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SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - Nortel Networks this week will try to make IP virtual private networks twice as nice by doubling the performance of its VPN appliance product family.
The company will unveil three new models of its Contivity Extranet Switch (CES), capable of supporting up to 4,000 simultaneous VPN tunnels and leapfrogging the performance of a recent Cisco entry into the still-developing VPN market.
The three new CES models are a new generation of boxes based on the technology from last year's Bay Networks purchase of New Oak Communications. Shortly after the New Oak acquisition, Bay was incorporated into Nortel.
The new branch-office CES 1500 will support 100 simultaneous secure tunnels...