VPN offers peace of mind: appliance makes difference in decision to deploy wireless - Wireless Security - Atomate Corp

Communications News, Nov, 2003

The Atomate road warriors now connect securely to the corporate network through the VPN capabilities. They save time by not having to download a week's worth of files to their laptops before each trip, or waiting for revised copies to be sere via e-mail. The team is able to communicate seamlessly with headquarters and remain an integral part of every project, as all data can be shared and accessed easily and securely.

"Our wireless VPN system gives us convenience with peace of mind," says Lira, "and that's simply priceless."

Wireless VPN security firewall

The Cable/DSL ProSafe Wireless VPN Security Firewall is an all-in-one package of a switch, access point, router and firewall, with VPN capability. It combines Ethernet and wireless connectivity through an eight-port switch with NAT routing and an 802.11 b wireless access point In addition to its ability to initiate up to 70 dedicated WAN-based IPSec VPN tunnels and up to 32 IPSec-based VPN tunnels on the wireless LAN, the FVM318 has enterprise-class security features, including stateful Packet Inspection firewall, intrusion detection system, and Web URL content filtering. Furthermore, it supports IPSec-based 56-bit (DES) or 168-bit (3DES), and 128-, 192- or 256-bit advanced encryption standard encryption algorithms, remote access VPN, site-to-site VPN and VPN pass-through functionality.

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