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Digi-Sign Certification Services and Newtech
Technology sign MOU to exploit growing demand for virtual private
network technology
(Hong Kong, December 3, 2002) - Digi-Sign Certification Services
Limited and E-business infrastructure provider Newtech Technology
Company Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to
jointly provide a one-stop-shop service for companies looking
to benefit from Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology.
Newtech provides total e-Business and IT infrastructure solutions
from consultancy, design, implementation and system management
for Datacom Solutions, Enterprise Solutions, e-Business Applications
and Data Centre Infrastructure.
Digi-Sign Certification Services Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Tradelink. It is the first private Certification Authority
recognised by the Hong Kong Government under the Electronic Transactions
Ordinance. Branded ID-Cert, the digital certificates issued by
Digi-Sign can serve to confirm the identity of users who access
remote servers over public data or virtual private networks.
Under the agreement, Newtech will sell, market and promote Digi-Sign's
products and services such as digital certificates to enable secure
electronic transactions. The technology is designed to help corporations
establish a more cost effective and highly secure communications
channel to support their critical business applications.
Mr Patrick Chung, CEO of Digi-Sign, said:" The complete
integration of Digi-Sign's certificates into proven VPN technology
is suitable for corporations who require secure communications
between their headquarters and branches, or between customers
and suppliers."
Mr Charles Lee, Managing Director of Newtech, pointed out that
more companies are replacing their existing telecommunications
infrastructure with VPN technology by implementing secure internet
protocol (IP) tunnels between their corporate sites as well as
to business partners and remote users. He said, "Virtual
Private Network allows corporations to dramatically reduce their
operating and telecommunication costs while increasing productivity
by using the high performance, readily available technology. It
provides great value to many industries such as banking and finance,
manufacturing, distribution and government."
Newtech uses VPN appliances developed by NetScreen, the market
leader in Firewall, VPN and traffic management appliances from
the US. It provides a wide scope of products, from high-performance
security systems of 5000 series for Telco to 5 series entry level.
Easy deployment of advanced encryption and tunnelling permits
companies to establish end-to-end private network connections
over the internet.
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For press enquiries, please contact Tradelink (Corporate Communications)
on 2599 1686.
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