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Quick Takes: VPNcon roundup

Wes Simonds, Assistant Site Editor

WatchGuard and Alternative Tech link up

WatchGuard Technologies, Seattle, Wash., announces a new distribution agreement with Alternative Technology. Watchguard, which recently shipped a new VPN appliance the company said could scale up to as many as 20, 000 tunnels, will be working with Alternative to offer its products in enterprise-class packages throughout the US and Canada.

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CipherOptics names new CEO

CipherOptics, Raleigh, N.C., announces a new CEO in former Cisco executive Ron Willis, who will be taking the reins from co-founder Mike Doss. The company has also recently released a new security gateway designed to provide encryption of all data at full Gigabit Ethernet wire-speed. The CipherOptics Security Gateway uses Triple DES (3DES) encryption to facilitate IP site-to-site VPNs in existing Gig E networks, said the company, at a price point unmatched elsewhere in the market.

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AdTrans unveils two new VPN products

AdTran, Huntsville, Ala., introduced two new VPN solutions to the company's product suite, the NetVanta 2050 and 2400. The NetVanta 2050 is a VPN/Firewall appliance designed for the work-at-home telecommuter or a small office supporting up to 15 users and up to 5 IPSec VPN tunnels. The NetVanta 2400 is an IPSec compliant gateway designed for large corporate needs with support for 1,000 secure tunnels.

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MegaPath, Netscreen team

MegaPath Networks, Pleasanton, Calif., is using products from NetScreen Technologies to offer what the company said is cost-effective managed security services. The MegaPath VPN service will be "tightly integrated" with NetScreen's high-performance security appliance, which bundles a firewall, VPN service, and traffic management into one device, it said.

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Cisco unveils VPN suite

Cisco Systems, San Jose, Calif., announced its Unified VPN Suite, which the company claims provides "the industry's most complete set of Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN technologies, integrated across Cisco's core and access platform portfolios." Unified VPN delivers new protocols such as Any Transport Over MPLS and Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol version 3.

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