Top Layer Networks Wins Award

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -- Oct. 24, 2005 --Top Layer Networks, the global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that Service Provider Weekly, a weekly publication dedicated to the service provider industry, has named it to the Service Provider Weekly Top 50 Vendors list. From hundreds of submissions across categories ranging from power and appliances to voice-over-IP to Web services and security, the Top 50 Vendors list recognized Top Layer Networks for its leadership in providing robust intrusion prevention systems that can maintain the highest levels of protection in today's demanding service provider network environments.

"Service Providers have unique needs regarding security -- they require high-performance, high-availability networks that maintain supreme levels of protection to enable their customers to conduct daily business. They can't afford down-time, or their customers will quickly find a new service provider," said Peter Rendall, president and CEO of Top Layer Networks. "For Service Provider Weekly to recognize Top Layer Networks as a Top 50 Vendor serving its audience, and among the select few security vendors, we are truly honored. We look forward to continuing to deliver intrusion prevention solutions that are optimized for the service provider market."

"We had many nominations across a variety of categories, and Top Layer Networks stood out among an impressive group of submissions," said Ken Durham, editor-in-chief of Service Provider Weekly. "The company's IPS 5500 intrusion prevention solutions offer service providers and Web hosters the in-line protection that they need to ensure uptime and performance - two keys to the service provider market success."

Performance, reliability and accuracy are crucial in protecting hosting organizations from worms, zero-day exploits, brute-force attacks and other emerging threats, and the NSS Group's stamp-of-approval is a crucial requirement of IPS product purchases. Top Layer's IPS 5500 remains the only IPS product to achieve NSS-Approved status -- the de facto standard for testing inline intrusion prevention devices -- for defending against both content-based and rate-based attacks.

About the Top Layer IPS 5500

The IPS 5500 family offers the strongest levels of network IPS protection, performance and reliability on the market today. By improving upon the most powerful characteristics of stateful firewall technology and intrusion detection systems, Top Layer has developed the IPS 5500 in order to protect against attacks in real-time with minimal interruption of legitimate traffic. Top Layer executes high performance, non-disruptive deep packet inspection and analysis coupled with intelligent blocking of attacks through TopFire(TM) second-generation ASIC technology and TopInspect(TM) Deep Packet Inspection.

To learn more about the IPS 5500, visit www.toplayer.com or call 508-870-1300.

About Service Provider Weekly Magazine

Service Provider Weekly provides readers with the latest news, reviews, product information, opinion and trends to service providers. Service Provider Weekly is published in an all digital format that is well-designed and easy-to-read. In addition, Service Provider Weekly publishes profiles and features on the people and products that shape the technology industry. For more information, go to www.spweekly.com

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, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.