Department of Homeland Security Purchases Identix' Biometric Technology

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Department of Homeland Security Purchases Identix' Biometric Technology;

DHS Places Order Valued at $600,000 for Identix Ten-Print Rolled Touchprint(R) Live Scan Systems with a Reseller under the NASA SEWP 3 GWAC

MINNETONKA, Minn., Nov 14, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Identix Incorporated (Nasdaq:IDNX) today announced the receipt of a competitive purchase order under the NASA SEWP 3 GWAC valued at approximately of $600,000 from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the delivery of Identix TouchPrint 3000 series rolled ten-print live scan systems. The devices are being deployed by DHS at Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) sites to assist in the electronic scanning of fingerprints and to facilitate simultaneous verification from both DHS and FBI fingerprint databases. The live scan systems are all expected to ship and be installed in the Company's fiscal 2006 second quarter ending December 31, 2005.

Identix President & CEO Dr. Joseph J. Atick commented, "The Department of Homeland Security continues to be a leader in the adoption and deployment of biometric solutions to strengthen the security of our Nation's borders. Identix is proud to supply DHS with biometric solutions and we look forward to continuing to meet their requirements."

Identix TouchPrint Enhanced Definition 3000 Series

The TouchPrint Enhanced Definition 3000 Series exceeds the FBI Appendix F standard by providing 3.5 times the pixel density and 300 percent more contrast, resulting in images that have far more fine ridge detail than dictated by the Appendix F requirements. The TouchPrint Enhanced Definition 3000 Series employs technologies that take into account subjects with different size fingers and skin colors, sweaty fingers and users rolling fingers at different speeds. The systems produce clear, crisp fingerprint images with virtually no distortion or false minutiae that can be caused by smudging and smearing. TouchPrint Enhanced Definition 3000 Series systems are designed to maintain consistent image quality over time, and with no moving parts in the optics deck and no silicon pads or coatings to change, they provide maximum reliability and minimal downtime, lowering the total overall cost of ownership.

The TouchPrint Enhanced Definition 3000 Live Scan Series is comprised of rugged and stylized terminals for roll and slap fingerprint capture that can be integrated with software for a complete fingerprinting system in either desktop or transportable configurations, as well as standalone booking stations designed to withstand heavy traffic and harsh environments.

Identix and TouchPrint are trademarks or registered trademarks of Identix Incorporated in the United States and other countries.

About Identix Incorporated

Identix Incorporated (Nasdaq:IDNX) is the world's leading multi-biometric technology company. Identix provides fingerprint, facial and skin biometric technologies, as well as systems, and critical system components that empower the identification of individuals in large-scale ID and ID management programs. The Company's offerings include live scan systems and services for biometric data capture, mobile systems for on-the-spot ID, and backend standards-based modules and software components for biometric matching and data mining. Identix products are used to conduct background checks, speed travel and commerce via secure identification documents, prevent identity fraud in large-scale government and civil ID programs, and control access to secure areas and networks. With a global network of partners, such as leading system integrators, defense prime contractors and OEMs, Identix serves a broad range of markets including government, law enforcement, gaming, finance, travel, transportation, corporate enterprise and healthcare.

More information on Identix can be accessed via the Company web site at http://www.identix.com.

Statements in this press release and that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements reflecting management's current expectations, assumptions and estimates of future performance and economic conditions. All forward-looking statements are made in reliance on the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Identix cautions investors that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, those related to: the availability of funding from government and other customers; the readiness of customers to accept delivery and integration of software and hardware components on a timely basis; the ability of the Company to achieve targeted levels of software and hardware revenue mixes; increasing levels of competition; and other risks identified in the Company's SEC filings. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

SOURCE: Identix Incorporated

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US govt buys world's biggest RAM disk  (for Department of Jew'dland Security 6 years ago)
2.5TB in solid state memory - but what's it for?


By Chris Mellor | Techworld

Published: 00:00 GMT, 09 March 04
The US government has just bought the world's biggest ever solid state disk from Texas Memory Systems. The 2.5TB system is "the largest SSD installation in the world by far, without question", the executive VP for TMS, Woody Hutsell, told Techworld. The previous biggest one was under 500GB, he told us. At 2.5TB, it is roughly 10,000 times the size of the RAM in your PC. The list price of the system, which is made up from 40 RamSan 320 units, reviewed here, is $4.7million, although the US government received a discount. It was installed by TMS' OEM Dynamic Solutions International. So where is it and what's it to be used for? Well, the installation site is in Washington DC and the application involves hosting metadata for large file systems, several databases including Oracle and the acceleration of other storage-based applications by holding, for example, journal files in the SSD. What that means in simple English is that the US government has just bought the world's biggest RAM drive in order to speed up cross-checking across several vast databases. The way databases work, a query will tend to scan an entire table if it thinks that anything more than a small percentage of the table's contents are relevant. However, when you are talking about vast databases, that process requires a huge amount of memory to store all the details. Unless you can store all that information temporarily (say in RAM), the query has to read from disks and that is a far, far slower process. The problem is compounded hugely when you are running a query across multiple databases. So, if you want to get at the information as fast as possible you need a monster RAM memory to temporarily store the details while it is sifting through. We do know that several of the servers using the SSD storage are running Solaris and that altogether the site has about 100TB of storage, but the specific government department and applications involved have not been revealed. However, not that many departments could possibly want to run such vast queries regularly. It would also be extremely difficult to justify a $4.7 million investment unless that work was seen as vital and speed was a main consideration in that work. It is also peculiar that such a large purchase could be approved at a time of tightening belts. Now, we're not saying that the Department of Homeland Security is behind the purchase. Or that it is using the technology to search the various databases of people that it, the government, the NSA and the Pentagon possess. But all of them are based in Washington DC and there are of course some issues about Islamic terrorists already living in the States. A RamSan 320 unit holds up to 64GB of RAM in a 3U rack unit. The US government order is housed in three full height rack units. There are over 320 2Gbit/s Fibre Channel ports and the aggregate I/O rate is 36Gbit/s. That is some serious hardware. Hutsell tells us that "the customer has been happy so far". He expects there may be additional purchasing later this year.

http://news.techworld.com/storage/1176/ ... -ram-disk/

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May 19, 2010
Comcast Revolutionizes Network Performance Data Analysis with Vertica

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor

Network monitoring has become an challenge facing telecommunications providers who must handle large volumes of network data.

The case is especially severe with companies like Comcast (News - Alert), which has millions of network components and billions of metrics that could indicate a potential service interruption or other problem.

Because of the volume and throughput of data, Comcast found challenges when it came time to choosing a database management system. The company was looking for a time-series data store to take their architecture to the next level.

In a new whitepaper, Vertica Systems, a provider of analytic database management software, explains how Comcast faced the challenges associated with network data using Vertica Analytic Database (News - Alert) 2.0. The database solution, according to company officials, is a "high-speed, relational SQL database management system or "DBMS" purpose-built for analytics and business intelligence."

Vertica Database 2.0 features a shared-nothing, column-oriented architecture. It also uses compression very aggressively, both of data on disk and on data "in motion" during queries, which further enhances query speed while enabling cost-effective storage management. With this, companies can store up to 10 terabytes of data in just 1 to 3 terabytes of disk space. The software runs on clusters of inexpensive, industry-standard Linux servers. Whenever the company wants to increase query performance, load times or capacity, they can simply add more servers without paying a hardware or software license.

Click here to view the whitepaper titled "Comcast Revolutionizes Network Performance Data Analysis with Vertica."

Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Stefania Viscusi

http://dns.tmcnet.com/topics/web-perfor ... ertica.htm

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Another old TIU link to look at:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4611

Improper use of Deep Packet Inspection could be Internet game-changer

Postby MikeWB » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:59 pm
So this is how they will screw us! They can basically rewrite every page that a person sees on their computer. Imagine viewing TiU with word Jewish censored or sentences rewritten.

SCARY!

March 20th, 2009
    Report: Improper use of Deep Packet Inspection could be Internet game-changer
    Posted by Sam Diaz @ 1:49 pm

    Categories: Advertising, Broadband, Deep Packet Inspection, General, ISPs......
    Tags: DPI, Internet Service Provider, Phorm, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs)......

    There are legitimate uses for a technology called Deep Packet Inspection. But it's the "improper" use of the technology that prompted Washington-based Free Press to release a report this week entitled: "Deep Packet Inspection: The End of the Internet As We Know It."

    In a nutshell, DPI allows Internet Service Providers to monitor Internet traffic in their pipelines in real-time and use that data to deliver targeted advertising, control the speed of access to Web-based services or impose tiered pricing models for light or heavy users. That's the "improper" use that's made the technology controversial. The legitimate usage would fall in the lines of routing traffic to make sure that emergency services - such as a 9-1-1 call over a VoIP service - isn't slowed down by a large number of people streaming a March Madness game. In its report, Free Press explains how DPI works:

    Messages on the Internet are broken down into small units called packets. Each packet contains a header and a data field. The header contains processing information, including the source and destination addresses. The data field contains everything else, including the identity of the source application (such as a Web browser request, a peer-to-peer transfer, or an e-mail), as well as the message itself (part of the contents of a Web page, file or e-mail). Packets are much like letters – the outside of the envelope is like the packet header, and the inside, like the data field, carries the message.

    Historically, Internet communications were processed using only information in the header, because only that information is needed to transfer packets from their source to their destination. By contrast, DPI technology opens and reads the data field in real time, allowing network operators to identify and control, at a precise level, everyday uses of the Internet. Operators can tag packets for fast-lane or slowlane treatment – or block the packets altogether – based on what they contain or which application sent them.

    Building on the analogy, it's like the Post Office opening our credit card bills to see where we shop and dine and then putting coupons in the mailbox to lure us to competing stores and restaurants. It's no wonder that DPI became a hot-button topic in Washington last fall and that lawsuits against NebuAd and Adzilla have popped up.

    In the U.S., ISPs have backed away as far as possible from any connection related to DPI. But that hasn't been the case in other countries, notably the U.K., where a DPI company called Phorm was given a go-ahead flag by regulators. Phorm's future, however, looked a bit shaky when executives were leaving late last year.

    Still, regardless of who's providing the technology, Free Press argues that the improper use of it could be a real Internet game changer:

    improper use of DPI can change the Internet as we know it – turning an open and innovative platform into just another form of pay-for-play media. Although early uses of real-time DPI by ISPs have been geared toward targeted advertising and reducing congestion, manufacturers market the technology for its ability to determine and control every use of a subscriber's Internet connection. When a network provider chooses to install DPI equipment, that provider knowingly arms itself with the capacity to monitor and monetize the Internet in ways that threaten to destroy Net Neutrality and the essential open nature of the Internet.

    It's understandable how the ISPs would want to find a new source of revenue from their pipelines, which are under pressure to be faster and fatter to accomodate services such as streaming video, webcasts and voice services - Web-based services that generate revenue for others. And then there are images like these that were highlighted in the Free Press report as a way of showing ISPs how DPI technology can turn their low-margin dumb pipe into a money-making smart pipe.

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Re: Improper use of Deep Packet Inspection could be Internet game-changer

Postby MikeWB » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:22 pm

http://www.freepress.net/files/Deep_Pac ... now_It.pdf

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Re: Improper use of Deep Packet Inspection could be Internet game-changer

Postby CrackSmokeRepublican » Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:08 pm

Comcast has been using it for probably 2 years. I noticed the day it came on in 2007. I was playing a game and suddenly the connection stopped with massive lags. That day, they started using their crappy software Sandvine. I stopped using Comcast shortly after that. Comcast logs can of course be picked apart by Israelis since it uses Vertical software such as Vertica for Log analysis.