Telenor Satellite Services Previews New Secure Networking Filter

Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway, is previewing "the first in a series of secure networking value added services to enable users to more effectively monitor and filter security attacks and unwanted Internet content over satellite communications."

Telenor currently anticipates commercial launch of the service, called Terralink Secure, during this year's second quarter.

The service is designed to stop unwanted content coming from the Internet to a user's satellite terminal before it enters the satellite portion of the end-to-end connection. Telenor says this differs from firewalls and security programs running on the user's PC, which can stop this traffic only after it has passed over the satellite portion of the connection, so it makes for a more efficient use of the satellite link.

Arvid Johannessen, who directs Telenor's product development and innovation group, said "that while managed security services are becoming very common for terrestrial Internet service providers, Terralink Secure is one of the first services of its kind to protect customers' satellite communications in the same manner."  03-05-2007.

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