A new suite of Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions designed to offer cost-effective, reliable and secure VPN services between central site, remote branch office and small office/home office (SOHO) locations has been released by Cabletron Systems SA.
The solution set includes application-aware VPN routing platforms, directory-enabled SPECTRUM service level management (SLM) applications and support for key industry standards.
"Cabletron`s VPN solutions allow enterprise customers to affordably migrate from private WAN to VPN services, and allow service providers to deliver flexible, bundled services to their customers," says Cabletron Systems SA country manager, Martin May.
"Cabletron`s VPN solutions enable enterprise customers to gradually add VPN services to their existing WAN infrastructures, while service providers can leverage Cabletron`s solutions to deliver the security, performance, reliability and quality of service (QoS) required to trust key business applications to the Internet," he says.
"With a line-up of VPN products spanning small offices, branch sites and large corporate offices, Cabletron is able to deliver a complete VPN solution.
"Our research shows that customers will implement VPNs in conjunction with their existing private networks. Cabletron`s solution allows them to make this migration cost-effectively, at the rate that makes sense for them."
Central to Cabletron`s New VPN Solutions are two new series of SmartSwitch Routers (the SSR 600 and the SSR 700 platform). The new SSRs provide flexible, high-performance VPN security and manageability between central site, and regional and branch offices.
The SSR 600 is available as a stand-alone platform, or as an integrated, high-speed interface module (HSIM) for Cabletron`s SmartSwitch 2000, SmartSwitch 6000, SmartSwitch 9000 series of application-aware switches.
It features two 10/100 Ethernet interfaces and two modular WAN interfaces (SWPIMs). IPSec and L2TP protocols with wire-speed, hardware-based compression, DES/3DES encryption and public key acceleration deliver support for hundreds of site-to-site VPN tunnels.
The SSR 710 features two Ethernet interfaces, four serial WAN ports and two ISDN PRI interfaces with hardware-based compression and DES/3DES encryption. L2TP and IPSec with high performance embedded DES and DES/3DES encryption capability ensures data security over both public and private networks and the ability to quickly establish connections with new users.
Meanwhile Cabletron also announced significant VPN enhancements to its current line of SSR 100, 200 and 500 SOHO and branch office routers to support secure VPN tunnelling based on IPSec and L2TP.
According to Cabletron, its products can deliver VPN solutions over all major 'last mile` access technologies, including cable, xDSL, PPP, Frame Relay, ISDN and wireless connections.
Cabletron`s multivendor SPECTRUM Enterprise Manager platform will provide five key management services for VPN networks.
A consistent, Web-based interface will simplify configuration of VPN services across multiple devices, with directory services providing storage of configuration, security and QoS policies on a per-user, application or device basis.
Policy-based QoS monitoring will give users a better understanding of VPN performance, while service level agreement (SLA) monitoring will provide service providers with the information needed to deliver QoS commitments to customers.
Traffic accounting of VPN services will enable service providers to generate usage reports and to verify delivery of committed service level agreements to their end user customers.
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