Avaya VSU 10000, Administrator'S Manual

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Introduction 1-1
Chapter 1 Introduction
Functional Overview
The VSU-10000 is a high-performance VPN gateway for large-scale, business-
critical virtual private networks (VPNs). Designed to provide the high capacity,
scalability and reliability required by enterprise and service provider networks,
the VSU-10000 supports Gigabit copper Ethernet connectivity over standard
CAT-5 cables.
Like other platforms in Avaya’s VPNware family, the VSU-10000 adds
compression, encryption, authentication, and key management to public network
data links to ensure privacy and integrity of corporate data, and to enable the
efficient and secure operation of virtual private networks (VPNs). It is designed
to perform complex operations, in real time, without compromising network
performance, and in many cases can actually increase data throughput. It is
capable of up to 10,000 simultaneous VPN tunnels.
The VSU-10000 supports a full suite of VPN services including: ICSA-certified
IPSec-based encryption, strong two-factor authentication (digital certificates,
SecurID
™
tokens, RADIUS, SmartCards), data compression, packet and user
authentication, IKE key management, Network Address Translation (NAT),
dynamic routing, and stateful inspection based packet filtering firewall.