NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND JOANIE WEXLER ON WIDE AREA NETWORKING 09/23/04 Today's focus: WAN access router market gets shot in arm
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Routers help with migration to AES * Links related to Wide Area Networking * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Alterpoint Read the latest analyst report on Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) written by EMA's Dennis Drogseth. This report discusses the latest developments in the NCCM market, including an in-depth look at DeviceAuthority Suite, a comprehensive solution for configuring, changing, and controlling today's complex, multi-vendor IT network infrastructures. 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For more information and to register, visit: http://adserver.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=81724 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: WAN access router market gets shot in arm By Steve Taylor and Joanie Wexler Cisco has seen its hefty branch-office router share chipped away at over the past few years, in part by some niche low-end access players competing on price and in part by networking heavyweights. The company's recently announced Integrated Services Routers, described last time, are an attempt to keep those competitors at bay, at least temporarily. Cisco's ISR story is one of integration, simplification and wire-speed performance in the branch. Encryption acceleration is embedded directly into a processor on the motherboard, and optional voice processor modules also fit into motherboard slots (similar in form factor to adding memory to your PC). Competition-wise, Juniper, with its recently announced J-series enterprise WAN access routers and its acquisition of NetScreen, has perhaps the best competing integrated security story to tell. Nortel would seem to have the greatest voice-integration strengths on which to compete. 3Com (with partner Huawei) last week also announced some enterprise-class routers that have been deemed baseline-interoperable with Cisco (and Juniper) gear by The Tolly Group. But 3Com's 3000 and 6000 families don't seem to deliver anything unique from a feature or performance perspective, with the possible exception of MPLS support. This feature, though, appears to be support for MPLS tagging (a QoS marking feature), as opposed to support for an MPLS user-network interface. The latter would be more interesting from an enterprise future-proofing standpoint, because it would be useful once self-provisioning capabilities become available with IP VPN services. Meanwhile, smaller vendors such as AdTran often compete on price where basic routing features are required but enterprise budgets are tighter. AdTran announced last month a new WAN access router platform, the NetVanta 4000 series, along with a version of its operating system that supports Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Data Encryption Standard (DES) and Triple-DES. Likewise, the encryption acceleration processor on the Cisco's ISR motherboard works with Cisco IOS Software to supports AES, Triple-DES and/or DES. The multimode encryption support from both vendors enables enterprises to migrate to AES, now specified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as the Federal Information Processing Standard for encryption. This is helpful; many Cisco head-end devices also support all three types, for example, so you can run the algorithm already installed in your various locations, then upgrade remote-site "spokes" to AES as you can afford to. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Cisco, 3Com fire up WAN routers Network World, 09/13/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/091304routers.html Cisco under the gun? Network World Fusion 09/13/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/routers/006233.html Router row Network World Fusion 06/21/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/routers/005455.html Juniper tackles remote access security Network World, 08/30/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004juniper.html A Wider Net: Lighting up broadband Network World, 09/20/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092004widernettobacco.html Hughes aims to ease satellite VPN woes Network World, 09/20/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092004hughes.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Steve Taylor and Joanie Wexler Steve Taylor is President of Distributed Networking Associates and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Webtorials.Com. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials.Com <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the first Web site dedicated exclusively to market studies and technology tutorials in the Broadband Packet areas of Frame Relay, ATM, and IP. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future article topics. Reach her at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Alterpoint Read the latest analyst report on Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) written by EMA's Dennis Drogseth. 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