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Best Products 2007

Six products worth a look-see -- surprisingly

Network World Lab testers didn’t expect much from these products, but once they got them in their labs, they discovered surprisingly good features or performance
By Julie Bort , Network World , 02/26/2007
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Network World Lab testers didn’t expect much from these products, but once they got them in their labs, they discovered surprisingly good features or performance

NETDEVICES, SG-4 SERVICES GATEWAY

Category: Multifunction router

Highlights: Integrates firewall, denial-of-service protection, application-level gateway, intrusion prevention, IPSec VPN, Ethernet switching and other services.

The tester’s take: “Low-cost, multifunction, easily scalable/upgradeable, high performance for the price point,” says Anthony Mosco, test engineer for Miercom, an independent test lab.

Interesting to know: Former Cisco executives founded the company.

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JUNIPER, UNIFIED ACCESS CONTROL (UAC)

Category: Network access control (NAC) software

Highlights: Network access control software that complies with the open-standard NAC scheme, Trusted Network Connect.

The tester’s take:Juniper took the brain trust from Funk [Software], combined it with a lot of expertise in SSL VPN policy definition, and came up with a solid and credible first stab at the NAC policy-management problem,” says Joel Snyder, senior partner for Opus One, a security consulting firm

Interesting to know: The UAC software is really just an agent integrated with Juniper’s Infranet controller policy-management server, but it works with any 802.1X-enabled device.

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