Avaya VSU 5 Pro

Avaya VSU 5 Pro ... enhancing 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.

VSUs are centrally administered and configured using the VPNmanager policy-based management application. They support remote access services with the VPNremote desktop VPN client software. VSU Gateways provide powerful levels of performance, manageability and scalability. Whether managing thousands of remote access users, or delivering Voice over IP with service level agreements, your network can perform better, faster and more reliably.