At 13:34 28/09/95 -0500, Ken Hardy wrote:
>Here's a press release about an ATM `firewall' product. I'm providing
>this for informational purposes only; I've no relationship with this
>company and no knowledge of this product.
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>-KH
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Hi, I am Bobby Yan from NERA (SEA) in Singapore. We are the distributor for
FORE Systems ATM switches in Singapore. As such I will be greatly
appreicated if you could sends me more information
on ATM Firewall products and its technology used...
Thanks You
Bobby Yan
Senior Customer Support Engineer
NERA Telecommunication (SEA) Pte Ltd
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>NSC DEMONSTRATES FIRST ATM FIREWALL SECURITY AT NETWORLD+INTEROP
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>ATLANTA, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Network Systems Corp. (NSC), a
>wholly-owned subsidiary of Storage Technology Corp. (NYSE: STK),
>demonstrated at the Networld+Interop trade show this week the first
>security firewall for ATM networks. Industry ATM and security experts
>readily recognize that IP traffic running over ATM is open to tampering
>and theft. NSC's ATM firewall provides robust security for
>departmental and near-term pure ATM networks, as well as IP over ATM
>networks.
>
>"Companies moving to ATM are becoming increasingly aware that ATM
>networks are wide open to security breaches," said Tom Gilbert,
>director of marketing, internetworking. "Nearly all network security
>breaches are conducted using IP. Traditional IP firewalls require
>packet reassembly for ATM networks. This has the disadvantage of
>introducing latency and is a performance bottleneck for otherwise high
>performance ATM networks. That means that most IP traffic traversing
>ATM networks is unprotected."
>
>The device demonstrates IP firewalling at full duplex OC-3 (155 Mbps)
>speeds without reassembling cells into packets, for a total of 300,000
>packets per second. It also performs hardware firewalling at a
>constant 15 microseconds per cell.
>
>The ATM firewall technology will be further developed in a product to
>be introduced in the second quarter of 1996, the company said. The ATM
>firewall is being demonstrated in NSC Networld+Interop booth #868.
>
>Minneapolis-based Network Systems Corp. provides comprehensive
>solutions for implementing high performance secure enterprise
>networks.
>
>For more information on NSC secure internetworking products, contact
>NSC at 800-NETINFO ext. 220 or via the Internet at
>http://www.network.com. Media, contact Paul Payack, NSC, at 612-424-
>1555 or pjjpayack @
network .
com, Pam Cronin, NSC, at 612-424-1508, or
>Mary Ellen Amodeo, Shandwick, 612-832-5000 x375 or
>meamodeo @
shandwick .
com .
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