THE PROBLEM
Merchant marine companies, oil and gas
firms and captains of industry manage and
operate land based IPsec Virtual Private
Networks (VPN) to privately and securely
access corporate data. However, they have
not been able to extend this VPN capability
to their most valuable assets – their shipping
fleets, production platforms and private
yachts. The reason: VPN products that work
well for the terrestrial corporate VPNs
perform poorly over expensive satellite
Internet connections.
THE SOLUTION
Encore Networks provides
satellite VPN solutions that make efficient
use of expensive satellite bandwidth,
and provide end-to-end security across
modern marine VSAT terminal services
all the way back to the corporate Intranet.
Encore’s VSR-30™ provides firewall, routing
and VPN services in a single platform
– ideal for simple satellite based VPN
access for the corporate professional
or production manager. Encore’s BANDIT™ product provides the same functionality
with combined legacy protocol conversion
capabilities – enabling the remote transport
of RS-232 connected marine control and
diagnostic information, and SCADA information
from the oil and gas platforms.
PLUG-AND-PLAY
MARINE VPN
Extending the
corporate VPN to remote marine endpoints
has been a configuration and integration
nightmare to this point. It has required
the combined efforts of corporate IT
professionals, the satellite hub operator,
the marine satellite terminal reseller
and the installation technician on the
boat or remote production platform.
With Selective Layer Encryption, Encore’s
patented high performance method of providing
end-to-end VPN over satellite back to
the corporate Intranet, one unit is provided
to the corporation, and one to the hub
operator and the remote terminal finds
its own way back to the corporate VPN.
Encore’s VPN technology is compatible
with all currently deployed standards
based IPsec VPN devices, and has been
proven interoperable with commonly deployed
equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Avaya
(formally Nortel) in testing with the
VPN Consortium (VPNC).
Encore also includes legacy protocol
conversion capabilities, allowing corporations
to link and converge non-IP based terminals,
networks and devices to secure IP based
networks. As an example, this capability
would enable remote terminal access to
troubleshoot engine or HVAC control systems.
It would also provide production platforms
a way of to securely sending Supervisory
Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
information back to land based control
systems.
Encore is leading the way in IPsec VPN
based devices for marine networks.
NETWORK
CONFIGURATION
PRODUCT SNAPSHOTS
Encore BANDIT™
Integrated legacy protocol
conversion capabilities:
- SCADA – Oil/Gas
Control Systems
- SNA/SDLC – Corporate
Mainframe Access
- X.25 – Point of Sale,
Ships Purser
- Remote Telnet Server support for
non manageable devices, i.e. control
panels, and engine diagnostic
- Encore Network's exclusive patented
breakthrough Selective Layer Encryption
(SLE™) provides end-to-end satellite
VPN access to corporate Intranets
- Standard stateful inspection Firewall
with configurable port filtering and
DoS attack settings
- Compatible IPSec VPN Networks – Certified
by the VPNC
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