Nortel VPN and Security Router

 

The Nortel VPN Router 1750 serves several roles in enterprise and carrier IP networks: basic IP access router, dedicated VPN switch, or firewall and can evolve from one to another through a simple license key. Supporting up to 500 VPN tunnels, the VPN Router 1750 is ideal for office centers, campuses, or large branch offices with several hundred users. With four expansion slots, the VPN Router 1750 can support range of LAN, WAN and acceleration cards for fan-out and back-up purposes, giving maximum expansion flexibility at an attractive entry price

Product Features

• Provides IP access routing or secure VPN access for office centers, campuses, and large branch offices requiring up to 500 IPSec tunnels.
• Offers complete IP access router and VPN features in a single box, including IP routing, virtual private networking, stateful firewall, encryption, authentication, policy services, quality of service (QoS), and bandwidth management services.
• Supports standard IPsec, L2TP, PPTP, and L2F tunneling protocols to interoperate with a wide range of multi-vendor VPN software and hardware.
• Encrypts outgoing traffic with DES, 3DES, or Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to prevent eavesdropping of data en route.
• Accepts incoming traffic through authenticated, tunneled connections, and logs all transactions for audit and trend reporting.
• Authenticates users via RADIUS, LDAP, SecureID, X.509 digital certificates, token cards or smart cards; works with enterprises existing directory-based authentication services.
• Supports industry-standard routing protocols that enable dynamic routing of traffic around network trouble spots and load-balance traffic across parallel paths, both for tunneled and non-tunneled traffic.
• Integrates management, access, routing, and policies into a consistent security structure -- which in turn supports dynamic routing over secure IPsec tunnels, service turn-up on demand, and common policies across VPN, firewall and routing services.
• Provides QoS and bandwidth management features that support Differentiated Services (DiffServ), RSVP, sophisticated IP traffic prioritization and queue management.
• Supports multiple interface types -- 10/100 Ethernet, T1 CSU/DSU, HSSI, V.35, X.21 -- for maximum flexibility in network placement and failover capabilities if a primary WAN link fails.
• Provides 128 Mb of RAM (upgradeable to 256 Mb) in a compact desktop unit, hardened to withstand environmental conditions in unregulated customer-premise locations.
• Interoperates with existing firewalls, routers, and servers; requires no changes to network, user workstations, sub-netted intranets, or user applications and operating systems.
• Supports stateful packet inspection firewall capability, which accepts or denies traffic based on full examination of incoming and outgoing packets for more than 100 application protocols.
• Supports granular security policies, where each user, group, or branch office connection -- internal or external -- can have a unique filtering profile with different access rights.
• Uses Web graphical interface, command-line interface, or VPN Router Multi-Element Manager utility for easy configuration of a single unit or bulk provisioning of up to 2500 units across a large network.
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  Product Benefits

• Enables office centers, campuses, and large branch offices to obtain secure IP access, VPN services, and firewall services.
• Enables service providers to cost-effectively offer branch-to-branch or branch-to-headquarters VPN connectivity as a managed service.
• Flexible software licensing system enables enterprises to turn up services as needed, to grow a Nortel 1700 IP access router into a dedicated VPN device, then a VPN platform with stateful firewall services.
• Streamlines equipment requirements by packaging required VPN software and hardware in a single box, without requiring other localized network equipment or servers.
• Protects transmissions from eavesdropping through DES, 3DES, AES, or RC4 encryption; optional accelerator card speeds processing-intensive encryption.
• Protects user workstations and corporate network resources from unauthorized access by supporting firewall services, packet filtering, and accepting only authenticated, tunneled traffic.
• Reduces administration costs through centralized, integrated management of remote units over the Internet, and multi-box configuration through the VPN Router Multi-Element Manager.

Nortel VPN Client

The Nortel VPN Client provides user-side ('client') functionality for secure remote access over IP networks using Nortel VPN routers and VPN servers. Nortel VPN Client software works on virtually all user workstations access platforms, including Windows 2000, NT, ME, XP, Mobile (Pocket PC), IBM-AIX, SUN-Solaris, Linux and Macintosh operating systems

Key Features:

• Provides full user-side functionality for VPN Router and VPN Gateway-based secure access from Windows, Unix/Linux, Solaris, Pocket PC, and Macintosh systems
• Enforces centralized security policies, including bandwidth allocation, access control, authentication, encryption, and other user parameters; triggers automatic denial or termination of out-of-parameter client connections
• Enables PDA and other devices running the Windows Mobile operating system (Pocket PC) to securely connect to VPN Router (Contivity) via Nortel provided and supported software (i.e., no 3rd-party software required).
• Allows end-users to roam across network boundaries (e.g., from wireless LAN to fixed LAN) without breaking the secure VPN connection and disrupting end-user applications.
• Enables administrators to customize and mass-distribute configurations to users; optionally, can auto-launch when connecting, with no end-user software load required
• Supports load-balancing, failover, and LZS compression for optimum user xperience
• Integrates with complementary security, authentication, and access control products (Verisign, Entrust, Baltimore, etc.)

Nortel 1750 VPN router

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Nortel VPN Client