Technical Details for Avaya VSU 100

Avaya VSU 100 ... benefits of virtual private networks.

VSU gateways are dedicated, hardware-based VPN gateways that overlay remote access and site-to-site VPN and firewall services on your existing enterprise network. VSUs provide all the benefits of VPNs without creating a performance bottleneck that slows your network to a crawl. Since all your VPN services integrate easily and transparently into your existing enterprise network, you enjoy easy access to network resources, which translates to increased productivity, and improved business efficiency. The VSUs employ the strong two-factor authentication, data integrity and confidentiality services offered by IPSec, using either digital certificates or pre-shared secrets. They also offer extended authentication mechanisms for remote users.

Unlike firewall or router-based VPN solutions, VSU gateways are designed specifically to handle high-bandwidth VPN traffic, using a dedicated, high performance IPSec packet-processing engine and real-time data compression. They offer wire-speed performance ranging from 16 Mbps to 100 Mbps for 3DES-encrypted IPSec traffic - and they can bridge at even higher speeds with non-VPN traffic. Operating by default in bridge mode, VSUs seamlessly layer into the network behind an access router or in parallel with an existing firewall.

The VSU-100 is a dedicated hardware-based VPN gateway that enables secure data communications over public IP networks such as the Internet for a small enterprise or small office environment. Designed to work with an existing IP-based WAN-access router, the VSU-100 provides all the services required to implement a virtual private network (VPN), including a network firewall, in one compact desktop enclosure. The VSU-100 intranets and extranets up to 100 IPSec site-to-site sessions.