Nortel Contivity Extranet Switch 4500

Nortel Contivity Extranet Switch 4500 ... industry-standard, full-function Routing Internet Protocol (RIP) routing protocol and integrates the industry-leading Fire Wall-1 from Check Point Software Technologies. This gives users all the essentials of VPNs: routing, tunneling, encryption, data compression, security and bandwidth management.

The Contivity 4500 Extranet Switch provides an integrated, flexible security architecture, ensuring that only an authorized user can access the network. All connections can be encrypted, ensuring privacy and security. Additional security is available through unique filtering profiles for each user or group. Compliance with the X.509 standard and certificates offers an extra degree of security for the authentication of Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) sessions. With support for leading Certificate Authorities such as Entrust, customers can easily incorporate VPN users into an existing security infrastructure.