Allied Telesyn Launches AT-AR750S-DP VPN Router in Asia Pacific
IT News Online Staff
2007-01-25
Allied Telesyn, a unit of Allied Telesis providing IP networking solutions, has launched its new AT-AR750S-DP secure VPN router in Asia Pacific. Designed with the needs of medium enterprises and Telco customers in mind, the AT-AR750S-DP offers significant advances in processing performance, Quality of Service, routing, remote connectivity and security.
"Unlike other secure VPN routers in this market space, AT-AR750S-DP not only can perform all three functions, Stateful Firewalls with NAT, QoS and IPsec VPN termination capability, it can also offer excellent performance with the mixed packet sizes seen in real networks," said Jason Phoon, Allied Telesyn Deputy Director for Product Marketing and Fulfillment in Asia Pacific.
The Stateful Firewall inspection with NAT, QoS, IPsec VPN (with AES 256 bit encryption) offers more than 35 Mbps at 72 byte packets and it also allows AT-AR750S-DP to achieve up to 195 Mbps IPsec throughput with bidirectional traffic. This level of performance enables secure site-to-site VPNs over multiple WAN interfaces while still firewalling the local network across multiple LAN ports.
Allied Telesyn QoS implementation enables the AT-AR750S-DP to dynamically identify high priority voice, video and application traffic, so that appropriate service levels can be maintained in congested networks. For further enhancement, Allied Telesyn Advanced QoS allows voice, video and data traffic to have QoS applied within individual IPSec tunnels, over GRE, as well as IPv6 to IPv4 tunnels.
The AT-AR750S-DP provides extensive IPSec-based VPN capability, allowing the interconnection of offices, remote tele-workers, and other users who require secure access to a corporate network. It comes with integrated hardware acceleration, which maximizes encryption throughput and removes the need to purchase a hardware upgrade package. Besides, AT-AR750S-DP is compatible with industry standard IPSec VPN clients.
On top of the hardware-based encryption, the AT-AR750S-DP comes with other advanced security features such as traffic filtering with event logging. The traffic filtering uses the source and destination address, port, protocol and TCP packet type to provide control over traffic that passes through the AT-AR750S-DP. Whereas a Stateful Inspection firewall provides an increased level of security and complements the packet filtering function. HTTP and SMTP proxies on the ATAR750S-DP provide improved control over web and mail communications.
To provide the maximum space saving, reliability and resiliency, AT-AR750S-DP comes with a dual hot swappable AC or -48V DC redundant power supplies packaged in the IRU rack mount chassis. These features combined with front-to-back cooling, make the AT-AR750S-DP perfect for the high-density rack environment where space is at a premium.
The AT-AR750S-DP also comes with a comprehensive suite of management features and is compatible with SNMP-based management packages. An extensive command set is available via the Command Line Interface (CLI), and a browser-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) is also given to simplify the AT-AR750S-DP configuration and management. The GUI offers access to default set-ups in key management areas and gives access to regional settings. Allied Telesyn's SNMP support extends to SNMPv3 to provide secure management.
The router's WAN Load Balancer enables it to combine bandwidth from multiple WAN connections for increased throughput, redundancy and reliable WAN connectivity. When a router simultaneously connects to multiple WAN networks, the WAN Load Balancer will distribute the traffic based on any one of a number of selectable balancing algorithms. A typical example would be a router that has two Internet connections each exchanging data to remote sites via different Internet providers. In this case, an outage limited to one network will not result in a loss of connectivity to these sites.
The Allied Telesyn AT-AR750S-DP is now available from the company's distributors throughout the region.
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