Intel® Itanium® 2 Processors Power New Fingerprint Identification System For Lithuanian Police

VILNIUS, Lithuania, Nov. 13, 2003 - Intel today announced that the Lithuanian Police Forensic Science Centre has deployed a new Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-powered central fingerprint database to support local police forces and improve productivity.

The upgraded Authentication Fingerprint Information system (AFIS), approved by the European Union and optimized for the Itanium 2 processor platform, enables more comprehensive data analysis and management, and supports Web-based searches by local police stations. The AFIS database holds over 200,000 sets of fingerprints and enables local units to quickly search for matches, increasing the speed of access and response to police checks.

The latest version of the AFIS software solution has been deployed on BGM Elite* hardware powered by Itanium 2 processors and running the Oracle 9iRAC* database. The Criminal Police Bureau is now equipped with a sophisticated identification tool that improves the accuracy of fingerprint matching and links results to individual record files and demographics data. The Itanium 2 processor-powered solution provides 24x7x365 availability to the central AFIS database for all authorized users.

"As part of our national initiative to tackle crime, we are investing in tools which help our police forces manage and fully utilize the huge levels of data that we hold," said Genrikas Nedveckis, deputy head of the Lithuanian Police Forensic Science Centre. "With this new, improved Itanium 2 processor-powered central system we're able to perform faster matches on a larger, more comprehensive database of information. Furthermore, we have been able to cut the manual paperwork involved, enabling us to improve police productivity at the center and at local police units."

"The Itanium 2 processor is uniquely designed for the most demanding enterprise applications," said Dave King, Intel regional director for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. "These high-performance computing engines enable Lithuanian police to deploy their data-intensive AFIS application on open-standard, cost-effective Intel-based servers."

"The most important thing for BGM is technology development, and we are proud that we can take part in the creation of excellent tools for the Lithuanian IT community," said Arunas Birmontas, BGM executive manager. "The AFIS at the Lithuanian Police Forensic Science Centre runs on Itanium-based servers, and is currently the most critical application in Lithuania working on 64-bit Intel architecture. The whole solution is providing excellent performance for the Lithuanian Police authority."

About AFIS
AFIS development was started in 1989 by an independent group of Lithuanian programmers by order of the Lithuanian Police for exploitation in the Forensic Science Centre. This system is integrated with the European EURODAC system, and consists of one four-way Intel Itanium 2 processors server used for a database, five two-way Itanium 2 servers for high-performance computing, and one two-way Itanium 2 server for WEB Applications. The AFIS database holds more than 200,000 sets of fingerprints and enables local units to quickly search for matches, increasing the speed of access and response to police checks.

About BGM
BGM, established in 1991, is currently one of the leading manufacturers of Intel architecture-based servers and supplier of integrated solutions in Lithuania. The company was the first to achieve certification of EMC and Safety of its servers in Lithuania in 1998. BGM's quality management system was ISO9001 certified in 1999. BGM has been an Intel Premier provider since 2000. Technical support, information about the company and its products are available from BGM's call center +370 5 216 3530 and email: mail@bgm.lt

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