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Encore Introduces High-Performance Broadband VPN Router for Satellite Networks

Posted on: Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 06:00 CDT

Encore Networks, a leading developer of integrated network security and access products, today announced it will introduce the VSR-1200(TM), a high-performance Virtual Private Network (VPN) router at Italy's SatExpo Conference and Expo. The new product is designed to deliver high throughput and encryption, simultaneously, over combined broadband satellite and terrestrial networks.

 --  Dedicated encryption engines boost the number of encrypted tunnels     that may be active at one time to 1200; --  Selective Layer Encryption (Patent Pending) prepares encrypted IP     packets in a format that permits TCP spoofing by Performance Enhancing     Proxy (PEP) features of satellite modems.      

The VSR-1200(TM) satisfies the increasing demand for broadband VPN services over satellite networks to deliver bandwidth-hungry applications and to provide higher availability as a disaster-recovery alternative. Multiple units can be interconnected together for load-sharing and higher level of redundancy. Applying Virtual Redundant Router Protocol (VRRP), the multiple VSR-1200s become a redundant, high-performance VPN router.

"Customers requirements for alternative and cost-effective broadband solutions to support their high bandwidth applications, as well as the ability to connect large number of remote locations, are driving the demand for connectivity via satellite networks," stated Abir Hnidi, Encore Networks Chief Technical Officer. "The release of the VSR-1200, with its patent pending Selective Layer Encryption capabilities, addresses this demand by allowing the seamless integration of satellite into enterprise networks and has reinforced Encore's commitment to the broadband satellite VPN market."

The VSR-1200(TM) design is based on a next-generation RISC processor running at 800 MHz and purpose-built VPN acceleration processors that support different encryption schemes such as DES, 3DES and AES. The hardware delivers encrypted throughput of up to 500 Mbps. This high-performance architecture can meet the network scalability and application security requirements of carriers, and also fits into central sites of large enterprise customers who operate their own VPNs. The VSR-1200(TM) provides two Gigabit Ethernet ports (LAN and WAN), one 10/100BaseT Ethernet port (DMZ), eight 10/100BaseT switched Ethernet ports and two PCI slots for future expansion.

The carrier class VSR-1200(TM) provides high-performance, end-to-end VPN solutions and includes standard features such as IP routing via Selective Layer Encryption, advanced QoS capabilities, a stateful packet inspection firewall, compression and optimized bandwidth utilization, embedded address management capabilities such as NAT and Private Address Translation (PrAT) In addition to its unique VPN features like SLE, the VSR-1200(TM) also interoperates with standards-based routers using the well-known formats for IPsec and GRE.

A high-port-density Remote Data Unit (RDU) module makes the VSR-1200(TM) an ideal fit for the smooth migration of legacy data applications to broadband IP networks. By performing protocol conversion and spoofing, the VSR-1200(TM) optimizes the utilization of satellite bandwidth: the router forwards only the data payload, while locally acknowledging polling protocols such as bisync, poll-select, ALC, SDLC and others.

"VPN routers for remote sites have become popular despite the large expense commonly associated with terminating large numbers of their encrypted tunnels at a central site such as a data center," said Bill Flanagan, president of Flanagan Consulting, Sterling, VA. "The VSR-1200 offers not only a compact and economical solution for high-volume encryption, it also has the unique ability to support TCP acceleration of those encrypted connections over satellites -- and it deals with those legacy protocols that seem impossible to avoid."

About Encore Networks

Encore Networks www.encorenetworks.com is a market leader in developing Secure, Converged, Broadband solutions for carriers and enterprise customers. This includes innovative VPN and security solutions for satellite, and terrestrial networks, evolutionary products for legacy data to broadband IP conversion, as well as advanced signaling and voice inter-working solutions for circuit-to-packet migration.

 Encore Networks Contact: Abir Hnidi Chief Technical Officer Encore Networks Inc. 703-318-4317 ahnidi@encorenetworks.com  Media Contact: Tony Crane Director, Marketing Services Encore Networks Inc. 703-318-4366 tcrane@encorenetworks.com

SOURCE: Encore Networks

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