(PM) VPN and Livingston

Al Hopper (al@logical-approach.com)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:32:52 -0500 (CDT)

I'm starting to get inquires from businesses that wish to run VPNs over
the Internet. I'm PM2/PM3/OR-U based (with Cisco 3640 for backbone
routing) and I'd like to keep it this way!

Does Livingston/Lucent have a plan for VPNs? Any kind of a rough
timetable? I'm trying to avoid purchasing dedicated VPN boxes and
getting into that headache situation. Is there a solution that I could
implement now, that would integrate into the planned Livingston VPN
framework at a later time?

Is there an encryption card that might be released in the near future
for the PM3? Will the OR-U (as it stands today) be able to participate
in a VPN solution without hardware replacement?

Since the encryption engine becomes a link in the communications chain,
I'd like it to be as reliable as the PM3/PRI and OR-U/ISDN combination
already is. Oh (not to start any OS wars), I forgot to mention I'm
Solaris (SPARC and x86) based.

Another piece of this puzzle will be SSH. This is already very popular
for encrypted telnet sessions.

Any thoughts/recommendations appreciated.

Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. al@logical-approach.com
(972)-379-2133 or (972)-849-5765. Fax 972-379-2134
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