Thales today announced that AT&T Government Solutions will deploy the Thales SONET Datacryptors on the Joint Hawaii Information Transfer System (JHITS) network. AT&T Government Solutions was awarded the contract by Defense Information Technology Office (DITCO), which is a part of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), a division of the Department of Defense (DoD). The JHITS contract has an estimate contract value of $250 million.
The Thales SONET Datacryptor and lower speed Datacryptors will be deployed to secure the JHITS network. The SONET Datacryptors have minimal latency and will allow the network to operate at maximum efficiency while encrypting mission critical applications.
We are pleased to support AT&T and continue our long relationship with DISA and the DoD", said Cindy Provin, President, e-Security activities in the Americas . The Datacryptor SONET devices are transparent to the SONET switching equipment and offer customers easy scalability and central management.
About Datacryptor® products:
Thales continues to demonstrate its leadership and strength in the encryption marketplace, as it currently maintains over 30 FIPS product certifications for the Datacryptor product line.
The Datacryptor range of hardware encryptors provides strong FIPS 140-2 certified security at layer 2 and layer 3 applications including leased line links, SONET, IP networks, and Gigabit Ethernet links. With AES (128, 192, 256-bit) or 3DES (168-bit) algorithms built in, the Datacryptor family is designed to meet the stringent requirements mandated by the DoD.
About Thales
Thales is a leading international electronics and systems group, addressing defence, aerospace and security markets worldwide. Thales's leading-edge technology is supported by 22 000 R&D engineers who offer a capability unmatched in Europe to develop and deploy field-proven mission-critical information systems. To this end, the group's civil and military businesses develop in parallel and share a common base of technologies to serve a single objective: the security of people, property and nations. The group builds its growth on its unique multi-domestic strategy based on trusted partnerships with national customers and market players, while leveraging its global expertise to support local technology and industrial development. Thales employs 68,000 people in 50 countries with forecast 2007 revenues in excess of €12 billion.
The Security Solutions & Services Division, operational since 5 January 2007, combines the businesses of Thales' former Security and Services divisions with those of Alcatel-Lucent's Transport Systems Division and Integration & Services Division. Our security solutions and services activities around the world now generate revenues of about 3.2 billion euros, with a 20,000 employees in 35 countries.
About the e-security activities of Thales
Thales is a world leader in the provision of cryptographic security products and solutions for all critical infrastructures including governments, the military, satellite networks, enterprises and the finance industry. Thales has 40 years of unrivalled track record in protecting networks up to TOP SECRET and a complete portfolio of products, which includes network encryption, access control and remote user solutions. In the financial world, Thales secures value bearing transactions, data preparation for card and PIN issuing, and provides advanced user and message authentication solutions supported by secure identity management and token issuing. Over half of the world's banks, together with the majority of the busiest exchanges, currently use Thales technology and services.
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Thales e-Security, Inc.
Alok Sharma, Vice President of Sales
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