News Release from: Accelerated Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 July 2005
Protocol software secures VPN applications
A royalty-free package allows networking developers to establish a secure, virtual private network (VPN) connection over the Internet for use in building data-sensitive VPN applications.
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New from Accelerated Technology, Nucleus Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) software is a royalty-free package that allows networking developers to establish a secure, virtual private network (VPN) connection over the Internet for use in building data-sensitive VPN applications. The Nucleus L2TP software, combined with the Nucleus NET networking stack and the Nucleus IPsec security package, provides embedded developers with a complete VPN solution. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are supplied for creating VPN capable devices, which enable mobile or telecommuting users to connect to and access data from a corporate or private network using a public network such as the Internet.
Using the Nucleus software solution, embedded developers can build a device to establish an L2TP tunnel from the host to the L2TP private network server.
This allows developers to then establish a session and access the private network resources that become available to the host over the L2TP tunnel.
'L2TP, the replacement for the point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP), is a much improved, more secure VPN solution and is a natural progression for network access vendors and equipment manufacturers'.
'The Nucleus L2TP software solution is fully integrated and tested with the rest of our extensive Nucleus networking family and meets the increasing secure connectivity needs of our customers', said Robert Day, Director of Marketing, Embedded Systems Division, Mentor Graphics.
The Nucleus L2TP software is highly configurable allowing customisation for different needs.
L2TP network server (LNS) and L2TP access concentrator (LAC) are supported in this single software package.
The Nucleus L2TP software is fully conformant with RFC 2661, ensuring interoperability with other implementations.
To help achieve a high level of conformance and interoperability, the Nucleus L2TP software has been tested against Ixia's Automate Network Validation Library (ANVL), as well as against Red Hat Linux, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server.
The Nucleus embedded software is sold in source code format and without royalty fees.
Licences for the Nucleus L2TP software begin at US $4995.
The L2TP MIB is part of the Nucleus L2TP package and allows remote monitoring and configuring of L2TP tunnels and sessions.
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