Nokia Extendable Security Appliances
By Farzaneh Yassini- Product Marketing Manager, Nokia

Like so many other factors changing in our world, the firewall market is also evolving. The new trend is leaning toward one that extends security appliance functionality and offers stronger investment protection. Security appliances are doing more and are designed with features which can extent product life. This integrated and extended network security platform approach will provide customers with improved security and lower total cost of ownership. As proof points, Nokia is introducing Nokia IP290 security platform – delivering a unified threat management (UTM) platform ideal for small office/branch offices and extended enterprises and Nokia IP690 with a new hardware design supporting multi-core and multi-threading technology and allowing further expandability and performance improvements through add-on interface cards and software upgrades.

Nokia IP290

New security threats, such as viruses, worms and malware are affecting business uptime, and IT resource constraints are driving the need for simple security appliances that mitigate multiple threats. Purpose-built to support advanced security solutions such as unified threat management (UTM) and intrusion prevention (IPS), Nokia IP290 provides performance, expandability and the full set of Nokia secure OS and management tool benefits to secure small and branch offices.

Nokia IP290 multi-purpose security platform is a powerful yet cost-effective security appliance supporting traditional firewall and next generation security applications such as IPS and UTM – including firewall, VPN, intrusion protection, anti virus and web filtering. The small form factor design allows for side-by-side redundancy in a single 1RU space providing a low-cost/high availability solution ideal for IP Clustering or VRRP technologies. Nokia IP290 is ideal for small office/branch offices and extended enterprises that require robust performance combined with simple remote management and high reliability at a low total cost. Nokia IP290 offers the same level of protection in remote locations as in the corporate office, combining market-leading Nokia hardware design and quality with Check Point VPN-1 UTM software and Nokia IPSO™ OS for maximum security, high availability, reliability, affordability, and manageability.

Key Features

• In one compact Nokia appliance, IP290 offers UTM capabilities that go beyond traditional firewall/VPN to include anti-virus and URL filtering
• Six ports of 10/100/1000-Base-T (RJ45) Ethernet
• Optional add-on interfaces include 2 port 1000-Base-X and 2 port 1000-Base-T Ethernet
• Flexible architecture of Nokia IP290 allows IT to granularly expand the platform to meet the needs of a growing business
• Modular design allows field upgradeability without the need to de-rack the system for maximum uptime
• Renowned Nokia hardware design, optimized for security application performance, coupled with Nokia IPSO OS and management tools for an appliance purpose-built for small companies and branch offices
• Offers advanced features like IPSO Flows, VRRP, Clustering and powerful CLI scripts and GUI interface
• Slide-out tray for easy serviceability

Nokia IP690

Enterprises and service providers are faced with a variety of security challenges today. Threats are becoming more sophisticated, security solutions need to perform deeper packet inspections, changing traffic patterns demand higher appliance throughput performance across all packet sizes, and reducing IT costs and expenses mean organizations need higher return on their network security investments. Nokia IP690 was designed with these concerns in mind.

Nokia IP690 is the first Nokia security appliance to deliver a new hardware design supporting multi-core and multi-threading technology, allowing further expandability and an order of magnitude performance improvement through add-on interface cards and software upgrades. You can deploy now and expand capacity as needs grow, without costly hardware forklift upgrades. This versatile, purpose-built platform is designed to meet the most demanding network requirements for large enterprise firewall security. It features excellent price performance for mixed-packet-size real-world network traffic and for networks that need robust performance for firewall and VPN traffic. Nokia IP690 can also be deployed in high availability environments with support for Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and Nokia IP Clustering, delivering enhanced business continuity.

Nokia IP690 extends network security capabilities through an optimized, expandable rack dense platform designed for supporting next generation security applications while delivering IT investment protection. By deploying Nokia IP690 this year, you will have opportunities to improve and upgrade the solution at the time of choice. First, through updating Nokia IPSO, you will be able to take advantage of the multi-core architecture and improve overall system performance. Second, through the add-on Accelerated Data Path interface, customers get a further boost in performance for small packet throughput. And Nokia IP690 is ready to support next-generation, multi-threaded security applications.

Key Features

• New hardware design supporting multi-core, multi-threading technology
• Optimized to run computationally intense features of Check Point VPN-1 and VPN-1 UTM firewall applications
• 2 GB RAM (expandable to 4)
• Flash or hard disk drive (HDD) based
• 4 GB compact flash for flash based systems
• 40 GB HDD (optional 2nd drive available)
• Redundancy and port density for large enterprise demands
• Slide-out tray for easy serviceability
• Redundant, hot swappable power supplies
• 4 front-facing PCI expansion slots, supporting up to 16 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
• 4 Port 1000 Base-T interface card (pre-populated)
• Nokia IPSO™ operating system, designed for network security
• Includes SecureXL Check Point VPN-1 and Check Point VPN-1 UTM traffic acceleration
• Includes VRRP and IP Clustering HA functionality
• Includes dynamic and multicast routing
• Nokia Network Voyager and Cluster Voyager WebUI for local and remote administration