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January 29, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Dorado Software, Inc. (doradosoftware.com), a provider of
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network infrastructure software, today announced the launch of its Redcell
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Virtual Private Network Service Center (VPN SC), an integrated software
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solution that makes creating, deploying, and managing multi-vendor VPNs
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simple and scalable, the company says. Enterprises and service providers can
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quickly deploy VPNs from edge to core, via Internet Protocol Security and
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Multiprotocol Label Path Switching technologies. From a single product, VPN
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SC offers strong authentication and security as well as bandwidth and SLAs.
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“Currently large-scale VPN deployments are complex and require
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time-consuming, manual device configurations,” said Tim Sebring, founder and
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CEO of Dorado Software. “Redcell VPN SC provides a powerful solution
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designed to automate the creation and deployment of IP-VPNs, and enables VPN
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services to be turned on faster, more accurately across a multi-vendor
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environment. With feature-rich IPSec and MPLS service offerings, this
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integrated solution allows the true cost saving benefits of VPNs to be
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realized.”
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Redcell VPN Service Center addresses a number of problems, such as
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management of security information, control of network security appliances,
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management and configuration of routers, and the accuracy and time involved
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in delivery of services. The VPN SC ensures users don’t need a degree in
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router or network appliance configuration, no matter the complexity of the
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network. Inaccuracies occur in approximately 50% of all manual VPN
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deployments. The VPN SC eliminates the errors by ensuring the correct
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service is deployed each time, the company said. Even in instances where
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full deployment is not possible, such as when a router is down and not
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available for provisioning, the VPN SC offers rollback capability that
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avoids partially deployed services. Users pick the members of the VPN,
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define customer information, and the VPN Service Center does the rest.
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“Service providers are increasingly adding Virtual Private Network services
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to their product offerings due to the increased demand by their customers,
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an indication that, as measured by Infonetics’ research, VPNs are considered
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a valuable tool for businesses,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst and
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co-founder, Infonetics Research. “Speed and accuracy of service provider
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provisioning are essential for these VPN services. Dorado’s Redcell VPN
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Service Center will enable service providers to quickly deploy multi-vendor
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IP services in their new generation networks.”
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In an MPLS environment, Redcell VPN SC facilitates private IP network
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services, connecting physically disparate locations by defining a variety of
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VPN types, and provisioning the network to support user requirements.
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Integrated with Dorado’s Redcell product family, Redcell VPN SC offers
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enterprises and service providers an application to rapidly create secure
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multi-point VPN connectivity.
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Dorado’s VPN Service Center is designed to create customer sites and capture
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customer information; define and provision network paths on provider edge
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routers, including RSVP- and/or LDP-signaled label-switched paths and define
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and create both hub-and-spoke as well as fully meshed MPLS-based VPNs.
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Redcell VPN SC Version 3 delivers MPLS VPNs. MPLS has emerged as a dominant
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standard for IP-VPNs, offering important improvements in provisioning and
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management of VPNs. Redcell VPN SC provides the ability to create named
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paths, support LSPs (both RSVP and LDP signaled), define Customer
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Edge-to-Provider Edge routing protocols, and create and deploy Layer 2 VPNs
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(both “Kompella” and “Martini”) and Layer 3 PLS Border Gateway Protocol
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VPNs (based on RFC 2547). The Redcell VPN Service Center supports Juniper
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M-series and Cisco multi-protocol series routers.
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Support for additional equipment and IPSec capabilities, providing host-host
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security services such as privacy, authentication, and message integrity
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targeted at the enterprise, is expected in late Q1.
