Solera Networks Updates Solera CALEA Appliance; Experiences Strong Customer Adoption

Solera Networks CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) appliance continues to gain momentum, giving Internet and VoIP service providers a low-cost, plug-and-play solution to capture and store all network traffic to support law enforcement requests for “network wiretaps”

Las Vegas, Nevada (Interop) – May 22, 2007Solera Networks, a leading provider of lossless network packet capture and playback appliances, announced the immediate availability of the Solera CALEA Appliance v2.5. This updated version provides a number of enhancements that further ease ISP and VoIP service providers’ ability to facilitate lawful intercept requests by being able to capture, record and playback all network traffic.

Numerous customers have adopted the Solera CALEA Appliance as their solution to easily and inexpensively comply with lawful intercept requests from law enforcement agencies (LEA’s). They also use it to record and analyze their own network traffic to achieve optimized performance and improve customer satisfaction.

“We’ve seen tremendous adoption of our CALEA appliance because it not only helps service providers easily comply with CALEA, but they can also use it to monitor and improve the performance of their own networks,” said Bryan Sparks, Chairman and CTO at Solera Networks. “Only Solera Networks offers this dual-purpose product for customers, all for under $10,000.”

The Solera CALEA Appliance is a 1U rack mounted device capable of capturing at GigE and OC12 rates, has onboard storage capacity of 800 GB, and is designed to be deployed via a SPAN port or network regeneration TAP, allowing for streamlined and invisible network packet capture without affecting network performance. Solera Networks’ TimeShift™ filtering and regeneration technology provides the ability to fulfill lawful intercept requests based on physical layer MAC addressing, Internet Protocol addressing, payload, or protocol types. The Solera CALEA appliance uses the same technology found in the Solera DS line of packet capture appliances that supports up to 10 Gbps networks and provides the option for unlimited storage capacity.

“Our initial goal was to just find a solution that would get us compliant with CALEA regulations,” said Charlie Boening, Network Manager at Cal-Ore Telephone. “We were pleasantly surprised to find the Solera CALEA appliance not only meets our needs for CALEA, it also helps us monitor our own network traffic, identify intrusions, strengthen weak areas in our network and provides a better experience for our customers. We couldn’t find another solution that would provide this multi-purpose role at the price Solera Networks offered.”

The Solera CALEA appliance has received a number of enhancements including:

1. The ability to provide multiple taps, each delivering data to different LEA’s. This provides ISPs and VoIP providers a single box solution that can service more than one warrant at a time, from different LEA’s.
2. Support for Service Independent Intercept (SII) for implementation with Cisco networks. This provides a solution where simple SPAN port capture won’t meet network capture requirements. Now, network administrators can direct SII traffic directly to a Solera CALEA appliance for delivery to LEA’s.
3. System management enhancements to simplify the configuration of lawful intercept taps and updates to system settings. An updated GUI provides access to these new capabilities.

AvailabilityThe Solera CALEA 2.5 Appliance is available today through resellers or directly from Solera Networks. For more information on the Solera CALEA Appliance, visit: http://www.soleranetworks.com/solutions/calea-compliance.php or contact Solera Networks at 801 623-5705.

ABOUT SOLERA NETWORKSSolera Networks’ high-performance packet capture, record and playback devices are capable of capturing, streaming and archiving all traffic on any network, up to 10 Gb. Captured traffic is written to a scalable, disk-based cache system and presented as a virtual file system which is accessible to any standard security, forensic, compliance, analytics or network management application. Those applications can then perform their analysis on either live or stored data, with the ability to throttle or accelerate traffic speeds and filter playback based on source/destination, protocol, time period and other variables.

Solera DS devices are rack mountable and support off-the-shelf disk storage and SAN solutions, attaching to the network via SPAN connections or network taps. A hardened SELinux platform and proprietary file system ensures security, while web-based administration, preconfigured hardware and an open architecture provides for simple plug-in and play deployment. For more information on Solera Networks, visit http://www.soleranetworks.com/