Summary


The Nokia Security Platform consists of six enterprise models, from the IP120 to the IP740. All offer a wide range of features and hardware specifications, and it is easy to find something that fits the network architecture of both the small office and the largest ISP's or Telco's. The primary feature points that distinguish one model from another include direct WAN connectivity (IP330 and up), 16 or more network interfaces (IP400 series and up), Gigabit Ethernet (IP530 and up), and hot-swappable or redundant components (IP650 and up). All the devices are based on the Nokia IPSO operating system, and all of them can be almost entirely configured through Nokia's intuitive Voyager Web interface. These appliances' ability to function as full-fledged routers, with WAN support and support for many of the most common dynamic routing protocols, means that they can function as a drop-in replacement for the commonly seen "border router-firewall" configuration. The rack-mountable appliances are becoming very popular for use in high-availability VPN deployments, where they are configured in pairs with VRRP and Check Point's gateway clustering.

Nokia has implemented a feature called Firewall Flows, which works with FW-1 and can dramatically improve firewall throughput for most types of traffic.

Administration of the IP series devices can be easily accomplished several ways: using the Voyager tool through a graphical browser, using the Voyager tool through the text-mode browser Lynx, and through command-line utilities such as iclid or even the standard UNIX shell. Nokia has hardened the IPSO operating system, which is based on UNIX; as a result, these devices are ready to run out of the box (after network configuration, of course). Nokia also has a product called Horizon Manager that enables remote, centralized administration of multiple devices.




The Best Damn Firewall Book Period
The Best Damn Firewall Book Period
ISBN: 1931836906
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 240

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