Alcatel-Lucent’s VPN Firewall Brick® is “Network Computing” Test Winner 2007

Alcatel-Lucent’s VPN Firewall Brick® is “Network Computing” Test Winner 2007

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has won this year’s two-part benchmark test of security appliances conducted by the German trade magazine Network Computing. Alcatel-Lucent’s VPN Firewall Brick® 1200 took first place in both the VPN test and the firewall and quality-of-service test, and came through as the overall winner.

The tests, conducted by the “RealWorld Labs” of Network Computing at the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund, Germany, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Bernhard G. Stütz, were designed to examine the security appliances of industry vendors for their suitability of high-performance protection of corporate networks and network segments. The tests looked at the performance of the appliances in VPN and in firewall mode, plus the quality-of-service (QoS). The RealWorld Labs team used a virtual test company from the automotive accessories industry with multiple sites and an Intranet, which was also accessed by partner companies.

VPN performance : In the VPN performance category, Alcatel-Lucent was the only vendor to achieve a B grade (on a scale from A to D, where A represents the top rating), and was thus significantly ahead of the rest of the field. In one series of measurements the VPN UDP throughput was measured. In an alternative throughput measurement, called “UDP mix” in the report, 50 percent of the respective total load was sent through the VPN tunnel unencrypted. In unidirectional VPN mode with 64-byte packets the VPN Firewall Brick® 1200 achieved a maximum throughput of some 25 percent, or 250 Mbit/s. Here Alcatel-Lucent set a very high standard. No other test appliance achieved this value.

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