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Nokia Achieves Milestones Nokia is widely recognized for making and selling phones to a variety of markets, including to enterprise business professionals. Companies' IT departments want to manage and deploy devices without threatening their network integrity and the established operation of the enterprise. Nokia originally came out with security products nearly eight years ago knowing that businesses would want to do more with cell phone type devices, and that the devices' capabilities would increase over time. To ensure that IT departments were not scared away, Nokia prepared for this market by developing its security skills and establishing its credibility as a company that understands the issues companies face when deploying new technology. Today, the market for applications running on handheld devices is real, and Nokia is ready with a host of robust security products and applications that support Nokia and other companies' remote devices access to network applications. Understanding Remote Access Requirements The Nokia understanding of security's overall application to a network so that any device can connect will help IT departments offer users safer access to applications. Solutions must be thought of as a part of an entire environment, and remote devices cannot be effective if they are outside of the network security umbrella. With a clear understanding of network infrastructures and theimportance of security to this environment, Nokia can design devices, software and key applications (such as email) that allow the best balance in meeting the requirements of remote access without compromise. Systems such as Nokia IP560 are designed to deliver the necessary performance metrics to support modern traffic patterns that smaller remote devices force onto a network, and helps create a balance between effective and secure communications. This balance is achieved by companies who clearly understand the requirements, strengths and weaknesses of all the points within a network environment that can impact security and traffic flow, and can make adjustments to the various products to best reflect the desires of the markets for managers and users. The security appliances Nokia is producing are a very integral part of Nokia Enterprise Solutions overall product portfolio. Nokia first started designing and building network security appliances over eight years ago, effectively becoming the company to first develop a security appliance. Nokia has been at the forefront of the appliance market and has spawned an entire movement of companies trying to duplicate Nokia success. The success to date by Nokia has resulted in well over 200,000 IP appliances delivered into nearly every country of the world. Nokia has also made a significant commitment to the support of both Nokia appliances, software, and Check Point solutions. In 2005, Nokia provided the ability to extend support contracts for IP Security Appliances from three years to five years. This means with the average life of an IP Security Appliance being four years, and available support for an additional five years, a customer could in fact have a deployed Nokia appliance for up to nine years. Nokia IP560 The newest Nokia appliance is the recently announced Nokia IP560, but how important is this system to the Nokia heritage? This system is very important to the continued success of Nokia and it does what Nokia has been able to do for years - shifts the value proposition for an enterprise system by delivering a very powerful device at a great price. This is a system that shows the technical prowess and continuing refinement skills of Nokia in security appliance technology that is beyond current competitive products. Over the last six years, Nokia engineering and product management has learned a tremendous amount as to the necessary characteristics in hardware and software so they can deliver systems that are considered the most reliable and highest performing available today. For example, the Nokia IP530 was the first system that had wider buses to improve throughput, and the Nokia IP560 continues that tradition and in comparison is over 10 times faster at 6 GB large packet performance then the venerable Nokia IP530. New hybrid capabilities that offer both flash and hard disk drive technology in a single system, that no other company offers, provide reliability and performance. All of this is coupled with higher port density with this new system sporting up to 16 GigE ports in a small form factor. Changes in network traffic over the years have made Nokia modify its design goals. Changes of course have come from the different kinds of applications you see today versus what you would have seen even five years ago. These are evolutionary changes, and companies like Nokia have been able to get a much better understanding of what that network traffic really looks like so they can design systems accordingly. Network traffic today is of very mixed packet sizes, with much stronger leanings to an average size around 256 bytes or less. Web type applications have driven the packet size down and increased the need for faster connection rates. They may be driven down even further with the increase in mobile applications. Therefore, even though everyone measures their systems against the competition using large packet sizes, in reality the real performance that matters is in the average or smaller packet size. Consequently, Nokia has been designing systems that still perform extremely well in large packets, but are now also leading in performance in smaller packet sizes. The end results from all of this work is a system such as the new Nokia IP560 that delivers around 1GB throughput for small 64 byte packets. When you compare this kind of performance in a mid enterprise system it actually competes against large enterprise systems that cost three times as much as the IP560. Visit www.nokiaforbusiness.com for more information on how to grow your business with Nokia solutions.
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