Original sentence: Based in Leeds and Southampton, the company has continued to develop the commercial, closed source SmoothWall product range, and has moved from its initial direct sales model to a reseller, channel-based sales model.Further modules have been released over time, each providing a particular set of functionality, such as traffic shaping, and e-mail anti-virus and anti-spam.In April 2007, the company released the SmoothGuard 1000-UTM hardware appliance, based on a commodity Intel Core 2 Duo 1U 19-inch rack-mountable chassis.School Guardian is a variant of Corporate Guardian, adding Active Directory and LDAP authentication support.The 1000-UTM comes pre-installed with a variant of SmoothWall Advanced Firewall
Edited sentence: An internal sales team handle lead generation, account management, and partner liaison duties.Based in Leeds and Southampton, the company has since inception continuously increased its product range and scope from SME to enterprise class products, and today is a mature software vendor with customers worldwide.In April 2007, the SmoothGuard 1000-UTM hardware appliance was released.School Guardian is a specialist product aimed at the education market that includes the functionality of Corporate Firewall, SmoothGuardian, together with Active Directory and LDAP authentication support.SmoothWall are a channel focussed organisation, with distribution and VAR partners around the World.The first resellers were announced on 3 December 2001; at time of writing, February, 2007, there were over 200.The software feature-set of the appliance mirrors that of Advanced Firewall, offering firewalling, VPN, web proxy, content filtering, e-mail scanning, user authentication and reporting services.Using the Intel Core 2 Duo platform, the 1000-UTM offers SmoothWall pre-installed on a 1U 19-inch rack-mountable chassis, with 7 gigabit Ethernet ports, each configurable as a LAN, DMZ or external network interfaces