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Nortel will make its expected entry into the markets for unified WAN/VoIP/security routers and application acceleration this week at Interop Las Vegas.
Slideshow: Take a closer look at Nortel's new WAN router
A new WAN router for corporate branch offices includes integrated security and VoIP features, with options to remote IP phones and VoIP applications on a Microsoft- or Nortel-based VoIP network. Nortel's acceleration device is targeted at speeding performance of Web-enabled enterprise applications, such as Microsoft Outlook, IBM WebSphere or SAP. The product push advances Nortel's product menu in the enterprise, but some analysts say Nortel will have a hard time going against competitive gear from Cisco, Juniper and F5 in consolidated branch and acceleration.
Nortel's Secure Router 4134 includes technology from the company's joint development deal with Microsoft, and will include a forthcoming gateway card, which will allow the box to act as a remote-office gateway for Microsoft's Office Communication Server (OCS) — a VoIP, messaging and collaboration server. The OCS blade, due later this year, will act as a gateway to a centrally hosted OCS server, and not as a stand-alone version of OCS running on the router.
Another optional VoIP blade for the Secure Router 4134, also due later this year, includes localized version of Nortel's Communication Server 1000 IP PBX server. This module would synchronize with a centrally hosted CS 1000 server, and provide the branch with local VoIP features, call control and PSTN connectivity in case of a WAN link failure, or central CS 1000 failure.
In addition to the two forthcoming, specialized blades, the Secure Router 4134 combines Nortel's Contivity VPN and firewall technology, with its Tasman-based WAN router platform, as well as integrated LAN switching options for branch offices.
Nortel is also entering the Web application acceleration market at Interop with the launch of its Nortel Application Accelerator 510 and 610 appliances. These devices, intended to compete with Web accelerators from F5, Citrix/Netscaler, Radware and others, would sit in front of a bank of Web servers and provide data compression, protocol offload and content caching. This could allow a pool of servers providing Web access to SAP, Microsoft Outlook, IBM WebSphere, or other platforms, to operate as much as 20 times faster, Nortel claims.
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