs, won the “Convergence Product of the Year” Award from TechWorld, ahead of competition from Aspect; Siemens; On Relay; Shoretel and Fring.
Backed by IDG Communications, the largest IT publishing company in the world, Techworld is the UK's premier site for IT professionals. The Techworld Awards, now in its 13th year, look “to recognise those vendors and their products which have made a significant advance in networking technology over the past year”. According to TechWorld “Each product entry is evaluated on numerous criteria, including: Technical specification; Functionality; Features; Innovation; Performance; Configuration; Resilience; Ease of Use; Price; Fitness for Purpose; Market Position”. The independent panel of judges includes professionals from leading associations, top consultancies, private and public sector organizations and key technology editors from Techworld.com.
“edgeBOX is the first multi-function device or “Office-in-a-Box” that consolidates Voice, Data, and IT at a price point accessible to the booming SMB market” points out Mr. João Carreira, Critical Links’ CEO. “We are honoured that the industry experts on the judging panel at Techworld recognise edgeBOX as a leader in the emerging market in converged voice+data+IT appliances. We are an estimated 18 months ahead of our competitors and are strategically focused on creating market demand in the multi $ billion SMB Managed Services market through Service Providers, Telco’s and ISPs who are targetting this market."
The edgeBOX “Business Gateway” enables resellers to shorten the go-to-market lifecycle, with a “ready to market” single integrated platform that allows resellers and service providers to quickly deploy edgeBOX at their SMB customer sites to provide managed voice and data networking services.
As a multi-function business gateway that consolidates data, voice and IT services for small and medium sized businesses, edgeBOX effectively replaces an average of 4 to 6 devices, by providing a fully featured IP-PBX, router (wired and wireless LAN), security platform (VPN, Firewall, anti-spam/virus, etc.), and file/print/email/web servers along with full network access control. The result is a dramatically simplified deployment and management environment for all networking services, with significantly lower total cost of ownership.
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. It also recently won the 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award.
Further information can be found on the edgeBOX website: www.edgebox.net .
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About Techworld
Techworld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology media, research and event company. A privately-held company, IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers including Bio-IT World, CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Network World, and PC World. The company features the largest network of technology-specific Web sites with more than 400 around the world. IDG is also a leading producer of more than 170 computer-related events worldwide including LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®, Macworld Conference & Expo®, DEMO®, and IDC Directions. IDC provides global market research and advice through offices in 50 countries. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com. See www.techworld.com for more information about these awards.
About Critical Links
Critical Links (www.critical-links.com) is an international networking technology company, with its edgeBOX solution, a new business gateway concept, with the best features to price ratio of any multi-function converged network device on the market, with the added flexibility of being available in a range of customisable and scalable hardware platforms such as branded servers.
The edgeBOX is primarily targeted at SMEs and Enterprise Branch Offices, placing it between low-end networking appliances and high-end data centre installations. The edgeBOX is currently commercialised by an extensive partner network in the UK, Brazil, China, Chile, Germany, Spain, South Africa and Portugal. Critical Links provides support and update services that keep edgeBOX secure and reliable.
Critical Links is a wholly 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.
For more information:
Carlos Taveira;
Phone: +351 918711884;
Email: carlos-taveira@critical-links.com
Southampton, UK, July 3rd, 2007 – Critical Links, an international networking technology company, today announced that edgeBOX, an innovative networking device providing complete converged voice and data network services for SMEs, won the “Convergence Product of the Year” Award from TechWorld, ahead of competition from Aspect; Siemens; On Relay; Shoretel and Fring.
Backed by IDG Communications, the largest IT publishing company in the world, Techworld is the UK's premier site for IT professionals. The Techworld Awards, now in its 13th year, look “to recognise those vendors and their products which have made a significant advance in networking technology over the past year”. According to TechWorld “Each product entry is evaluated on numerous criteria, including: Technical specification; Functionality; Features; Innovation; Performance; Configuration; Resilience; Ease of Use; Price; Fitness for Purpose; Market Position”. The independent panel of judges includes professionals from leading associations, top consultancies, private and public sector organizations and key technology editors from Techworld.com.
“edgeBOX is the first multi-function device or “Office-in-a-Box” that consolidates Voice, Data, and IT at a price point accessible to the booming SMB market” points out Mr. João Carreira, Critical Links’ CEO. “We are honoured that the industry experts on the judging panel at Techworld recognise edgeBOX as a leader in the emerging market in converged voice+data+IT appliances. We are an estimated 18 months ahead of our competitors and are strategically focused on creating market demand in the multi $ billion SMB Managed Services market through Service Providers, Telco’s and ISPs who are targetting this market."
The edgeBOX “Business Gateway” enables resellers to shorten the go-to-market lifecycle, with a “ready to market” single integrated platform that allows resellers and service providers to quickly deploy edgeBOX at their SMB customer sites to provide managed voice and data networking services.
As a multi-function business gateway that consolidates data, voice and IT services for small and medium sized businesses, edgeBOX effectively replaces an average of 4 to 6 devices, by providing a fully featured IP-PBX, router (wired and wireless LAN), security platform (VPN, Firewall, anti-spam/virus, etc.), and file/print/email/web servers along with full network access control. The result is a dramatically simplified deployment and management environment for all networking services, with significantly lower total cost of ownership.
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. It also recently won the 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award.
Further information can be found on the edgeBOX website: www.edgebox.net .
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About Techworld
Techworld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology media, research and event company. A privately-held company, IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers including Bio-IT World, CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Network World, and PC World. The company features the largest network of technology-specific Web sites with more than 400 around the world. IDG is also a leading producer of more than 170 computer-related events worldwide including LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®, Macworld Conference & Expo®, DEMO®, and IDC Directions. IDC provides global market research and advice through offices in 50 countries. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com. See www.techworld.com for more information about these awards.
About Critical Links
Critical Links (www.critical-links.com) is an international networking technology company, with its edgeBOX solution, a new business gateway concept, with the best features to price ratio of any multi-function converged network device on the market, with the added flexibility of being available in a range of customisable and scalable hardware platforms such as branded servers.
The edgeBOX is primarily targeted at SMEs and Enterprise Branch Offices, placing it between low-end networking appliances and high-end data centre installations. The edgeBOX is currently commercialised by an extensive partner network in the UK, Brazil, China, Chile, Germany, Spain, South Africa and Portugal. Critical Links provides support and update services that keep edgeBOX secure and reliable.
Critical Links is a wholly 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.
For more information:
Carlos Taveira;
Phone: +351 918711884;
Email: carlos-taveira@critical-links.com