Celestix's RAS3000 Named Enterprise VPN ''Product of the Year'' by TechTarget's SearchNetworking.com.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2004 Industry's First Windows 2003 Powered Remote Access Appliance for VPNs Earns Gold Award in Enterprise 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. Category Celestix Networks, Inc., a leading developer of enterprise class security appliances, today announced that its RAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Remote Access Service) A Windows NT/2000 Server feature that allows remote users access to the network from their Windows laptops or desktops via modem. See RRAS and network access server. 3000, the industry's first Windows 2003 powered remote access appliance for VPNs, has won the Enterprise VPN "Product of the Year" designation in SearchNetworking.com "Products of the Year" awards. The RAS3000, which provides secure and affordable remote access for both wired and wireless VPN networks, earned the Gold award in the Enterprise VPN solutions category. "Our judges found ease of integration to be the biggest attribute of this product," said the editors. The editors also stated that the product can simplify management and reduce costs in a Windows environment (1) (upper case "W") Refers to computers running under a Microsoft Windows operating system. (2) (lower case "w") Also called a "windowing environment," it refers to any software that provides multiple windows on screen such as Windows, Mac, Motif and X Window. . "This award is a strong endorsement of Celestix's commitment to bringing users a new simplicity New Simplicity (in German, die neue Einfachheit) was a stylistic tendency amongst some of the younger generation of German composers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reacting against not only the European avant garde of the 1950s and 1960s, but also against the broader to enable cost-effective remote VPN convenience and security," said Yong Thye Lin, president of Celestix Networks. "The SearchNetworking.com award is particularly an honor since users in the panel underscored our overall company goals of providing easy-to-install, easy-to-use and money-saving security appliances." The "Products of the Year" awards are presented by the editors of TechTarget's SearchNetworking.com and were judged by a panel of industry experts, including the editors of the site, a select group of users, and independent industry analysts, with input from SearchNetworking.com members. Judges selected the winners from products announced and shipped between September 30, 2003, and October 1, 2003. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the editors of SearchNetworking.com, the winners "represent the best products in the industry," and were selected according to innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. About the RAS3000 The RAS3000 appliance builds upon Windows Server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. 2003's native VPN remote access technology by providing enhanced security, reliability and scalability. Each rack mounted Built into a cabinet that has a standard width of 19" or 24". All types of electronics and computing devices come in rack-mounted packages, including servers, test instruments, telecommunications components, tape drives and audio and video equipment. appliance supports up to 1,000 simultaneous VPN connections, and multiple appliances can be installed for even greater scalability. The total number of VPN clients in the enterprise can be unlimited. The RAS3000 also includes sophisticated management software that is entirely self-contained, offering features such as load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , real-time alerting and monitoring, and historical reporting. With the RAS3000 appliance, Celestix leverages market and industry standards to pass compatibility benefits and cost savings on to the purchaser. The RAS3000 appliance integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft infrastructure including the certificate, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Software that automatically assigns temporary IP addresses to client stations logging into an IP network. It eliminates having to manually assign permanent "static" IP addresses. DHCP software runs in servers and routers. , Dynamic DNS See DDNS. and WINS servers. The RAS3000 is the only remote access appliance that supports Active Directory authentication, eliminating the need to maintain a separate user ID and password database on the remote access server or elsewhere. The RAS3000 appliance's Windows-based operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. is optimized and hardened for VPNs. It removes any requirements to deploy a proprietary VPN client by intrinsically supporting all Windows operating systems, including Windows XP and Pocket PC 2002. The Celestix solution also makes it easy for enterprises to support end-users with wide-ranging client operating systems by simultaneously supporting multiple remote access VPN protocols such as PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) A protocol from Microsoft that is used to create a virtual private network (VPN) over the Internet. Remote users can access their corporate networks via any ISP that supports PPTP on its servers. and L2TP/IPSec. Pricing and Availability The Celestix RAS3000 Remote Access Appliance, including all software (Windows Server 2003, ActiveRAS VPN reporting, etc.), is priced at $5,995 with support for up to 1,000 concurrent connections. Customers may purchase the system through Celestix's global network of authorized VARs and resellers. About Celestix Networks Celestix Networks, Inc. is the premier developer of managed security appliances that deliver complete, ready-to deploy solutions. Celestix appliances reduce operational complexity and provide customers with less expensive, easy to use servers. The company focuses on developing specialized security appliances that are co-developed with strategic partners to provide the best "out-of-box" solutions to meet today's security needs. Founded in 1999, the company boasts a strong international presence, with offices in Germany and Singapore, and distribution in Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, China, the U.K., Holland, Denmark, Italy, Brazil and Mexico. For more information, please call us at 510-668-0700 or visit us on the Web at http://www.celestix.com. |
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