LEGATO SYSTEMS DEPLOYS WORLDWIDE VPN USING NETSCREEN SECURITY APPLIANCES.NetScreen Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:NSCN NSCN National Socialist Council of Nagalim NSCN Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature NSCN Navy Satellite Control Network ), a developer of ASIC-based Internet security systems and appliances, has announced that Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTO LGTO Legato Systems (stock symbol) ), a worldwide leader in enterprise software management solutions, has selected NetScreen integrated firewall/VPN appliances to deploy its worldwide virtual private network. Legato has connected more than 50 of its worldwide locations, including offices in emerging global markets such as Beijing, New Delhi and Warsaw, using a variety of NetScreen security appliances. Legato's smaller, remote offices are using the NetScreen-5XP, while mid-sized and larger stand-alone offices are using the NetScreen-25 or the NetScreen-50 depending on the network requirements. These devices communicate with four Legato regional data centers using NetScreen-100s located in Mountain View and Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , Burlington, Canada and the Maidenhead location in England. "NetScreen's products are flexible, meet our performance requirements and are easy to deploy to our remote offices and users," said Bill Maguire, chief information officer, Legato Systems. "Legato's IT division has been able to dramatically increase the number of offices connected to our intranet from nine to more than 50. By deploying 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. technology globally using NetScreen products we have successfully reduced our recurring monthly telecommunications costs which is generating millions of dollars annually in expense savings." Legato moved its Concurrent Versions System (programming) Concurrent Versions System - (CVS) A cross-platform code management system originally based on RCS. CVS tracks all revisions to a file in an associated file with the same name as the original file but with the string ",v" (for version) appended to the filename. (CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. ), NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System and FTP traffic from its frame relay network to the Internet, increasing the engineering department's wide area network (WAN) traffic throughput by 22 times while lowering the cost of a megabit of WAN transport four times in the United States and as much as 16 times internationally. Additionally, for Legato's offices that did not already have Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL) or cable modem connectivity, Legato eliminated the last mile problem for always-on broadband connections by tunneling its VPN traffic through DirecPC satellite connections. This application, based on the award-winning NetScreen-5XP, turned a connectivity problem for Legato's remote workers into a fixed cost broadband VPN solution. "The strength of our products enables our customers to continuously discover ingenious ways to deploy them," said David Flynn, NetScreen vice president of marketing. "Implementing our appliances through DirecPC provides an elegant solution for remote offices looking to realize the business value of a VPN and do so in an innovative, cost-effective way." |
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