With these capabilities, the Contivity 4500 Extranet Switch can be used to both build VPNs and meet general network access requirements without compromising either environment. What's more, it can be deployed in both the network center and the branch office, meeting the needs of small and medium enterprises as well as service providers. High Performance Leveraging its advanced Intel architecture, the Contivity 4500 Extranet Switch supports up to 5000 simultaneous tunnels without sacrificing network performance. Secure The Contivity 4500 Extranet Switch provides an integrated, flexible security architecture, ensuring that only an authorized user can access the network. All connections can be encrypted, ensuring privacy and security.
Additional security is available through unique filtering profiles for each user or group.
With support for leading Certificate Authorities such as Entrust, customers can easily incorporate VPN users into an existing security infrastructure. The Contivity 4500 Extranet Switch was designed both to incorporate VPN standards in use today, and to adapt as standards continue to evolve. The Contivity 4500 Extranet Switch supports industry-standard PPTP clients from Microsoft and third parties. It also includes a Contivity Extranet IPSec Client free of charge with an unlimited distribution license. This client is password-protected for added security, and allows split tunneling for simultaneous VPN, Internet and local network access.