NeoAccel Unveils Industry's First SSL VPN for VoIP Calls and Video Conferencing Between Multiple Corporations9 March 2006
NeoAccel, a pioneering innovator ofnext-generation Internet security solutions, announced its SSL VPN-Plus forReal-Time Applications. NeoAccel's SSLVPN-Plus provides injected latency ofjust 10 milliseconds (ms) for VoIP calls and video conferencing sessions,eliminating the performance problems that have until now made SSL VPNsunacceptable for real-time applications such as VoIP and video conferencingbetween multiple corporations.
"Until now, vendors and users of VoIP and video conferencing applicationshave largely avoided first- and second-generation SSL VPNs because theyinject so much latency, that call and video quality degrades tounacceptable levels," said Michel Susai, chairman and CEO of NeoAccel."NeoAccel understands the fundamental causes of the performance problemsthat cause SSL VPNs to diminish call and video quality, and our approach toproviding a solution that dramatically reduces injected latency to just10ms provides the cure. Our SSL VPN-Plus for Real-Time Applicationsprovides an overlay network for real-time applications, such as VoIP callsand video conferencing between multiple corporations, that eliminates the'network jitter' that cripples and devastates call and video quality withconventional SSL VPNs.
NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus for Real-Time Applications is the only SSL VPN thatdelivers telephone/TV-like Quality of Experience for secure VoIP calls andvideo conferencing sessions between separate corporations. NeoAccel's SSLVPN-Plus™ provides a secure overlay network essential for real-timeapplications such as voice and video, with the industry's lowest injectionlatency in the industry of less than 10ms.
In corporate network environments, one corporation's private IP addressesare not routable to another corporation's private IP addresses across thepublic Internet. To connect those disparate IP addresses requires anoverlay network, which is provided by NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus. In addition,conventional SSL VPNs suffer from unacceptable levels of quality-degradingpacket retransmission, which SSL VPN-Plus largely eliminates. Further,because SSL VPN-Plus operates at the kernel level, data transmission speedsare exceptionally fast. Finally, security for voice and video transmissionsis critical, which is a cornerstone of SSL VPN-Plus.
Tomen Cyber Business Solutions, the manufacturer of Visual Nexus, anadvanced-capability video conferencing system, needed a way to provide anoverlay network with security when a conference is established betweencorporations over the public Internet. The challenges were to find ahigh-security encryption system that was able to traverse corporatefirewalls and network address translation (NAT) delivered as a solutionthat would introduce minimal latency.
"After evaluating leading industry VPN solutions, both IPSec and SSL-based,Tomen felt that we needed to keep searching," said Akio Kawaguchi,Marketing Manager for Tomen Cyber Business Solutions. "When we foundNeoAccel, we discovered not only an SSL VPN solution that could traversethe firewall with NAT, but also a high-performance system with far lessincremental latency than all other available solutions.
"The industry has been using IPSec VPNs, which typically barely meet therequirement of no more than 20ms injected latency, but require substantialtechnical training and support," explains Kawaguchi. "SSL VPNs overcome thetechnical staff issues but suffer from high incremental latency of morethan 40ms. Tomen benchmarked NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus solution anddiscovered an extremely low level of latency for both encryption andtunneling of only 10ms. As a result, Tomen Cyber Business Solutions nowdistributes NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus as the secure overlay network solutionto our Visual Nexus customers."
NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus software appliance is based on the company'spatent-pending Intelligent Connection Acceleration Architecture™(ICAA™), which eliminates the TCP-over-TCP meltdown problem that resultsin dropped sessions and frustrated users and destroys the performance ofconventional SSL VPNs. The performance advantages of SSL VPN-Plus are vitalfor enterprise-class performance particularly in wireless LAN environmentswhere significant packet loss can produce a 30x performance drain on SSLVPN gateways.
The Enterprise Edition of SSL VPN-Plus for Real-Time Applications cansupport up to 20,000 concurrent users with high-availability throughput ofup to 950Mbps, and the SMB Edition gateways can support up to 500concurrent users. Optional SSL acceleration is available for leadingencryption co-processors.
Pricing and Availability
SSL VPN-Plus for Real-Time Applications runs on standard Intel-basedrackmount and IBM/Intel server blades and is available in software andhardware appliance configurations. Prices range from under $3,000 for theSMB Edition to more than $100,000 for the Enterprise Edition capable ofsupporting more than 20,000 of concurrent users.
About NeoAccel
NeoAccel was founded by Michel Susai, the founder and former chairman andCEO of NetScaler where he invented and pioneered the patented RequestSwitching™ technology that accelerates application delivery to handlethe bulk of today's commercial Web traffic. NeoAccel was founded with thevision to "Secure Everything™" through secure access from anywhere toanything, NeoAccel is delivering a breakthrough in simplified, full-accessSSL 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 thatcompel network managers and users to resort to cumbersome or insecureworkarounds when faced with using conventional performance-limited Websecurity mechanisms. NeoAccel is headquartered in the Silicon Valley.Contact NeoAccel at www.neoaccel.com or info@neoaccel.com.
NeoAccel, SSL VPN-Plus, Intelligent Connection Acceleration Architecture,ICAA and Secure Everything are trademarks of NeoAccel, Inc. All other namesare or may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact Information:
Peter HertanNeoAccel408.315.0209Email Contact
Steven BeedleZNA Communications831.425.1581, ext. 203Email Contact
SOURCE: NeoAccel
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