Nortel Networks 2700 Network Card User Manual


 
Appendix A Technical specifications 81
Nortel VPN Router Installation — VPN Router 2700
The VPN Router Security Accelerator card is the successor to the Hardware
Accelerator card. The Hardware Accelerator Hifn 7811 card has been
discontinued effective January 2006 although Nortel still supports this card.
Along with providing support for AES, the VPN Router Security Accelerator card
provides increased encryption throughput and improved compression
performance.
At startup, when you manually enable an accelerator card, or when the accelerator
recovers from a failure, the power-on self-test (POST) verifies the integrity of the
hardware. This test includes validation of the accelerator’s encryption, MAC, and
compression algorithms against their software counterparts. In the event POST
fails, the accelerator card is set offline.
For more information about the VPN Router Security Accelerator card and the
Hardware Accelerator card and instructions for configuring these cards, see the
guide Nortel VPN Router Configuration — Advanced Features (NN46110-502).
SSL VPN Module 1000
The SSL VPN Module 1000 provides complete SSL VPN processing capability to
the VPN Router. This module provides a unified solution for IPsec and remote
access SSL VPN.
Figure 31 shows the SSL VPN Module 1000.
Figure 31 SSL VPN Module 1000
The SSL VPN Module 1000 has no external access: all traffic to and from the SSL
VPN Module 1000 card occurs over an internal high-speed link.
Note: The VPN Router card has one green LED; the Hardware
Accelerator card has no LEDs.
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