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AltaVista provides an open, firewall independent, flexible solution as opposed to Borderware' strategy based on a proprietary architecture. The AltaVista products are very inexpensive compared to a complete firewall solution with an unlimited user license. AltaVista offers all flavors of VPNs while Borderware does not support personal tunneling for telecommuting . At last, the AltaVista Tunnel products provides a much stronger security with dynamic rekeying to change the session key every 30 minutes.
Basic business requirements
| | AltaVista Tunnel 97
| Borderware Firewall Server V4.0
| Comments |
| Remote & mobile PC support
| Yes - AltaVista Personal Tunnel
| No | Border only provides one type of VPNs.
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| LAN to LAN support. |
Yes - AltaVista Group Tunnel
| Yes | -
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| Server Platform coverage
| Windows NT (Intel), Digital UNIX, BSD and FreeBSD.
| Proprietary OS (Intel)
| - |
| Client Platform coverage
| Win95, WinNT clients |
n/a | -
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Security attributes
| | AltaVista Tunnel 97
| Borderware Firewall Server V4.0
| Comments |
| Authentication | Mutual authentication with RSA 512-bit public key
| MD5 128 bit key | -
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| Integrity | MD5 Message Digest
| MD5 | -
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| Encryption | RSA's RC4 128-bit and 56-bit for International
| DES 56 bit, Triple DES and RC5
| - |
| Protocol | TCP only.
| TCP only | -
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| Dynamic rekeying | Yes, every 30 minutes
| No | To enhance the security of the 128 bit key, AltaVista automatically and transparently exchanges a new key every 30 minutes.
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Costs (acquisition, migration and ownership)
| | AltaVista Tunnel 97
| Borderware Firewall Server V4.0
| Comments |
| Price client | LAN Client: Free; Remote client: $99.
| n/a | -
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| Price Server | 50 users $995; 200 users $ 1,995; 512 users $ 2,495
| $ 4,000 VPN option |
Option to Borderware Firewall Server (the unlimited license is required for the VPN add-on to work)
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| Other costs | none
| Yes |
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| Firewall independence |
Yes. | No. $4,000 for 25 users and $7,000 unlimited.
| Borderware Firewall Server is required.
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| Dynamic IP addressing |
Yes | No
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Investment Protection
| | AltaVista Tunnel 97
| Borderware Firewall Server V4.0
| Comments |
| Scalability | Concurrent tunnels. NT: 200, BSD/OS: 200, FreeBSD: 200, Digital UNIX: 512
| 2 VPNs from a server to 2 other servers.
| - |
| Solution type | Software only
| Software only | BorderWare has a proprietary operating system
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| X.509 | No
| No | -
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Confidence in the vendor
| | AltaVista Tunnel 97
| Borderware Firewall Server V4.0
| Comments |
| Charter | AltaVista offers not only best-in-class VPNs and firewalls but also a complete Intra/Internet product portfolio. More on: AltaVista Tunnels.
| Borderware's only focus is firewalls. Their LAN to LAN VPN product is an extension of the Firewall Server V4.0. More on: Borderware.
| AltaVista understands the overall security needs (e.g. management, directories) from the application level because of its global charter.
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| Proven technology | Available since December 1995.
| Available since September 1996
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