BRAMPTON, ONT. - Nortel this week will unveil an appliance it says can help companies process secure Web transactions more than three times as fast than they could with the previous version.
The Alteon SSL 410 is designed to let companies complete 2,000 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) transactions per second, which could include secure credit card purchases over the Internet or file transfers over private extranets. The box also can maintain 16,000 SSL sessions, or users connected to a Web site with SSL encryption, per second. Comparatively, the Alteon SSL 310 could handle 600 encrypted transactions per second and 8,000 concurrent SSL sessions.
One other difference between the new and old box: Unlike the old one, the 410 is not compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), which many government organizations require.
The 310 could be made compliant by adding a FIPS daughtercard to the box - which performs the FIPS-based security encoding. That card does not work with the 410.
The 410 competes with products such as Cisco's CSS 11500, which can sustain about 1,000 SSL sessions per second.
The 410 costs $25,000.
Nortel also released Version 4.7 of the software for its Contivity branch office routers. The software can give corporate WAN managers the ability to add more security and traffic management services to their Contivity boxes such as stateful firewall packet inspection, quality of service based on Layer 3 Differentiated Services traffic prioritization, and VPN tunneling. This can eliminate the need to replace or add more equipment to secure WAN connections, the company says.
Contivity boxes start at $1,000 when configured with up to 50 VPN tunnels and 10M to 15M bit/sec of Triple-DES throughput.
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