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Contra Costa Community College District Deploys NeoAccel's SSL VPN Solution
High Performance SSL VPN-Plus(TM) Replaces Legacy IPsec VPN
| Source: NeoAccel
SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 20, 2007 -- NeoAccel, the leader in
high-performance SSL VPN security, today announced that the Contra Costa
Community College District (4CD) has deployed the company's SSL VPN-Plus solution.
SSL VPN-Plus is displacing an IPsec VPN solution, and will provide 4CD's
executive administrators, IT staff members and other key employees with
secure remote access to applications and online resources with fewer
technical problems and at lower cost.
"We previously used an IPsec VPN and ran into many issues with installation
and incompatibility, but we didn't want to go to a lower-performing
solution," said Katherine Ogden, Network Technology Manager for Contra
Costa Community College District. "NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus has
been a 'fire and forget' solution that has eliminated our IPsec VPN
problems without compromising performance. In fact, it delivered an almost
immediate return on investment."
Unlike other SSL VPN solutions that would have required the 4CD to purchase
"webified" versions of critical applications, NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus'
small, downloadable client provides remote access to all of the district's
standard applications, including Microsoft Exchange. In addition, SSL
VPN-Plus offers industry-leading performance for an overall user
experience better than the previous IPsec solution. And with clients that
can be easily installed by end users without IT assistance, SSL VPN-Plus
offers easier administration along with more granular access control and
complete end-point validation, which significantly adds user-based security
over current IPsec VPN solutions.
SSL VPN-Plus' full endpoint security scans prevent users without updated
anti-virus and anti-spam software from accessing critical parts of the
network. And unlike IPsec VPNs, NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus offers granular
user-based network access policy management that allows network
administrators to limit network access to specific resources, based on
policies specific to the user and the results of an endpoint security
check.
"Customers like the Contra Costa Community College District are recognizing
that they want the simplicity of SSL VPN technology, but they don't want to
give up the performance of IPsec-based solutions," said Michel Susai,
Chairman and CEO of NeoAccel. "With our SSL VPN-Plus product, they can have
industry-leading performance with lower costs, easier deployment, and
simplified administration with significant increase in security."
About NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus
NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus is an "anytime, anywhere" enterprise-class remote
access solution. Its breakthrough high-performance architecture allows for
efficient, LAN-like performance even in congested, "lossy" network
environments such as wireless and Internet WAN. Through its Intelligent
Connection Acceleration Architecture™ (ICAA™) and minimal-overhead
Transparent SSL (TSSL™) engine, SSL VPN-Plus delivers fast and
uninterrupted application response for enterprise-wide SSL VPN deployments.
About NeoAccel
With the vision to "Secure Everything™" through secure, high-performing
access to any application from any device anywhere, NeoAccel is delivering
a breakthrough in simplified, full-access SSL VPN solutions. NeoAccel's SSL
VPN-Plus™ enables more businesses to implement highly secure, scalable
access with the native network performance of IPsec VPNs. NeoAccel was
founded by Michel Susai, the founder and former chairman and CEO of
NetScaler where he invented and pioneered the patented "Request Switching"
technology that accelerates application delivery to handle the bulk of
today's commercial Internet Web traffic. Powered by the company's
patent-pending Intelligent Connection Acceleration Architecture™
(ICAA™) technology, NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus software platform overcomes
the limitations that compel network managers and users to resort to
cumbersome or insecure workarounds when faced with using conventional
performance-limited remote access. NeoAccel's newest network access control
product, NAM-Plus™, enables intelligent, corporate LAN infrastructures
to identify users and their devices, endpoint security audits, and grant
access to specific destinations, resources, and applications based on
corporate security policies. NeoAccel is headquartered in Silicon Valley.
Contact NeoAccel at www.neoaccel.com or info@neoaccel.com.
NeoAccel, SSL VPN-Plus, Intelligent Connection Acceleration Architecture,
ICAA, Secure Everything and NAM-Plus are trademarks of NeoAccel, Inc