NetSTAR

TOKYO January 13, 2010

TOKYO—January 13, 2010—NetSTAR, Inc., Japan’s premier developer of URL filtering product technologies and services, today announced that its filtering service for small and medium enterprises, Site Umpire, is now compatible with Yamaha Inc.'s broadband VoIP router RT58i. In addition, NetSTAR today began sales of a new package that includes the RT58i router and Site Umpire with a five-year license.

　Site Umpire is a filtering service for small and medium enterprises that runs on the corporate router and that NetSTAR has been selling since 2007. Compared with other products that require software installation or that run on a server, Site Umpire has lower startup costs, fewer server settings, and less administrative overhead. Thus it is ideal for small and medium enterprises that are just introducing monitoring of employee Internet use, and it is even being adopted by medium to large enterprises for use in regional offices..

　The RT58i is a multi-function broadband VoIP router that went on sale in 2006 and is widely used by small and medium enterprises. Thanks to a firmware upgrade on January 13, the RT58i can now be used with Site Umpire. Using Site Umpire with the RT58i, the number of categories being filtered increases from 71 to 76, allowing for more flexible filtering configurations. Small and medium enterprises that are concerned about Internet misuse on the job by employees and virus infections via the Internet, but want to keep costs down, can use existing routers and implement filtering at very little cost with this package.

　On January 13, NetSTAR will begin selling 5-year licenses with the newly upgraded RT58i. Customers who are introducing filtering for the first time can choose this package and avoid firmware upgrades, which is a more economical approach to introducing Site Umpire than purchasing a license only.
RT58i firmware upgrades for Site Umpire compatibility is available for download free of charge from the NetSTAR website. For details on the Site Umpire compatible firmware, see Site Umpire at the following URL.
http://www.netstar-inc.com/smb/router/index.html

NetSTAR will continue to contribute to society by providing a safe and secure environment in which anyone can access the Internet from anywhere—from large corporations to small and medium enterprises and private homes—working with many partners in a variety of ways to provide a variety of services.

RT58i compatible-Site Umpire and RT58i and Site Umpire 5-year License Package
- Compatible equipment: RT58i
- Compatible firmware:  Rev.9.01.49 Netstar patch #5
For details about the firmware upgrade and compatible equipment, see the following URL.  
http://www.netstar-inc.com/smb/router/index.html
- Function highlights: Internal database URL filtering, sender IP address setting, IP address-based URL access, URL filtering condition display, URL and category log output
- Fees, RT58i and Site Umpire 5-year license: 198,000 yen (tax not included) (license period 5 years, 1 license is good for 15 terminals), License only: 50,000 yen (tax not included) (license period 1 year, 1 license is good for 15 terminals)

About NetSTAR, Inc, and URL Lists
　NetSTAR specializes in the development of URL filtering software and services, and in the collection, categorization, and delivery of URL lists. NetSTAR URL lists are used in a number of market-leading products like InterSafe WebFilter by Alps System Integration Co., Ltd., and InterScan WebManager by Trend Micro Incorporated.  Recognized for its high performance and low false positive rate, our products are number one (*1) among large companies with strict quality requirements, including approximately 60% of prefectural governments, 40% of central governments, and 40% of the companies in the Nikkei Excellent Company Ranking. We also have a greater than 40% share of the market nationwide. (*2)
　NetSTAR's URL lists are now being used in security appliance products and routers for small- and medium-size businesses, and many individual customers are using them through our home-use filtering services. Over the years, NetSTAR has gained much recognition for the broad applicability of its individual URL lists as well as the quality and reliability of its collection, categorization, and delivery processes. As the defacto industry standard, NetSTAR’s URL lists for filtering services have been adopted by all mobile phone operators in Japan, which are required to provide filtering services under the Internet Control Law. (*3)
http://www.netstar-inc.com/
*1. Based on NetSTAR's research *2. according to Fuji Chimera Research Institute *3. we distribute new lists daily for use in the filtering systems of NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, Softbank Mobile, WILLCOM, and EMOBILE.

General inquiries about this press release
NetSTAR, Inc., Product　and　Service　Sales　Section,　Sales　Department
E-mail: rt_filter@netstar-inc.com

* NetSTAR is a registered trademark of NetSTAR, Inc. Other product and company names are the registered trademarks of their respective companies.