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The Salient Features Of A Nokia Firewall

By Jeremy Sandcastle

We are all aware that Nokia is a mobile manufacturing company, and keep ourselves updated with its latest releases. However, what most of the people does not know is that Nokia is also a big name in manufacturing internet security appliances, and are greatly meeting the needs of the customers. The Nokia firewall/VPN appliances, generally known as IP security platforms are available in the market for quite some time. They are very popular, as they are very advanced, and easily manageable, and offer enterprise-grade firewall, and VPN network security.

Nokia security appliances use a secure operating system. In addition, technologies like Check Point VPN-1 UTM and Check Point VPN-1 Power are combined with the operating system to make it fulfil the requirements of medium and large enterprise data centres, service providers, carriers, and large ecommerce websites.

According to a research from IDC, Nokia holds third position in the market-share of Firewall/VPN appliances, after Cisco, and Juniper/NetScreen. Nokia has mid-size to large enterprise customers, who need site-to-site and remote access connectivity through enterprise-deployed mobile devices. The simplest devices are cheaper than the large enterprise, and service-provider class devices. The price range can be from $1000 to $600,000.

When talking about the different firewall/VPN devices from Nokia and their extended prices in accordance to mid-size and large enterprise products, it would be very beneficial to learn about the products that Nokia is providing, and their features.

It is very important to know about the feature of the products that Nokia has made available in the market in the firewall/VPN devices market. The Nokia ip60 is can be called the simplest firewall device that Nokia has manufactured so far. The integrated product is aimed at providing prevention, intrusion, firewall, VPN and antivirus technologies. The device caters to the wide range of small and medium-sized applications. The common users of this device are home workers, branch, remote offices, and businesses. The important features of this device are wired or wireless connectivity, centralised management, Nokia first call support, pre-licensed for easy out-of-the-box deployment, enterprise-class firewall/VPN, web filtering, and antivirus.

For mid to large sized companies, who require robust performance, and leading technology solutions, Nokia has developed IP1220, which is a purpose built IP Security Platform. This device contains latest version of Nokia IPSO secure operating system in addition to the Check Point Firewall/VPN Secure XL 2.x, and the Nokia Secure Access System software. The main features of this firewall/VPN device include; Nokia Encryption Accelerator IV, and up to 2GB RAM, 4 x Integrated 10/100 Ethernet ports, 2 x 6U CPCI slots for 4 PMC NICs, optional 2-Port 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, 2-Port 1000BaseF Multi-mode fibre (MMF) and 2-Port 1000 BaseT (10/100/1000 Mbps).

For large organisations, and internal network segments, Nokia designed IP1280, which is famous for superior performance, coupled with high availability, and flexibility. The main features of this device include; IP clustering, IPSO operating system, Check Point VPN-1 Power, VRRP, 24 Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces, HDD based storage, 4 GB RAM expandable, quad-core CPU, multi-thread technology, etc.

The most sophisticated in security appliances for enterprise network introduced by Nokia is ip2255. It is a very high-performance, high-reliability firewall with advanced check point vpn-1 power, firewall forwarding (8.9 gaps), 1gb flash memory, VPN forwarding, 1000 base-six (1000 mbps Ethernet), auxiliary db-9 port for modem access, db-9 console for CLI access, and FW connections etc.

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