NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: TIM GREENE ON VPNS 10/28/04 Today's focus: Fortinet delivers speedier firewall, VPN devices for SMBs
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Fortinet rolls out five firewall, VPN appliances for SMBs * Links related to VPNs * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Whale communications The SSL VPN of Choice for the End-User Looking to leverage your most valuable asset - your employee - to boost revenue? Lauded as the most secure SSL VPN on the market, Whale's appliance makes it easy. A cost-effective solution that is simple to use by everyday employees, it virtually ensures greater productivity. Read a case study. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=85835 _______________________________________________________________ NOW AVAILABLE! Networking for Small Business website Get all the combined Small Business advice, authority, and know-how from the experts at NW Fusion and PC World distilled into one powerful resource, the new Networking for Small Business website. Find everything your small business needs regarding Security, Networking, Broadband, Hardware, Software, and Wireless and Mobile technology at: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=85545 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Fortinet delivers speedier firewall, VPN devices for SMBs By Tim Greene Fortinet is rolling out five new, faster appliances that include firewall and VPN as well as a host of other security applications for small and midsize businesses. The Fortigate A-Series devices are the Fortigate-100A, 200A, 300A, 400A and 500A. These devices can be clustered to improve reliability by taking over for one another if one fails and load balancing if both are running. In addition to firewall and VPN, the devices support virus scanning, intrusion prevention, URL filtering and spam filtering. This new hardware is a follow-on to earlier Fortinet appliances with the same product numbers only without the A designation. The new boxes are more powerful than the old ones resulting in faster firewall and VPN speeds as well as performance for the other security applications. For example the VPN throughput of the Fortigate-100 is 25M bit/sec and for the Fortigate-100A is 40M bit/sec. The VPN speed of the Fortigate 500 is 90M bit/sec and for the 500A is 150M bit/sec. The devices have dual WAN ports allowing customers to plug them in to alternate service providers or use separate lines to the same provider to carry different sets of applications. They also have a DMZ port to create a secure network segment for mail and Web servers, for example. All the new models include a four-port switch, and the 300A, 400A and 500A all support Gigabit Ethernet. The other two support 10/100 Ethernet connections. The new boxes ship in November and range in price from $1,700 for the Fortigate-100A to $10,000 for the Fortigate-500A. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Tim Greene Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering virtual private networking gear, remote access, core switching and local phone companies. You can reach him at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Veritas IDC White Paper, Distributed Applications Performance Management Performance management of distributed applications continues to grow in complexity, keeping pace with this constantly changing environment is a challenge for IT and performance management software vendors alike. Learn how the Veritas i3 Approach can be the foundation for your organization's Application Performance Management strategy. 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