Steve & Intel Investors - New VPN Hardware introduced by Intel.
Nice ASPs on these:
"All of the products save the NetStructure 3125 are available now. The 3125 -- which takes up less rack space -- is due in November. Prices range from $3,495 to $20,995. "
How long will it be before AMD tries to snivel in on Intel's networking business?
Paul
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Intel introduces new VPN line
By Paula Musich, eWEEK
September 12, 2000 2:47 PM PT
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Intel Corp.'s Communication Products Group said today it will go after service providers with a new string of high-performance VPN offerings.
The new virtual private network gateway family will be marketed under the NetStructure product umbrella to hosting companies, ASPs (application service providers) and companies that offer VPN managed services.
The new VPN line takes Intel beyond the enterprise focus and remote-access emphasis of the Intel Express offerings that came out of the company's Shiva acquisition. The products emphasize much greater througput, a larger number of simultaneous connections and promised interoperability with other VPN gateways that implement the IPSec version 1.1 encryption protocol, according to Doug Smith, product line manager for Intel in Hillsboro, Ore.
"The explosion of broadband connectivity and the continued growth of the mobile worker put new demands on the VPN gateway, and we're seeing a need for disparate VPN products to talk to each other," Smith said.
The new offerings include a pair of high-end VPN gateways -- the NetStructure 3125 and 3130, which both support 95M-bps of throughput for 3 DES encrypted traffic and support up to 10,000 simultaneous tunnels. The LANRover Gateway plus, Intel's current high-end offering for enterprises, supports 12M bps and 1,000 simultaneous tunnels.
For mid-range applications such as regional branch office sites, Intel is adding the NetStructure 3120 VPN gateway, supporting up to 20M bps and 2,000 simultaneous tunnels. That compares to 4M bps of througput and 500 simultaneous tunnels in the current mid-range Express gateway. The performance of the new NetStructure 3110 small branch office VPN gateway is consistent with the current Express offering.
Intel plans to differentiate its new VPN gateways from competitive offerings from Cisco Systems Inc., Nortel Networks Corp. and CheckPoint by bundling in a VPN management suite, which includes the NetStructure Access Manager for subscriber authentication and authorization management, the NetStructure Reporting Tool for usage analysis, and the NetStructure VPN Client Deployment Tool for Web-based administration and client deployment.
Intel also bundles the BlackICE Defender personal firewall for VPN clients from Network ICE Corp.
All of the products save the NetStructure 3125 are available now. The 3125 -- which takes up less rack space -- is due in November. Prices range from $3,495 to $20,995.
Intel is at www.intel.com. |
