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News Topics: Main | New England | New Jersey / New York | San Francisco Bay Area | Southern California | Texas | Canada | Europe | Israel | People | Archive Start-up Company Directories: Optical | Wireless | Silicon | DSL   Reef Point Raises $21 Million for FMC, Names New CEO\ Reef Point Systems, a start-up based in Burlington, Mass., raised $21 million of new financing for its security solutions for fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) networks. Reef Point offers a massively-scaleable Multiservice Security Gateway for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks extending across multiple next generation networking standards including 3GPP IMS, 3GPP2, ETSI TISPAN, and PacketCable. The design takes a multi-zoned, fully virtualized, defense-in-depth approach to security that includes individualized subscriber protection for up to 150,000 simultaneous registered users and up to a million simultaneous IMS flows, network core and element protection, as well as protection for the gateway itself. In addition, the IMS Security Gateway also supports Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) security functionality, providing operators deploying UMA today with a migration path to IMS without the need to replace installed gateways. Reef Point's FMC security solution is available through Reef Point and its global channel partner Alcatel as part of Alcatel's UMA and IMS solutions for mobile service providers. Through Alcatel, Reef Point is currently participating in a number of customer trials. The funding was led by new investor American Capital Technology Group and included existing investor Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). Reef Point Systems also announced the appointments of Woody Ritchey as its new CEO and Dennis Chateauneuf as Chief Operating Officer. Most recently, Ritchey's comes from YGOMI, a privately held portfolio management company where he was the senior executive responsible for three YGOMI portfolio companies, including Arraycomm, a wireless software company. Prior to this, he served as CEO at revenue assurance solutions provider Connexn Technologies and at intellectual asset management solutions provider Delphion. Earlier, Ritchey was President and General Manager of INVISIX, a Cisco-Motorola joint venture that delivered IP transport to wireless carriers. Most recently, Chateauneuf was CEO of Sentito Networks, a provider of carrier-class VoIP switching and open service delivery platforms. Previously, he served as CEO of switching equipment start-up DTI Networks and later CopperCom. http://www.reefpoint.com 19-Jun-06 Recent Start-up News Juniper to Acquire SMobile for Mobile Security 7/27/2010 Oclaro Acquires Mintera for 40 Gbps Transmission 7/21/2010 Dell to Acquire Ocarina Networks for Storage Optimization 7/19/2010 Ubiquisys Secures $9 Million for its Femtocells 7/12/2010 Pareto Launches Cloud-based Branch Office Networking Service 6/29/2010 Vopium Raises $16.5 Million for Mobile Alternative Skype 6/25/2010 Polaris Wireless and Globecomm Partner on Managed E911 Phase II Services 6/21/2010 MobileIron Offers Management Solution for iPhone 4 and iOS 4 6/21/2010 Telegent appoints Ford Tamer as CEO 6/17/2010 Carrier IQ Raises $12 Million for Real-Time Mobile Metrics 6/16/2010 picoChip Secures New Funding for Femtocell Silicon 6/14/2010 Quantenna's 4x4 MIMO Chipset Receives Wi-Fi Alliance Certification 6/10/2010 Calient Expands Sales Staff, Sees Opportunity in 100G Switching 6/7/2010 Ozmo Devices Raises $10 Million for Wi-Fi PAN 6/7/2010 ClariPhy Raises $24 Million for its 10/40/100G ICs 5/26/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton Does Network Neutrality Impact DPI? by James Brear       E-mail Newsletter Sign up for a FREE TRIAL of our newsletter