Virtual Private Networking Solutions

Nortel offers a variety of industry-leading VPN solutions that span the major VPN categories.

• Our enterprise IPSec solution addresses the needs of customers who require on-site VPN equipment, end-to-end encrypted tunneling and remote access capabilities bundled with value-add IP services.
• Our network-based VPN offerings (Services Edge Router 5500 and Passport 7000/15000/20000 Multiservice Switches) enable service providers to offer VPN service to thousands of customers simultaneously with resultant economies of scale.
• Our Optical Ethernet solutions enable service providers to offer Layer 2 VPNs that provide simple, direct and scalable connectivity between sites using the ubiquitous Ethernet protocol and building on Nortel Networks Optical Metro family of products.
• Our clientless SSL VPN solution enables enterprises to offer secure remote access to private applications using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology of existing web browsers.

Enterprises: Virtual Private Networking (VPN) enables enterprises to use the public network infrastructure (e.g., the Internet) for secure end-to-end communications. Using tunneling, encryption and authentication technologies, VPNs provide a secure path for sharing confidential information over an otherwise public or unsecured network.

Nortel offers both remote-access and site-to-site VPN solutions that can securely connect remote users and/or remote locations to one another, as well as to corporate headquarter sites while leveraging the cost efficiencies of the Internet.

Service Providers: Service providers globally are grappling with decreasing prices, commodization of services and the challenge of adding value-added services, which can be differentiated, sustained and can grow. VPNs are attracting increasing attention from customers and service providers. Consistently, Virtual Private Networking is listed in market forecasts as one of the highest-growth service solutions in the industry. A Current Analysis survey of more than 400 IT managers, ranked VPN as the #1 IP service planned for deployment in the next 12 months.

Managed VPN service enables service providers to deliver high-value, scalable, and evolvable services that can be differentiated in the marketplace. Enterprises subscribing to managed VPN services can benefit from the low capital cost, rapid scalability, painless upgrades and enhanced feature availability.

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