Altiga Networks Delivers Industry's First High-Availability Remote Access VPN; Innovator of Enterprise VPN Solution Delivers True Redundancy.FRANKLIN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 1999-- Altiga Networks today unveils its strategy to meet enterprise customers' need for high-availability remote access VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. services. VPN technology is poised to revolutionize the way in which businesses enable remote access to the corporate LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. . The Altiga VPN Concentrator delivers a custom-engineered platform designed to handle the demands of high usage, mission-critical remote access VPN deployment. Up until now, enterprises have been hampered in deploying large-scale VPN solutions due to not having a solid high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. solution. Incorporating the most advanced high-availability capabilities with a 'unique purpose-built for enterprise' remote access architecture, the Altiga VPN Concentrator Series allows customers to build a high performance, scalable, and robust VPN infrastructure to support their mission critical remote access applications. "Users today have zero tolerance The policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance and enhance deterrence. Since the 1980s the phrase zero tolerance has signified a philosophy toward illegal conduct that favors strict imposition of for failure. They don't want excuses, they just want it to work. Altiga understands the enterprise and the fact that corporations need redundancy built in to the solution before considering the deployment of a remote access VPN," stated Mark Freitas, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Altiga Networks. "Customers are starting to see products like ours as mission-critical so we're delivering high-availability and automated switchover switch·o·ver n. A complete shift, as from one system to another. to meet those needs." "The thought of a network failure keeps me up at night and I was hesitant to deploy a VPN for mission-critical applications. However, Altiga's redundancy solution is simple to implement and provides me with the uptime assurance that I need. The Altiga VPN Concentrator is now at the core of my network," said Craig Darling at Idexx Laboratories IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. or IDXX NASDAQ: IDXX is a multinational corporation engaged in the development, manufacture, and distribution of products and services for the veterinary, food, and water testing markets. . "Altiga is fulfilling the distinct VPN needs of the enterprise market through the delivery of complete high-availability solutions," said Ron Westfall, research analyst with Current Analysis. "The VPN Concentrator Series gives Altiga a competitive edge in the fast growing enterprise VPN market, since the VPN Concentrator platform supports the redundancy characteristics needed for LAN-to-LAN and remote access connectivity while working with a customers' existing infrastructure, thus eliminating concerns about introducing a weak link to the network." Altiga is the first VPN provider to deliver a comprehensive solution for high availability in VPN deployment. In an industry rife with vendor hype, overblown o·ver·blown v. Past participle of overblow. adj. 1. a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. b. claims, and superficial implementations, the Altiga VPN Concentrator Series product line "delivers the goods" as measured against the four key requirements areas of high availability VPN, including a purpose-built communications platform, high performance, VPN service offerings, and management facilities. VPN Platform End-users are assured that by using Altiga's embedded platform versus other PC-based systems, their systems are able to achieve the highest meantime between failures available in a communications environment. The platform provides for fully redundant power supplies, encryption modules, and fans. Unique to the industry, it is the only scalable platform to offer field swappable and customer upgradeable components. It also facilitates swapping of a failed unit and allows network managers to monitor critical components of the system, warning in advance of potential failure conditions. High Performance To deliver consistent operation as the number of users and application demands increase, the VPN Concentrator was specifically designed to connect broadband users, and to connect those hundreds or thousand of users with consistent high performance. Altiga Networks has set new industry standards with unprecedented performance, measuring six times throughput over the leading competition. In addition, the Altiga VPN Concentrator demonstrates unprecedented performance in both packets per second and low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as , reinforcing overall consistent performance across all users. Service Redundancy To fully deliver a redundant VPN service, Altiga offers large-scale deployment and backup that is transparent to end-users. The ability to flexibly deploy multiple units at different locations while having them function as one single service entity is critical to providing continuous service up time. In addition, units can be deployed at any point in the network topology See topology. for maximum flexibility in facilitating dynamic fail-over to an alternate unit in case of failure. Management Facilities The ability to manage a large-scale user community as well as remote offices from a central location in the network is essential to ensuring a VPN service with continuous operation. Altiga delivers monitoring and configuration functions, including the ability to change all system parameters without rebooting the VPN Concentrator. System alerts can be directed to pagers and/or email addresses for immediate notification of service outages. System administrators will appreciate the common user interface across Telnet, console, and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. . The Altiga VPN Concentrator Series The Altiga VPN Concentrator Series offers a comprehensive VPN product line, with its C10, C20, and C50 models, specifically focused at addressing bandwidth-intensive broadband connections. It is ideal for enterprise corporations that need to support the largest scale of remote users, from 100 to 5000 concurrent sessions, and remote offices while achieving the highest performance and redundancy. The connections are exemplary of emerging high-performance desktop applications, such as real-time graphics and integrated voice, video and data, as well as the new breed of high-speed remote connections, such as cable and DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary . Available now, pricing ranges from $10,000 to $50,000, depending on configuration. About Altiga Networks, Inc. Altiga Networks' VPN concentrator technology is designed for the convergence of dial-up and multi-megabit connectivity, delivering an unprecedented level of performance, scalability and service availability, while minimizing operating costs. Specifically designed for corporations that require secure access for their remote employees, partners and customers via the Internet, the Altiga VPN Concentrator Series harnesses the power of VPN by enabling widespread deployment of remote bandwidth intensive applications. Altiga's product solutions are compatible with DSL and router equipment from leading networking companies, including 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. 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