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Education, Health Care and Government Sectors Power Growth for Network Access Control

Concord, NH – Bradford Networks, a leading provider of comprehensive network access control (NAC) solutions, announced today that the company doubled bookings in fiscal 2007, driven by continued strong Campus Manager sales to the education market coupled with new growth in enterprise mark ets driven by the debut of NAC Director.
With more than 100 new customers during the past 12 months, a record for the company, Bradford won accounts in education, health care, financial services, government, military, and real estate, including Cornell University, Elmira College, Sarah Lawrence College, Cardiff University, Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust and Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. New education accounts encompassed a wide range of institutions around the world, including large universities, Ivy League schools, community colleges, boarding schools, and K-12 school districts.

Bradford’s NAC technology gives administrators highly flexible tools to control network access based on identity, ensuring that only authorized users can log into the n etwork and unauthorized users can’t bypass security systems by moving machines or changing the type of connection.

An expanded network of sophisticated VARS and integrators contributed significantly to Bradford’s growth. During the fiscal year, Bradford tripled its number of authorized resellers worldwide, adding such notable U.S. and European partners as Accuvant, FishN et Security, ePlus Technology, Bristol Group and Advnet. These new channels will contribute significantly to customer and revenue growth in coming years.

Matt Bossom, Director of Wireless Solutions at nationwide security consultant Accuvant, said ” Bradford’s NAC solutions deliver the advanced identity management and policy enforcement needed for effective security in an out-of-band architecture that leverages current network equipment. It’s the NAC solution we need to satisfy our demanding clients.”

“For performance and flexibility, customers around the globe are demanding NAC solutions that they can deploy now and that work seamlessly with their existing infrastructure,” said Mike Gadoury, Bradford Networks founder and CEO.“ Bradford’s technology delivers solutions for today’s business problems: Network access control for every network connection – wired, wireless, or VPN.”

Additionally, Bradford and Stonesoft Corp. this month launched a joint marketing agreement. Bradford’s NAC technology is ideally suited to automatically act on alerts based on information from the deep packet inspection of Stonesoft’s StoneGate intrusion prevention system ( IPS) offering.