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| Lucent Announces the VPN Firewall Brick 50 IP Services Platform Lucent Technologies has announced the latest member of its firewall and virtual private network (VPN) security appliances portfolio - the VPN Firewall Brick 50 IP services platform. Designed by Lucent's R&D arm, Bell Labs, this new network security device was specifically developed for the small to medium enterprise and delivers the performance, flexibility, capabilities and price point required to protect corporate networks and ensure seamless and secure remote access by satellite offices, telecommuters and business travelers. In a compact chassis, Lucent's Brick 50 delivers integrated high-speed firewall functionality, quality of service bandwidth optimization, site-to- site and remote access virtual private network services, virtual LAN (VLAN) and virtual firewall capabilities, and a powerful IPSec software client for remote users. The solution also features robust protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks through SYN flood protection, intelligent cache management, and strict TCP and IP packet validation. The new device, as with all Lucent firewall systems, runs on a Bell Labs- developed secure operating system and can be centrally administered using the Lucent Security Management Server management tool. The VPN Firewall Brick 50 features 195 Mbps of firewall performance, 75 Mbps of 3DES (Data Encryption Standard), VPN performance, and 60 Mbps of AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) performance due to a new hardware assisted encryption engine. The platform also features three 10/100 Ethernet ports and concurrently supports up to 1, 000 simultaneous VPN tunnels, 4, 094 VLANs and 50 virtual firewalls. The Lucent VPN Firewall portfolio is used to secure various government, enterprise and service provider networks throughout the world. Service Providers globally utilize the advanced features and centralized management facilities as a cost effective solution to offer managed security and VPN services to their customers. The Lucent VPN Firewall portfolio was designed from the start to be a highly secure, fully redundant and centrally managed security solution that provides customers with improved security, less operations downtime, and considerably lower operational expenses over traditional firewall solutions. The product portfolio features include: o Full-featured bridging: enables stealthy, depth-of-defense security that conventional router-based firewalls cannot match. o Advanced security safeguards: denial-of-service attack protection; high-speed content security; premium authentication services, with low occurrences of reported advisories or vulnerabilities and no backdoors. o High-performance packet processing: supports up to 4 million simultaneous sessions, 1.000 virtual firewalls, and 7.000 VPN tunnels. o Ultra-thin, highly secure operating system: Bell Labs-developed software has proven to be virtually impenetrable to hacker attacks; frees memory for packet processing, policy management. o Plug-and-play deployment: implement secure mission-critical applications without costly, time-intensive network reconfiguration o Low ownership costs: no ongoing feature-licensing expenses; easy installation, management and upgrades save IT staff time and effort; high-performance, high-capacity features reduce the need to purchase additional equipment. o Simplified management: unique client/server design; centralized staging, real-time monitoring and no-touch management of all VPN, security and service-quality assurance capabilities via scalable, proven LSMS o Virtual firewall and VLAN support: easily assign and enforce security policies for diverse user groups. o Granular bandwidth management: maximize service quality via flexible class-based queuing (CBQ) technology, server-level and user-level limits and guarantees. o Carrier-grade reliability: native high-availability architecture with no single point of failure. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |