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Raptor requires customers buy their firewall to use their VPNs. This is not appropriate when a company's partners such as suppliers or distribution channels are already equipped with firewalls. AltaVista offers this independence with a solution that has been qualified with all leading vendors.
In addition, AltaVista has a best-in-class security with dynamic rekeying. Raptor solution, based on a publicly available freeware code: SWIPE, may have some security holes when passing UDP packets.
Raptor claims "unlimited" number of tunnels. In a different manner, AltaVista wants to only communicate the maximum number of concurrent tunnels that it has fully tested and qualified. AltaVista's other competitive advantages are: NT support and a best price/performance ratio.
Basic business requirements
| | AltaVista Tunnel 97
| EagleConnect V3.0 |
Comments |
| Remote & mobile PC support
| Yes - AltaVista Personal Tunnel
| Yes | -
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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.
| SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, IBMAIX, DG,
| AltaVista Tunnel is available on WinNT. Raptor plans on supporting NT in Q1CY97.
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| Client Platform coverage
| Win95, WinNT clients |
Win95, WinNT & Win for Workgroup,
| Raptor can run Eagle Mobile Client on Windows for Workgroup with NDS Driver on TCP stack
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Security attributes
| | AltaVista Tunnel 97
| EagleConnect V3.0 |
Comments |
| Authentication | Mutual authentication with RSA 512-bit public key
| MD5 and hand-held authentication with Secure Dynamics SecurID (ACE) on UNIX and S/key.
| - |
| Integrity | MD5 Message Digest
| MD5 | -
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| Encryption | RSA's RC4 128-bit and 56-bit for International
| DES 56 bit & RC2 128, RC2 40 bit for International
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| Protocol | TCP only.
| UDP using SWIPE encapsulation protocol
| To ensure maximum security, the AltaVista Tunnel only passes TCP packets during both authentication and data encryption.
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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
| EagleConnect V3.0 |
Comments |
| Price client | LAN Client: Free; Remote client: $99.
| $ 99 | -
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| Price Server | 50 users $995; 200 users $ 1,995; 512 users $ 2,495
| Firewall (see below) |
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| Other costs | none
| 50 users: $7,000; 250 users: $15,000; unlimited: $25,000
| Requires use of Eagle Enterprise and Eagle Remote or Eagle LAN to create VPN
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| Firewall independence |
Yes. | No
| Raptor requires the use of Eagle Firewall product to build group-to-group or group-to-PC VPNs.
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| Dynamic IP addressing |
Yes | Yes
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Investment Protection
| | AltaVista Tunnel 97
| EagleConnect V3.0 |
Comments |
| Scalability | Concurrent tunnels. NT: 200, BSD/OS: 200, FreeBSD: 200, Digital UNIX: 512
| "unlimited" |
AltaVista has upper limits which result from thorough testing and qualification as opposed to a try-it-yourself "unlimited" solution.
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| Solution type | Software only
| Software only | -
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| X.509 | No
| No | -
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Confidence in the vendor
| | AltaVista Tunnel 97
| EagleConnect V3.0 |
Comments |
| Charter | AltaVista offers not only best-in-class VPNs and firewalls but also a complete Intra/Internet product portfolio. More on: AltaVista Tunnels.
| Raptor wants to provide a complete security roadmap with a good product segmentation. More on Raptor Eagle.
| 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 December 1995.
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