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Silicom Ltd. today announced that it has signed an OEM agreement with one of the world's leading providers of Internet security solutions for the sale of Silicom's family of innovative Multiport Gigabit Ethernet Bypass Adapters. The customer will use the advanced Bypass Adapter as a part of its new internal security appliance, where continuity requirements are of the highest priority, to assure uninterrupted performance during power failures and other unexpected disruptions. It has already placed initial orders under the terms of the OEM agreement. In addition, the customer is gearing up to certify Silicom's Bypass Adapters as interoperable with its world-renowned software security platforms. This certification will pave the way for the use of Silicom's Bypass Adapters by the customer's many partners and users who use its security platforms in a variety of other security appliances. "We are proud that this industry-leading Internet security company has turned to Silicom to answer the need for a state-of-the-art bypass solution," said Shaike Orbach, Silicom's President and CEO. "By automatically rerouting traffic around faulty components, our Bypass Adapters solve a critical vulnerability of single-point gateway architectures: the ease with which a malfunction can compromise network continuity. By using our high performance Bypass Adapters, it becomes easy and cost-effective to solve the problem and assure availability. "These capabilities, together with the performance boost provided by the adapters' multi-porting gigabit speed capabilities, make our Multiport Gigabit Ethernet Bypass Adapters ideal for use in the full range of gateway appliances, including those used for network monitoring, load balancing, network event management, e-mail content filtering and virus protection and intrusion."