Ansai, an emerging Chinese network security company, and Hifn, the network- and storage-security market leader, entered into a strategic partnership today. The strategic partnership enables the companies to collaborate on technology, products and marketing.

Ansai will have access to Hifn's proven security and storage technologies, including the industry-standard LZS compression technology. The partnership also provides Ansai with exclusive rights to represent Hifn and its products in China as well as to leverage Hifn's established marketing and distribution channels to promote Ansai's products globally.

For Hifn, the partnership offers access to Ansai's state-of-the-art design and verification capabilities as well as providing local technical support for Hifn's China-based customers. Through the partnership, Ansai can also utilize their sales and marketing channels to promote Hifn's products in the Chinese market.

"The strategic partnership between Ansai and Hifn will further strengthen the competitive edge of both firms. On one hand, this enables Hifn to tap into the Chinese market more efficiently. On the other hand, we can integrate Hifn's industry leading technologies into our development efforts and provide technology-intensive, high-value network- and storage-security products," said Mr.Jiebing Wang, CEO of Ansai.

"This is a complementary partnership for both companies," said Chris Kenber, CEO of Hifn. "The cooperation with Ansai will greatly accelerate our expansion in China and enables us to more quickly explore this huge potential market. Additionally, Hifn will take advantage of Ansai's expertise by marketing Ansai's technologies and products in markets outside of China."

Hangzhou Ansai Information Technologies Co., Ltd. (Ansai) specializes in developing, marketing and sales of high-performance information security processors, lossless compression/decompression ASICs and relevant subsystems. Leveraging cutting-edge EDA design capabilities, Ansai has successfully built its ASICs and subsystems with its own intellectual property. The company is headquartered in Hangzhou and has branch offices throughout China, including Beijing.

Hifn combines security, compression, content search, and flow classification technology into solutions for networking, security and storage suppliers. Hifn's solutions are deployed in virtually all market-leading networking and security products. Founded in 1996, Hifn is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

Source:佚名