New Era, New Brand: CommScope Unveils New Identity

The company that began as a small provider of cabling to the nascent cable TV market in the 1970s has blossomed into a multi-billion dollar, global infrastructure leader with solutions installed in the world’s best wireless, wireline, enterprise and cable television networks. Beginning today, its new branding will better reflect the energy, capabilities and leadership that CommScope provides every day in serving its vast array of customers across multiple markets.


CommScope’s new corporate identity is more representative of the company today and its role as a trusted resource and partner to network providers around the world. The brand makeover is the first for CommScope since the mid-1990s and follows the acquisitions of Avaya’s Connectivity Solutions division in 2003 and Andrew Corporation in 2007. The new brand initiative portrays a more dynamic company with a contemporary look and feel and a more structured hierarchy of product and solution brands serving the telecom carrier, cable television, business enterprise and government markets.


“This is an exciting time for CommScope as we embark on the next phase of the company’s growth as a private company and as the global economy continues to rebound,” said Ted Hally, chief commercial officer, CommScope . “The introduction of our new corporate identity is a piece of that future, helping us tell a more unified story with clarity across the many markets and geographies we serve.


“CommScope has grown in size and expanded into new markets over the past decade, yet our branding wasn’t accurately reflecting the company we have become. Today, we have energized and modernized the look and feel of our brand, better defining to the market who we are. We also are integrating our strategic brands, while preserving their valuable equity and eliminating confusion with legacy corporate identities. CommScope no longer is a collection of separate businesses but one CommScope —an integrated global team of solution providers united in support of our great roster of customers.”

The new CommScope brand initiative includes:

· A tiered hierarchy of brands, in which CommScope will be the lead brand across all of its served markets.

· The design of a new logo featuring stylistic logotype in all capital letters, with an embedded and redesigned corporate icon that moves away from the previous “cable” icon.

· A change in corporate color to cyan blue from the previous teal green.

· The formalization of At Home, At Work and On the Go terms to represent the three primary market segments—broadband (cable TV), enterprise and wireless—served by CommScope today, and the introduction of icons to symbolize each. The On the

Go icon features the well-known “ Andrew flash” that stood as Andrew Corporation’s logo for decades and is seen in wireless networks around the world.


· Use of former corporate brands Andrew ® and SYSTIMAX® as solution brands in the On the Go and At Work markets.


These changes will be introduced in phases beginning immediately and continuing into 2012. CommScope will feature the new brand identity at its exhibit at the International CTIA WIRELESS 2011® trade show and conference, taking place March 22-24 at the Orange County Convention Center , Orlando , Florida .


“CommScope has a rich and cherished history, with roots that trace back to the formation of the cable television infrastructure, the first wireless networks and networking of the world’s first data centers and intelligent buildings,” said Fiona Nolan, marketing vice president, CommScope . “Today, corporate LANs, cell phone networks, the Internet, on-demand cable TV and other advanced networking applications all depend on technology we’ve developed. Now our customers will experience our brand consistently across
continents—the same integrity, honesty, and reliability we’ve displayed for years, only now with a fresh burst of energy, color, and story that can only come from the power of one CommScope.”


Quick Links:



· Read the “CommScope Story”



· See application of the new brand identity on the company’s web site

· Read more on the CommScope blog

CommScope®, Andrew®, SYSTIMAX® are registered trademarks of CommScope , Inc.


About CommScope :
CommScope® (www.commscope.com) has played a role in virtually all the world’s best communication networks. We create the infrastructure that connects people and technologies through every evolution. Our portfolio of end-to-end solutions includes everything our customers need to build high-performing wired and wireless networks. As much as technology changes, our goal remains the same: to help our customers create, innovate, design, and build faster and better. We’ll never stop connecting and evolving networks for the business of life at home, at work, and on the go.

Fortinet Extends Cloud Security with Four New Virtual Appliances

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a leading network security provider and the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions – today announced four new virtual appliances that extend the company’s ability to deliver security across virtualized and cloud environments. Fortinet has been securing virtual architectures since the introduction of Virtual Domain (VDOM) technology in 2004. Fortinet strengthened its virtualization capabilities in 2006 after it acquired the intellectual property and technology of CoSine Communications, one of the early leaders in the virtual appliance industry. The technology enables service providers to differentiate their on-demand platforms with a full range of value-add virtualized network security services. Large enterprises rely as well on Fortinet technology to protect the data within their private and hybrid clouds.


The FortiGate®, FortiManager™, FortiAnalyzer™ and FortiMail™ virtual appliances combine with physical appliances to provide customers with a choice of physical and virtual form factors, working together to mitigate security blind spots and increase security controls within virtualized infrastructure environments. The combined solution provides a deeper integration into the virtual environments many customers have adopted, enabling the company to expand the reach of its consolidated security further within the virtual movement.


The risks associated with blind spots in the virtual environment, along with the lack of security controls, become increasingly problematic as the size of virtual environments grow. By giving customers a choice of physical and virtual appliances, Fortinet is providing a 'single pane of glass' management platform that allows them the flexibility to use a combination of physical and virtual appliances together in order to achieve the right mix of performance, visibility, and control.

Fortinet Virtual Appliances

Fortinet’s virtual security appliances were built to run on top of VMware hypervisors and Fortinet is an Elite member of VMWare’s Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The new FortiGate virtual appliances help secure network infrastructures with integrated, multi-threat security. Like a traditional FortiGate appliance, a FortiGate virtual appliance protects infrastructure from a broad array of threats by enabling customers to consolidate their stand-alone security technologies, reducing the cost and complexity of their security infrastructure. Customers can combine firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, malware prevention, application security and complete content protection, data loss prevention, Web filtering, antispam, and have the added advantage of being able to inspect inter-zone traffic. In addition, FortiGate virtual appliances can be used in conjunction with traditional FortiGate appliances to help ensure both the perimeter and the virtual layers within a virtual environment are protected, visible and easy to manage.


FortiManager virtual appliances supply the tools needed to effectively manage any size Fortinet security infrastructure, from a few devices to thousands of appliances and endpoint security agents. The appliances provide centralized policy-based provisioning, configuration and update management for FortiGate, FortiWiFi and FortiMail appliances, as well as FortiClient endpoint agents.


FortiAnalyzer virtual appliances securely aggregate log data from Fortinet devices and other syslog-compatible devices. Using a comprehensive suite of easily-customized reports, users can filter and review records, including traffic, event, virus, attack, Web content and email data, mining the data to determine security stance and help assure regulatory compliance. FortiAnalyzer also provides advanced security management functions such as quarantined file archiving, event correlation, vulnerability assessments, traffic analysis and archiving of email, Web access, instant messaging and file transfer content.


FortiMail virtual messaging security appliances were designed to block inbound spam and malware before it can clog a network and affect users. They also help prevent outbound spam or malware (including 3G mobile traffic) from causing other antispam gateways to blacklist users.


The virtual appliances work similarly to their hardware counterparts, in that Fortinet continues to provide virtual Domain (VDOM) and Administrative Domain (ADOM) technologies for securing and managing virtual and multi-tenant environments. The virtualization technologies work in conjunction with industry-standard Virtual LANs (VLANs) to enable a single virtual or physical Fortinet device to support hundreds of domains within the environment, providing essential visibility and security controls between zones while maintaining the benefits of virtualization.


“While there are a few security companies dabbling with products that protect the network perimeter and the virtual layer, Fortinet is the only company to offer the full breadth of content and network security in an integrated appliance designed to protect both the network perimeter and virtual layers,” said Michael Xie, founder, CTO and vice president of engineering with Fortinet. “By providing deeper integration into the virtual environment, we are now positioned to expand our security market leadership and facilitate security within the ‘as-a-service’ movement.”



Availability

The FortiGate and FortiManager virtual appliances are available now. FortiAnalyzer and FortiMail virtual appliances will be available in Q4 2010.