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NeoAccel Introduces First All-In-One SSL VPN Network Security Platform

 

San Jose, February 13, 2006 – With the new release of its SSL VPN-Plus, NeoAccel has broken the performance and functionality barriers that have kept SSL VPNs from supplanting conventional IPSec VPNs. NeoAccel’s SSL VPN-Plus software appliance is based on the company’s patent-pending Intelligent Connection Acceleration Architecture™ (ICAA™). The results are fewer dropped sessions and a vastly improved, consistent and more secure user experience, particularly in wireless LAN environments where significant packet loss can produce a 30x performance drain on the performance of conventional SSL VPN gateways.

NeoAccel partner Tomen Cyber Business Solutions develops and sells the Visual Nexus PC-based videconferencing system that can be deployed in conjunction with SSL VPN-Plus. "In today’s hostile environment, enterprises protect their computers behind firewall/NAT topologies; however, the standard H.323 videoconferencing protocol requires a VPN environment to traverse these firewall/NATs," explains Akio Kawaguchi, Marketing Manager for Tomen Cyber-business Solutions. "Unlike conventional SSL VPNs, NeoAccel’s SSL VPN-Plus opens a secure, high-performance tunnel for H.323 traffic to traverse multiple firewalls and NATs, while maintaining existing network security measures. We tested Visual Nexus with other SSL VPNs, but the other SSL VPN solutions suffered from poor performance. Only NeoAccel’s SSL VPN-Plus enables us to meet our service level agreements with performance of just 10 ms when used with 10 endpoints, while other SSL VPNs showed unacceptable levels of latency greater than 40 ms."

NeoAccel’s latest release of SSL VPN-Plus is the first partner-friendly SSL VPN product offering designed from the ground up as a software-based appliance via OEMs as well as a hardware-based appliance for resellers and enterprise end-users that prefer a ready-to-deploy system.

NeoAccel’s SSL VPN-Plus can be deployed to provide high-performance access to all IP-based applications, including Citrix, video teleconferencing systems, databases and other non-Webified enterprise applications that require low latency to ensure a high-quality user experience.

An OEM version of SSL VPN-Plus enables platform providers to deliver high-performance SSL VPN capabilities in an all-in-one network security appliance. The OEM version integrates the SSL VPN-Plus gateway with an IPSec VPN gateway, stateful packet-inspection firewall with NAT ALG support, multi-WAN link management, IEEE 802.1q VLAN support, static and dynamic routing, traffic monitoring, bandwidth management, configuration wizards, and Web-based management.

New features in tis release of SSL VPN-Plus include two-factor authentication using a USB key, clientless-mode Web access terminal for Windows file sharing and Telnet and SSH access, customizable user login and landing pages, a hardened security platform, and an extremely easy-to-use management console. The unique intelligent acceleration-triggered compression feature determines whether optimization will accelerate data transfers before invoking compression algorithms. The client-cleaning feature can remove cached data, stored password, and URL history as well as block copy-paste, printscreen and file-saving operations. A client SDK provides library and API calls to integrate SSL VPN-Plus functions inside custom solutions. Additional enhancements include certificate management, single-arm mode, an improved rule-based policy engine with application-level control, strengthened endpointsecurity policy control and management, improved support for user authentication and improved centralized user transaction logging.

SSL VPN-Plus runs on standard Intel-based servers as well as Intel IXP23xx network processor-based systems, which further accelerates SSL VPN performance by processing gateway tasks in parallel pipelines across individual microengines. Optional SSL acceleration is available with Cavium Nitrox co-processors.

SSL VPN-Plus is available in OEM, SMB, SME, and Enterprise Editions with support for up to 20,000 concurrent users and throughput of up to 950Mbps.

About NeoAccel

NeoAccel was founded by Michel Susai, the founder and former chairman and CEO of NetScaler where he invented and pioneered the patented Request Switching™ technology that accelerates application delivery to handle the bulk of today's commercial Web traffic. NeoAccel was founded with the vision to "Secure Everything™" through secure access from anywhere to anything, NeoAccel is delivering a breakthrough in simplified, full-access SSL VPN technology that enables more businesses to implement highly secure, scalable access with the native network performance of IPSec VPNs. NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus software platform overcomes the limitations that compel network managers and users to resort to cumbersome or insecure workarounds when faced with using conventional performance-limited Web security mechanisms. NeoAccel is headquartered in the Silicon Valley. Contact NeoAccel at www.neoaccel.com or info@neoaccel.com.

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NeoAccel, NAM-Plus, SSL VPN-Plus, Intelligent Connection Acceleration Architecture, ICAA, TSSL, and Secure Everything are trademarks of NeoAccel, Inc.  All other names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Frank Guerrero
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