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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Breaking News - Networking:
Bintec Ships New VPN Access Line
Bintec Access Networks is shipping its new VPN product family for setting up
IP-based secure remote access infrastructures. The new range offers flexible,
high-availability VPNs with advanced load balancing and multi-level backup to
connect remote sites, branch offices, teleworkers and mobile employees.
Web services, utility computing, .NET, CPU harvesting and distributed
computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
computing umbrella. Gt04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing conference
targeting industrial and commercial users -- will gather experts, and outline
strategies and road maps for Grid deployment. For more information, visit
www.gt04.com.
Grid computing is here!
The VPN Access line includes five different models with support for five 5 to
1,000 secure connections, to meet the needs of all sizes of company from SOHOs
through SMEs to large corporate businesses. Prices range from £280 for the VPN
5 to £5,250 for the VPN 1000 (exc. VAT) and are available through distributors
Wick Hill and Spot Distribution.
The Bintec VPN Access line offers the latest AES (Advanced Encryption
Standard) encryption up to 256 bits in length and supports unique user
certificates for setting up a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) between company
locations. Load balancing manages and distributes data traffic and in the
event of a line failure, multi-level backup options guarantee continued
communication using broadband ADSL, SDSL or ISDN, GSM and GPRS mobile networks
or standard analogue connections. Bintec's new "heartbeat" function constantly
monitors the availability of VPN tunnels to activate backup options
automatically.
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