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SSH Communications Security, Inc. (SSH), the world-leading developer of Internet security and advanced cryptography solutions, and CoSine Communications, the leading developer of managed IP service delivery platforms for business IP service providers, today announced an alliance to incorporate SSH's Internet protocol security (IPsec) technology into CoSine's IP Service Delivery Platform. The agreement will enable CoSine to provide service providers with everything they need to offer managed network-based virtual private networks (VPN) with IPsec encryption services. By integrating SSH's IPSEC Express(TM) into CoSine's platform, service providers can leverage its processing economies of scale to deliver even the most computationally complex services, such as IPsec, at line speed for thousands of enterprise subscriber networks simultaneously.

"We are very pleased to be working with CoSine, the leader in IP service delivery platforms for Internet applications such as e-commerce," said George Adams, president and CEO, SSH. "Combining SSH's leading-edge Internet security technologies with CoSine's IP service platform strengths will accelerate the deployment of secure network-based IP services for CLEC and interexchange carrier subscribers."

SSH's IPsec technology adds scaleable, strong security to IP without limiting its flexibility to enable new types of business opportunities, such as secure local and global communications between companies, e-commerce, and e-banking. Additionally, comprehensive integration support and maintenance from SSH makes product development and deployment more easily and quickly integrated and implemented. The high quality offered by SSH IPSEC Express also ensures that leading partners like CoSine will continue to provide their customers with state of the art and value-added IP network solutions.

"CoSine's open architecture allows us to easily integrate market-leading technologies such as SSH's IPsec into our IP Service Delivery Platform," said Ellen Schwab, VP of business development at CoSine Communications. "As a result, service providers can offer their subscribers managed, high-value VPN services such as e-commerce, extranets and intranets with the privacy and security they require to run mission-critical applications over a public IP network."

About CoSine Communications

Founded in 1997 and based in Redwood City, Calif., CoSine Communications is the leading developer of managed IP service delivery platforms for business IP service providers who are struggling to create complex, value-added public networks with today's limited technology. The CoSine solution enables CLECs and interexchange carriers to quickly and reliably turn up value-added services to their wholesale and retail subscribers.

CoSine's founders, executive management and engineering teams include industry veterans who have helped to shape the infrastructure and services of today's Internet at such leading companies as Ascend Communications, Bay Networks and NEC. CoSine's engineering team is experienced in telecommunications, network and service management, software development and design, routing, high-performance parallel processing, load balancing and carrier-class switching.

CoSine is privately owned and financed through strategic investors and venture capital. To date the company has raised $34.5 million from the following investors: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Communications Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners, Lucent Venture Partners, BCE Capital Inc., Anschutz Investments and Wilson Investors.

For more information about CoSine Communications, visit the company's Web site at www.cosinecom.com.

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