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Sanmina-SCI Announces Low-Cost, Market-Ready 2-Gigabit and 4-Gigabit VPN/Firewall Solution for OEMs

Posted on: Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 09:00 CDT

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sanmina-SCI Corporation , a leading global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company, today announced a low-cost, market-ready 2-Gigabit and 4-Gigabit VPN/Firewall appliance.

The 2-Gigabit and 4-Gigabit VPN/Firewall appliance meets the growing demand for small and large enterprise organizations to secure their Gigabit networks at a fraction of the current market prices. The 2-Gigabit and 4-Gigabit VPN/Firewall solution is now available to OEMs to either brand or incorporate into their own systems and programs.

"Sanmina-SCI's security solution helps OEMs hit the Gigabit security window of opportunity without the typical development risks and costs," said Naresh Nigam, Senior Vice President of New Technologies and Ventures at Sanmina-SCI. "This solution uses entirely new silicon and provides an immediate means to implement LAN-speed security at a fraction of the cost of other Gigabit security products. OEMs are now able to sell more security products in more places in their customers' networks."

"Sanmina-SCI has developed a security product that will solve key problems faced by network and security managers around the globe," said Jeff Wilson, Principal Analyst VPNs and Security at Infonetics Research. "Leveraging their substantial design and manufacturing capabilities, Sanmina-SCI has developed a revolutionary security appliance offering a true Gigabit VPN/Firewall appliance at an unheard of price."

2-Gigabit and 4-Gigabit VPN/Firewall Key Features: -- 2-Gigabit and 4-Gigabit LAN-speed firewall -- 1-Gigabit and 2-Gigabit LAN-speed VPN -- LAN-speed performance at small packet sizes -- DDos attack prevention -- Site-to-site and remote access IPSec VPN (3DES & AES) -- 802.1q VLANs -- Security zones (virtual firewalls) -- Static and dynamic routing -- Ethernet and fiber-ready connectivity (simply add optional fiber SFP interfaces) -- Lower-power consumption: 40 watts -- RoHS and WEEE compliant -- ICSA and VPNC compliant (both in process)

Sanmina-SCI, one of the world's largest EMS companies, provides end-to-end engineering, manufacturing and logistics services that allow OEMs to quickly and profitably bring new products to market. Today, Sanmina-SCI's ODM portfolio consists of servers, Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance, Storage Area Network (SAN) products, REDI-COMM(TM) (Rapid, Expandable, Deployable, Interoperable Communications), TOCNET(TM) (Tactical Operations Center Intercommunications), ATCA-computing backplane and chassis, high performance cooling system, memory modules and TASR (Tunable All-optical Signal Regenerator).

For more information and to speak with a Sanmina-SCI sales representative, please call 408-904-2100, email SalesVPNFirewall@sanmina-sci.com or visit the ODM page of the Company's website at http://www.sanmina.com/Solutions/odm.html .

About Sanmina-SCI

Sanmina-SCI Corporation is a leading electronics contract manufacturer serving the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina-SCI provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering unsurpassed quality and support to OEMs primarily in the communications, defense and aerospace, industrial and medical instrumentation, multimedia and consumer, computer and server, and automotive technology sectors. Sanmina-SCI has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world. More information regarding the Company is available at http://www.sanmina-sci.com/.

Sanmina-SCI Safe Harbor Statement

The foregoing, including the discussion regarding the company's future prospects, contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including uncertainties associated with economic conditions in the electronics industry, particularly in the principal industry sectors served by the company, changes in customer requirements and in the volume of sales to principal customers, the ability of Sanmina-SCI to effectively assimilate acquired businesses and achieve the anticipated benefits of its acquisitions, and competition and technological change. The company's actual results of operations may differ significantly from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements as a result of these and other factors, including factors set forth in the company's fiscal year 2005 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on December 29, 2005 with the Securities Exchange Commission.

Sanmina-SCI Corporation

CONTACT: Michael Kovacs, Director, Corporate Marketing, +1-408-964-3142,or michael.kovacs@sanmina-sci.com, or Paige Bombino, Investor Relations,+1-408-964-3610, both for Sanmina-SCI

Web site: http://www.sanmina-sci.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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