Plat'Home Announces Availability of PacketiX VPN 2.0; Plat'Home's Layer 2 VPN Software Transparently Passes Through Firewalls and Proxies
October 9th, 2007
Plat'Home Co., Ltd (TOKYO: 6836) (JP3833000007) (President: Tomoyasu Suzuki: hereafter "Plat'Home") today announced the availability of the English version of PacketiX VPN 2.0, Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) software that allows any user to easily build a private network. PacketiX VPN 2.0 delivers a next-generation VPN with the transparency of SSL-VPNs and the flexibility of IPSec VPN communication. The only requirement to install PacketiX VPN 2.0 is Internet access and Web browsing. Unlike other VPN solutions, PacketiX VPN 2.0 achieves easy and flexible VPN deployment without requiring users to purchase additional large-scale hardware, redesign the existing network, or redevelop a working application.
This remarkable VPN solution provides an optimal platform for a comprehensive service, including access to head office resources from home, a hotel during a business trip, or a hotspot. Since its release in December 2005, the Japanese version of PacketiX VPN 2.0 has been rapidly gaining popularity with businesses and government offices in Japan, and more than 1,000 Japanese customers have adopted it. In 2006, PacketiX VPN 2.0 was awarded "Software of the Year" by the Information-Technology Promotion Agency Japan.
PacketiX VPN 2.0 is now available at Plat'Home Global Site (http://www.plathome.com/). A free, 60-day beta version can be downloaded from http://www.plathome.com/products/packetix/.
Plat'Home Co., Ltd. started in 1993 as a hardware reseller and the company that introduced the then fledgling OS Linux to Japan, and has since been leading the open-source computing business. In 2005, Plat'Home participated in an academic-industrial collaborative project called "AKIHABARA CROSSFIELD," based in Akihabara, the hub of information technology in Japan. Also in that year, Plat'Home was selected by SoftEther, the developer of the revolutionary VPN solution, to become SoftEther's 1st Partner.
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Press Contacts:
Plat'Home USA Ltd.
Tomomi Matsumoto, 408-351-3342
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