Altavista Tunnel 97 Competitive Positioning.

This document quickly and accurately positions the AltaVista Workgroup and Personal Tunnel 97 products (aka VPN or Virtual Private Network) against its main competitors.

Competitors

Timestep against AltaVista Borderware against AltaVista Microsoft PPTP against AltaVista

Checkpoint against AltaVista Netlock against AltaVista Raptor against AltaVista

Customers' benefits

This analysis is objectively based on the following customers' benefits: basic security requirements, security attributes, costs, investment protection and confidence level in the vendor. Each competitors (TimeStep, Borderware, Microsoft PPTP, Checkpoint, Netlock, Raptor and AltaVista) will be measured against these attributes.

• Basic business requirements.
  Is this the solution you need and is it consistent with your platform strategy? This chart describes the platform support on both servers and desktops, and various VPN solutions: PC-to-LAN (e.g. telecommuting) and LAN-to-LAN (e.g. leased line replacement for business-to-business VPNs)
• Security attributes.
  Is the vendor's offering really secure? This table covers authentication, encryption, integrity and any other security attributes such as protocol quality and dynamic rekeying.
• Costs.
  How much does it cost? This section analyzes acquisition costs, migration costs with firewall independence and ownership costs with ease-of-management such as dynamic IP addressing.
• Investment protection.
  Will this solution support the growth of your business? This chart covers scalability, hardware dependencies and distributed standards such as X.509.
• Confidence level.
  This solution is about protecting your most valuable information. The vendor must demonstrate its experience, the quality of its service and the reliability of its technology.