ANCONA SYSTEMS, INC.. is a twelve-year old networking systems integrator at the forefront of the fast-paced and burgeoning field of WAN internetworking. Based in Foster City, California, Ancona has established a solid track record designing, implementing, and maintaining strategic data and voice networks.

The company maintains close relationships with a wide variety of vendors and manufacturers With these strategic alliances, the company can offer finest available state-of-the-art data communications hardware. These products include routers, Ethernet switches, DSU/CSU's, network security appliances—including firewalls and intrusion-detection systems, VPN concentrators, and content management appliances.

Ancona Systems is proud to be a long-standing Cisco Premier Certified Partner.

In offering a complete array of carrier services from the finest domestic and international carriers--including AT&T, Qwest, Asia Netcom, Singtel, MCI and others, we have established a wealth of expertise. Because of the breadth and depth of our experience and strong carrier relationships, we are able to offer our customers optimal product selection for their most critical data and voice services.

Because of our long-standing international experience and distributed customer base, we are particularly well qualified to work on international applications involving voice, data and IP bandwidth. Many of our customers specialize in software development for call center management with operations geographically dispersed locations such as the rapidly developing areas of India, the Philippines and China. Our strong relationships with multiple carriers allows us to provide carrier services, networking hardware and associated professional services to meet the needs of our most exacting customers.

Our engineers are particularly well suited to consult with customers in the following critical networking areas:

- Network security
- Network design
- Network implementation
- Network monitoring
- Network management

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in Ancona Systems, Inc. This year we celebrated our twelfth anniversary of serving leading organizations like yours. Recently, we moved our corporate offices back to Foster City, CA from nearby South San Francisco. Located near San Francisco International Airport, it is a strategic location for us. From this central location, we can best serve our customers along the Peninsula, in San Francisco, the East Bay, and Silicon Valley, as well.

As technologies and new products continue to evolve, we are continuing to offer our customers a balanced mix of solutions—including a complete set of professional networking services, advanced networking hardware products and carrier services.

Our typical customer applications might include security, intrusion detection, VPN’s, VoIP or a wide area networking (WAN) implementation. With our Cisco Premier Partner status, we are able to offer a full suite of networking hardware products in these advanced technology areas. To complement this effort, we also offer solutions from other leading networking firms including AdTran, Checkpoint, Nokia, Nortel, etc.

Concerning our carrier services, we have observed continued evolution in packages of services and products that major carriers offer. Based on these changes, we can offer our customers more convenient, “one-stop shopping” for voice and data with a complete selection of carrier offerings. These include data hosting, IP bandwidth, ATM, Frame Relay and International Private lines and local as well as long-distance voice. Maintaining close working relationships with major carriers such as AT&T, Qwest, MCI, Asia Netcom, Singapore Telecom and others, we can recommend the most appropriate package of products and services from various carriers to meet your most exacting needs.

Central to our ability to support customers in the above areas is our strength in network design, implementation, management and monitoring. Our team of engineers has a wealth of experience in offering creative, cost-effective and reliable networking solutions to our customers. Many small- or medium-sized businesses cannot afford to staff the expertise proficient in the increasingly complex world of internetworking. Ancona Systems can step in and fill this role in a reliable, fast and cost-effective manner.

Finally, I would like to offer our gracious appreciation to all of our customers over the past twelve years. Though we operate in a technical and changing world, the most rewarding aspect of our work is the close and long-standing relationships that we have developed with our customers. I thank you for the privilege of supporting you over the years.

Regards,

John D. Martin
President
Ancona Systems, Inc.