Ottawa, Canada, March 5, 2007 – Solace Systems, the leading supplier of content-aware networking equipment for service providers and enterprises, today announced that they have signed an agreement with Net One Systems Co. Ltd., Japan’s largest network solutions provider, to distribute Solace’s complete family of content-aware networking products in Japan. 

This agreement allows Net One Systems to sell and service Solace equipment to service provider and enterprise customers throughout Japan. Working with a market leader like Net One Systems significantly expands Solace’s footprint in Asia.

“Asian service providers and large enterprises are on the cutting edge of next-generation technologies and are moving quickly to embrace intelligent network technologies, ” said Crispin Clarke, Senior Vice President, Global Business Development at Solace Systems. “Net One Systems shares our vision of the opportunities content-aware networks present and their strong relationships enable us to more effectively address customer demand in this growing market.”

To date, Net One Systems and Solace Systems have announced two successful content-aware networking deployments. Net One Systems, as a member of the Live E! Consortium, deployed a country-wide environmental monitoring and information sharing network based on Solace technology in 2006. In February 2007, Net One Systems and Mitsubishi Corporation announced a new service that uses Solace technology to connect corporate product and service offerings with companies and consumers in Japan. This new agreement will allow many more real-time applications and services to be developed across broad market segments.

“We are very pleased to be expanding our relationship with Solace to bring this evolution in network technology to Japanese customers, ” said Toru Arai, Managing Director at Net One Systems. “Together, we can bring our combined strengths to the deployment of next-generation autonomous network services in consumer and enterprises markets.”

This distribution agreement covers Solace’s VRS/32 content-aware routers as well as all Solace hardware expansion modules that enable unique high-speed content processing capabilities directly within the network.

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