RE: [FW1] Why choose Nokia? Here's why.

[Richard Peirce]

The Nokia appliance will also allow 10x the number of connections that NT and 3x the connections a Solaris box will. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Schindler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FW1] Why choose Nokia? Here's why. So many people talk about it being a simple box with an Intel processor.  Why should anyone pay as little as $1500 to as much as $18000 for a Nokia appliance? (Note: the 110, which will be available in October is quite inexpensive)   Full support of multiple routing protocols: IGRP, OSPF... (Tried to do that with NT lately)   Built in High availability.  How much is Stonebeat?  Check Point's solution?  ($12000 - $20000)   Replaces not only the firewall but the exterior router as well.  That saves me a good $2000 - $15000 dollars.   Pre-armored OS.  IPSO is a stripped down FBSD OS.  Instead of having to go out and read Lance Spitzer's armoring OS docs and implementing those solutions correctly, it comes pre-armored to a great degree.   These are just some reasons to use Nokia.  No one is telling you it is the best solution for every environment.  Current lack of gigabit support may be an issue.  One to be resolved soon however.  But these little things may cause you to buy another solution.  Many reports specify that 70%+ of all firewall solutions will be integrated by 2003.  Sun just bought a company so they can sell their own appliance solution because they know about this.   The OS wars will always continue and now we have hardware wars to worry about too.  Simply learn the true capabilities of each and know your own capabilities and go from there.  I run CP FW-1 on all 4 OSes: Solaris, NT, Linux, and Nokia IPSO and they all work great.  Some need a little more love and care than the others.(Linux)  But they are all fine choices.  If money is the issue.  Nokia CAN be a great savings.