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Netspective webfilter integrates Contexion online lookup service from RuleSpace

On: 2002-02-06 11:53:15

Combined technologies enable the industry's most comprehensive,accurate and user-friendly URL content categorization solution

Alanta, GA - February 06, 2002 - Telemate.Net Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise resource management solutions and a Verso Technologies, Inc. company, announced today that NetSpective WebFilter has enhanced its URL content categorization capabilities by incorporating Contexion™ Online Lookup Service, a web content recognition subscription service, from Rulespace, LLC. NetSpective WebFilter is the first high performance, passive, filtering appliance to deploy Contexion, which also powers filtering solutions offered by America Online and Intel. By pairing Contexion Services' continual discovery of inappropriate web sites and subdirectories with Telemate's own patent-pending Adaptive Filtering technology, NetSpective WebFilter provides a unique "dual inspection" process to deliver comprehensive web content filtering and reporting for enterprise, government, education and services provider networks.

NetSpective WebFilter, a high-performance, firewall-independent network appliance, employs its innovative SideScanä filtering technology to eliminate objectionable, productivity-detracting or otherwise risky traffic, without creating a potential point of network failure or performance loss. NetSpective's patent-pending, Adaptive Filteringä process ensures that all sites surfed by customers are reviewed using both NetSpective and RuleSpace proprietary technologies.

"Our partnership with RuleSpace will marry two best-of-breed technologies to create the most accurate, comprehensive and easy-to-use URL filtering solution in the industry", said Steve Odom, chairman and chief executive officer of Verso Technologies, Telemate.Net's parent company. "We're thrilled to be the first high performance, passive-filter appliance to deploy RuleSpace's innovative, patented technology."

One of the fastest growing segments in the URL content filtering market is non-English web sites. Contexion Services continually searches the Web for inappropriate content in multiple languages including English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Using patented neural network and pattern recognition technology (US Patent 6,266,664) to categorize discovered web content, Contexion Services automatically analyzes individual web pages, site structure, subdirectories and links, then stores the URLs for these sites and subdirectories and their associated category ratings in the largest database of pre-categorized inappropriate Web content available today.

"The NetSpective WebFilter appliance is redefining expectations for URL filtering performance and simplicity," said Charlie Kawasaki, president and CEO, RuleSpace, LLC "Empowered with the superior content discovery and categorization of Contexion Services, NetSpective creates a highly versatile and appealing solution for enterprise customers."

NetSpective WebFilter's flexible pricing options enabling customers to pay-per-user or to select pricing according to bandwidth - features which make the solution appealing to a variety of customers, from K-12 schools to high traffic Internet Service Providers.

About TeleMate
Telemate.Net Software, a Verso Technologies Company, is a leading provider and pioneer of usage management solutions for Internet, intranet, and voice networks with a customer base of over 14,000 users that range from small businesses with 50-100 employees to Fortune 1000 organizations. Its NetSpective product line of Internet access management solutions protects companies against the risks of Internet abuse - legal liability, adverse publicity, bandwidth waste, and lost productivity.

About RuleSpace, LLC

RuleSpace, LLC is a privately held corporation located in Portland, Oregon. RuleSpace has been providing award winning Parental Controls services since 1996, and is the World’s leading creator and provider of Parental Controls for ISPs and MSOs, filtered search providers, and OEM solutions through its Online Lookup Service, offering access to over 50 million accurately categorized URLs in 14 languages. RuleSpace's Online Lookup Service is powered by RuleSpace's Embedded Analysis Toolkit which instantly recognizes web content, processing new and modified web content as it appears on the Internet.



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