

The iPolicy Networks system stopped the attacks and released the bandwidth previously held hostage by malicious traffic, eliminating the need to immediately acquire more bandwidth. The company installed an iPolicy 4400 Intrusion Prevention Firewall to provide stateful firewall, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention and anti-virus security services. “The iPolicy product gives us the multiple defense mechanisms we need to stop all of these threats without having to change our infrastructure or our business model.”īijou Telephone Co-op is a 70-year old Telephone Co-op that provides 10,000 businesses and homes with Internet access in a 100-square-mile area 50 miles East of Denver, Colo. “Denial of Service attacks were getting past our existing firewall and wasting valuable bandwidth,” said Bill Buchanan, executive vice president of Bijou Telephone Co-op.

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Rural telecommunications service providers such as Bijou Co-op, cannot afford to install extra high-speed lines to make up for this reduction in bandwidth.” “Because current solutions work serially and come from different vendors, each new addition reduces throughput and increases the operating complexities. “The wide variety of malicious attacks requires today’s service providers to implement multiple security defense mechanisms,” said Prabhu Goel, chairman and CEO of iPolicy Networks. The installation also paves the way for Bijou Telephone to offer new content-filtering security services to its customers in the future.
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With the assistance of security systems integrator Subsentio, the co-op evaluated and chose iPolicy Network’s solution to clean its network feeds, improve uptime and free up the bandwidth of its expensive T-1 lines. New security threats were breeching the co-op’s existing security systems, stealing expensive bandwidth and degrading the quality of the company’s Internet access services. SeptemiPolicy Networks, inventor of the Intrusion Prevention Firewall for real-time network protection, today announced that Bijou Telephone Co-op prevents worm and virus attacks in real time, reclaims previously tied-up bandwidth and saves money through the deployment of the iPolicy 4400 Intrusion Prevention Firewall. Many of CTA's member companies provide fiber-to-the-home networks.ĬTA's members are dedicated to providing the highest quality communications services available at affordable prices for all their customers in rural Colorado.FREMONT, Calif.

There are three categories of membership.Ĭategory One Companies are providers of local exchange service, including voice, video and data.Ĭategory Two Companies may be inter-exchange carriers, wireless providers, information services providers or competitive local exchange providers.Ĭategory Three Companies are vendors and suppliers of goods and services to the telecommunications industry.ĬTA's Category One members have state-of-the-art high-speed, multiuse networks.

Over the years, CTA has grown and expanded its membership. "To promote the availability of resources and enhance the opportunity of its members to provide the most advanced and highest quality communications networks and services to customers in rural Colorado and link residents of the state to the global network." Founded in 1963, the Colorado Telecommunications Association represents the telephone companies, vendors and service providers that connect many of the Centennial State's most vibrant farming, ranching and mountain communities.ĬTA's Bylaws today provide that its Mission is:
