The Main Features Of A Nokia Firewall

We are all aware that Nokia is a mobile manufacturing company, and keep ourselves updated with its latest releases. However, what most of the people does not know is that Nokia is also a big name in manufacturing internet security appliances, and are greatly meeting the needs of the customers. The Nokia firewall/VPN appliances, generally known as IP security platforms are available in the market for quite some time. They are very popular, as they are very advanced, and easily manageable, and offer enterprise-grade firewall, and VPN network security.

All the Nokia security appliances use a very secure operating system. Apart from this, they use technologies like check point VPN-1 UTM, and check point vpn-1 power in combination with the operating system for fulfilling the requirements of medium, and large enterprise data centres, service providers, carriers, and large ecommerce websites.

According to a research from IDC, Nokia holds third position in the market-share of Firewall/VPN appliances, after Cisco, and Juniper/NetScreen. Nokia has mid-size to large enterprise customers, who need site-to-site and remote access connectivity through enterprise-deployed mobile devices. The simplest devices are cheaper than the large enterprise, and service-provider class devices. The price range can be from $1000 to $600,000.

It is not at all astonishing to know that Nokia is on the third place in the market-share of firewall/VPN appliances, after Cisco, and Juniper/Netscreen. They have a very large customer base ranging from mid-size to large enterprise customers, who need site-to-site and remote access connectivity through enterprise-deployed mobile devices. Obviously, the prices of these products vary in technology making the simplest one most cheap. The normal price range of the products of Nokia falls from $1000 to $600,000.

The simplest firewall device by Nokia is the Nokia ip60. This integrated device is known for providing prevention, intrusion, firewall, VPN, and antivirus technologies. This device is used by both the small and medium-sized applications. The users of this device may be home workers, branch, remote offices, and businesses. The salient features of this device are wired, or wireless connectivity, centralised management, Nokia first call support, pre-licensed for easy out-of-the-box deployment, enterprise-class firewall/VPN, web filtering, and antivirus.

As for the mid to large sized companies, who are looking for robust performance, and leading technology solutions, Nokia has developed ip1220. This is a very high tech purpose built IP security platform. It contains latest version of Nokia ipso secure operating system in addition to the checkpoint firewall/VPN secure XL 2.x and the Nokia secure access system software. The most important features of this firewall/VPN device are Nokia encryption accelerator iv and up to 2gb ram, 4 x integrated 10/100 Ethernet ports, 2 x 6u CPCI slots for 4 PMC NICS, optional 2-port 10/100 mbps Ethernet, 2-port 1000basef multi-mode fibre (MMF) and 2-port 1000 BaseT (10/100/1000 mbps).

Nokia designs Ip1280 for large organisations, and internal network segments. This is famous for superior performance as well as high availability, and flexibility. The most important features of this device include; IP clustering, ipso operating system, check point vpn-1 power, VRRP, 24 gigabit Ethernet interfaces, HDD based storage, 4 GB ram expandable, quad-core CPU, multi-thread technology etc.

Perhaps, one of the most sophisticated security appliances for enterprise network is IP2255, which is high-performance, high-reliability firewall with advanced Check Point VPN-1 power, firewall forwarding (8.9 Gbps), 1GB flash memory, VPN forwarding, 1000 BASE-SX (1000 Mbps Ethernet), auxiliary DB-9 port for modem access, DB-9 console for CLI access and FW connections etc.