MURRAY HILL, N.J. and WASHINGTON, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At
the Gartner Security Summit in Washington D.C., today Lucent Technologies
(NYSE: LU) announced the latest member of its firewall and virtual private
network (VPN) security appliances portfolio -- the VPN Firewall Brick(R) 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.
"This new member of Lucent's award-winning VPN Firewall portfolio gives
the small to medium enterprises a carrier-grade Bell Labs-developed
platform at a price point and in a configuration uniquely suited for their
needs," said Carlos Solari, vice president of Bell Labs Security Research
Center and the head of Lucent's corporate security strategy team. "This
device is designed to provide network managers with a cost-effective
solution enabled by a best- in-class security appliance that stretches an
enterprise's investment dollars through both immediate cost savings and
advanced features that streamline ongoing operational and management
costs."
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.
Availability
The VPN Firewall Brick 50 is currently available directly from Lucent
or through authorized resellers and distributors for a suggested list price
of $895.
Lucent VPN/Firewall Portfolio Overview
A winner of numerous industry awards, 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:
- Full-featured bridging: enables stealthy, depth-of-defense security that
conventional router-based firewalls cannot match.
- 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.
- High-performance packet processing: supports up to 4 million
simultaneous sessions, 1,000 virtual firewalls, and 7,000 VPN tunnels.
- 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.
- Plug-and-play deployment: implement secure mission-critical applications
without costly, time-intensive network reconfiguration
- 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.
- 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
- Virtual firewall and VLAN support: easily assign and enforce security
policies for diverse user groups.
- Granular bandwidth management: maximize service quality via flexible
class-based queuing (CBQ) technology, server-level and user-level limits
and guarantees.
- Carrier-grade reliability: native high-availability architecture with no
single point of failure.
About Lucent Security Solutions
As Lucent delivers on the promise of next-generation IP communications,
one of its top priorities is to ensure reliability and security of the
global communications networks and the people who use them. To support this
goal Lucent offers a comprehensive and integrated security portfolio and
architecture that integrates best in class dedicated security products,
network solutions that are security-hardened, professional consulting
services, managed security services - as well as promoting industry
standards around network security such as the ITU X.805 and ISO/IEC 18028-2
standards. All of these solutions are tightly integrated in Lucent's
offerings and are based on cutting edge security research led by Bell Labs,
Lucent's award- winning R&D research institution.
About Bell Labs
Bell Labs, the R&D division of Lucent Technologies, is the leading
source of new communications technologies. It has generated more than
30,000 patents since 1925 and has played a pivotal role in inventing or
perfecting key communications technologies, including transistors, digital
networking and signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications
systems, communications satellites, cellular telephony, electronic
switching of calls, touch-tone dialing, and modems. Bell Labs scientists
have received eleven Nobel Prizes in Physics, nine U.S. National Medals of
Science and eight U.S. National Medals of Technology(R). For more
information about Bell Labs, visit its Web site at http://www.bell-labs.com.
About Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and
software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell
Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility,
optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as
services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers,
while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks.
Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers,
governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent
Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit
http://www.lucent.com.
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+1-908-489-4373 mobile, pbenedict@lucent.com, or Wendy Zajack,
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wzajack@lucent.com, both of Lucent Technologies
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