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Top Layer Networks Partners with TrekIT to Bring Intrusion Prevention Solutions to Israeli Markets

Westborough, MA and Kefar Saba, Israel, March 08, 2006 -

TrekIT Value Added Distributor Network of Resellers Brings Award-Winning IPS 5500 to Israeli Enterprises

Top Layer Networks, the global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, and TrekIT, a leading value added distributor (VAD) that specializes in best-of-breed IT security and network management solutions, today announced a partnership that brings Top Layer’s network intrusion prevention system, the IPS 5500, to the Israeli market with TrekIT as its value-added distributor. This combination of the industry’s most celebrated IPS solution with TrekIT’s extensive reseller network and value-added services means that Israeli enterprises will receive the best network IPS solution on the market with the best services available.

”Top Layer Networks completes a very important offering that was missing at TrekIT -- the enterprise IPS. The Israeli market needs the cyber protection that can be delivered by an enterprise IPS with the reliable support of a dedicated VAD,” said Ricardo Resnik, vice president of marketing and business development for TrekIT. ”TrekIT’s resellers will be happy to have Top Layer’s IPS 5500 as a proven IPS in their solution set to sell to the Israeli business market that seeks to improve their cyber security.”

TrekIT has more than 550 resellers in its VAD network, and TrekIT and its strategic partners together visit prospects and customers regularly. As part of its VAD network, TrekIT provides ongoing training, pre-sales tech support, workshops given by lecturers from abroad, and co-marketing and joint sales efforts. TrekIT also produces a monthly newsletter with the latest information of TrekIT vendors, updates, invitations to web seminars, courses and promotions that is distributed to thousands of contacts in the Israeli IT business community.

”TrekIT is one of the leading VADs in the Israeli market, and we are thrilled to be a close partner,” said Peter Rendall, president and CEO of Top Layer Networks. “Leveraging TrekIT’s network of more than 550 partners will help Top Layer expand its geographic reach into important Israeli markets, while providing Israeli companies with the three dimensional protection from cyber threats that our IPS 5500 delivers.”

About the Top Layer IPS 5500

The IPS 5500 family of products offers the strongest levels of network protection, performance and reliability on the market today. By combining stateful firewall, content-based IPS/IDS, and attack mitigation algorithms, the IPS 5500 is the only solution that provides Three Dimensional Protection (3DP) against undesired access, malicious content and rate-based attacks. Top Layer’s architecture enables the IPS 5500 to protect enterprises and service providers from sophisticated, hybrid attacks in real-time while enabling the highest throughput of legitimate traffic.

Top Layer Networks’ family of network intrusion prevention solutions, the IPS 5500 series, has received top accolades from the world’s most prestigious labs and influential publications. In 2005, Top Layer received the most awards and achievements of any IPS, including recognition from the NSS Group, Computer Reseller News, Information Security Magazine, SC Magazine, IT Week, Service Provider Weekly, the Tolly Group, and more.

About TrekIT

Founded in 2005 in a merger between Trekdata Technologies Ltd. and ITway Ltd., TrekIT Ltd. is a leading Value Added Distributor that specializes in best-of-breed IT Security and Network Management solutions. TrekIT’s mission is to sell technology only through its partners, who are skilled resellers. TrekIT has 5 different types of partners: Systems Integrators; ISPs; VARS; retailers and the traditional computer/software resellers. The value that TrekIT provides its resellers includes training, pre-sales tech support, workshops, and coop marketing funds.

About Top Layer Networks

Top Layer Networks is dedicated to its role as the leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), developing and bringing to market network security infrastructure solutions that help commercial and government organizations protect their critical on-line assets from the losses and risks associated with cyber threats. Its family of IPS appliances is designed with “Three Dimensional Protection” that provides the most advanced protection capabilities against known and unknown attacks at the highest tested performance rates. Top Layer Networks is headquartered in Massachusetts, USA with sales and support presence in Canada, Germany, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Contact:

Ricardo Resnik TrekIT Phone: +972-9-7643773 Email: ricardo@trekit.co.il	Oren Bason Allmedia - Marketing & Communications Phone: +972-3-9235383 Email: oren@allmedia.co.il