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Secure Convergence Solution

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Enabling Secure Convergence across Enterprise Boundaries

Secure Convergence Solution
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Enterasys Secure Convergence Solution provides the foundation for successfully building a standards-based converged network environment. As applications like voice over IP (VoIP), unified messaging, video and storage over IP are being considered for implementation in the enterprise network, best-effort availability services and traditional security methods are no longer sufficient to support these new real-time and collaborative applications. The Secure Convergence Solution is a key solution of the Secure Networks offerings.


Secure Convergence Benefits
  • Predictable and uninterruptible business communication
  • Secure and intelligent services for convergence applications
  • Prioritization of business critical systems, threat minimization and containment
  • Simplified and efficient Moves-Adds-Changes through convergence endpoint detection and automatic endpoint provisioning
  • Identify specific applications and protocols on the network
  • Secure firewall traversal for convergence protocols
  • Services mapped to communication flows between people rather than to packets
  • Visibility into the network from a single control point
  • Addresses industry security issues and requirements
  • Enforcement of regulations such as E-911, CALEA
  • Security to all aspects of the business network environment
  • One visible, understandable networked business for all communications needs
Why Enterasys

Enabling Secure Open Convergence across Enterprise Boundaries

  • Enables a standards-based approach to convergence
  • Provides more choices, higher value generation, and less operational cost when deploying convergence applications
  • Secures the enterprise network to ensure an advanced level of availability and business continuity necessary for convergence applications
  • Enables advanced secure communication services across enterprise boundaries
Key Features and Services

Secure Convergence Solution:

Provides advanced security capabilities to protect against:

  • Denial-of-service attacks targeting convergence application assets
  • Voice service theft
  • Eavesdropping (Man-in-the-Middle attacks)
  • Unsecured firewall traversal of convergence protocols
Provides intelligent management capabilities that enable operational efficiency through:
  • Centralized and completely automated granular control
  • Automatic convergence endpoint detection
  • Enables policy enforcement down to the user and device level
Provides business continuity and high-level availability through:
  • Prevention of voice service degradation despite security events that cause overall network degradation
  • Multiple levels of redundancy at the network, system and device layer
  • Support of IEEE 802.3af Power-over-Ethernet
Greater investment protection and forward compatibility
  • Interoperability with multiple vendor solutions
  • Solutions certification with convergence vendors (Siemens, Lucent, IBM, Avaya, Mitel and many others)
  • Forward compatibility through focus on standard protocol support
Implementation

The Secure Convergence Solution provides a foundation for the convergence of applications onto the enterprise network. Most convergence applications require more advanced network services than regular data applications in order to be implemented successfully in an enterprise environment. These services must extend beyond basic Quality of Service and bandwidth management. Convergence applications require a secured network environment to ensure a level of availability that targets Five Nines reliability found in the traditional voice world. This ensures continuity, compliance, and control of the environment. Secure Convergence provides a set of advanced services that provide specialized security and ease the complexity associated with the management of convergence applications.

Special policy architectures are created that describe the necessary rules and services for convergence applications. Once the services and rules for convergence applications are identified and defined, they are leveraged to build the appropriate configuration in NetSight™ Atlas Policy Manager, Enterasys’ graphical, easy-to-use, policy management tool. In NetSight Atlas Policy Manager, the convergence application’s guidelines are constructed into a policy profile, which is distributed to the network infrastructure from a centralized point, literally through a single mouse click. Dragon detection intrusion and response system ensures continued availability to end-points and the elements of the network by detecting and containing the threat.