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The Polycom V2IU Firewall Transversal Solution

The V2IU Application Aware solution resolves NAT/Firewall issues. It performs video and voice NAT at the public/private IP address boundary eliminating the security risks of traversal methods that tunnel or “hide” video and voice traffic from existing perimeter security. It allows a single public IP address to be used for multiple private LAN VoIP and video clients

It dynamically secures video and voice devices. A stateful packet inspection firewall is used in combination with an application layer gateway to provide comprehensive application-aware security. This approach enables the V2IU to dynamically provision and close TCP and UDP ports as needed by the video and voice endpoints.

It optimizes the quality of video and voice calls The V2IU forwards video and voice traffic the shortest path possible to minimize jitter, latency and packet loss. It also provides traffic management to ensure that high priority real time video and voice traffic is processed before lower priority data traffic.

Based on robust, telco-accepted technology, the V2IU enables robust use of standards-based networking security mechanisms. It has been installed in the world's most demanding enterprise and telco environments

The V2IU product family – an appliance for every environment Ideal for SOHO and small-to-medium enterprise edge deployment, the 4300 series comes with 4 x 10/100Mbps Ethernet LAN interfaces; 1 x 10/100Mbps Ethernet WAN interface or T1/E1 WAN. The 4300 series supports up to 3Mbps of video, voice, or data traffic. The 5300 series appliance is offered in configurations to support an enterprise edge or a service provider edge includes 1 x 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet LAN interface; 1 x 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet WAN interface and 1 x 10/100Mbps Ethernet out-of-band management interface. The 5300 supports up to 25 Mbps of video, voice, or data traffic. Designed for demanding environments, the 6400 series is a dual, redundant AC or DC power system offering 1 x 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet LAN interface; 1 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet WAN interface and 1 x 10/100Mbps Ethernet out-of-band management interface. The 6400 is offered in configurations to support an enterprise edge or a service provider edge and supports up to 85 Mbps of video, voice, or data traffic.

The V2IU family of products enables you to access the power of Polycom unified collaborative communications solutions. With the greatest breadth and depth of integrated video, voice, and Web solutions, only Polycom delivers the ultimate communications experience. Our market-leading conferencing and collaboration technologies, supported by world-class service, enable people and organizations to maximize their effectiveness and productivity. Add to that the most experience and proven best practices in the industry, and it's clear why Polycom has become the smart choice for organizations seeking a strategic advantage in a real-time world.

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The Polycom® V²IU 5300-S series is an easily deployed network appliance solution that provides greater scalability than other server-based software solutions. It helps reduce costs by simplifying the deployment, management, and security of converged video, voice, and data networks. This is the ideal solution for service providers, because it protects critical IP communication components used in the delivery of hosted video or voice services. And it's also ideal for enterprises, because the Polycom® V²IU 5300-S eliminates the need to place H.323 gatekeepers and multipoint conference units on the public IP network for interoffice or partner collaboration.

A VoIP and video-aware solution, the Polycom® V²IU 5300-S series helps resolve NAT/firewall traversal issues by performing video and voice NAT at the public/private IP address boundary, eliminating the security risks of other traversal methods that 'tunnel' or obscure video and voice traffic from existing perimeter security.

The Polycom® V²IU 5300-S employs a stateful packet inspection firewall in combination with an application layer gateway, providing comprehensive application-aware security. This approach enables the Polycom® V²IU 5300-S to dynamically provision and close TCP and UDP ports as needed by video and voice endpoints.

In addition, topology hiding protects H.323 gatekeepers and multipoint conference units from network-based attacks. Simply install the Polycom® V²IU 5300-S between your H.323 gatekeeper or multipoint conference units and the public IP network, to hide their real IP addresses and increase security.

To identify and authenticate video and voice devices as they register with the gatekeeper, the Polycom® V²IU 5300-S uses a dynamic access control list. This authentication mechanism eliminates the need to manually program IP addresses of valid devices in other firewalls around the perimeter of the data center.

The quality of your video and voice calls is optimized by routing video and voice traffic via the shortest path possible, to minimize jitter, latency, and packet loss.

08/31/06

The Polycom V2IU Firewall Transversal Solution