Dulles,
VA. September 28, 2004 – Encore Networks,
a leading developer of integrated network
security and access products, today announced
it will introduce the VSR-1200™, 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 prepares encrypted
IP packets in a format that permits TCP
spoofing by Performance Enhancing Proxy
(PEP) features of satellite modems.
The VSR-1200™ 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.
According to Infonetics Research, the
combined VPN market will grow from last
year's $18 billion to a value of $38
billion in 2008. Demand for VPN security
services will also grow from $3.1 billion
in 2003 to $7.7 billion in 2008. Of this
security sector, Northern Sky Research
forecasts the number of global IP VPN
Satellite sites will grow from the current
number of fifty thousand to almost three
hundred thousand in 2008 and will be
dominated by the large enterprise market.
“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 patented
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™ 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™
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™ 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™ also
interoperates with standards-based routers
using the well-known formats for IPsec
and GRE.
Encore’s feature-rich ELIOS™ operating
system in the VSR-1200™ provides interoperability
with all known methods of TCP acceleration
for satellite circuits. Compatibility
with all satellite modems ensures smooth
and easy deployment across multi-vendor
satellite and terrestrial networks. This
seamless SW architecture ensures backward
compatibility and future interoperability
with other Encore Networks VPN products;
BANDIT™, BANDIT™-Plus, BANDIT™-IP and
VSR-30™, which have been certified by
VPN Consortium (VPNC)
A high-port-density Remote Data Unit
(RDU) module makes the VSR-1200™ an ideal
fit for the smooth migration of legacy
data applications to broadband IP networks.
By performing protocol conversion and
spoofing, the VSR-1200™ 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."
Available in 4Q04, the VSR-1200™ carries
a list price of $11,995. |
