SEATTLE -- Aventail wants you to throw away your IPSec VPN solution for remote access. The leading SSL VPN technology company today launched an aggressive campaign, allowing prospective enterprises to trade-in their current IPSec or SSL VPN solution and receive 20% off the cost of new Aventail appliances, valued at up to $100,000.

This campaign comes on the heels of Aventail’s latest platform release. The new Aventail Smart SSL VPN is a single solution for all remote access, providing universal application reach to even complex applications like VoIP with complete security and control. With this release, Aventail is the first VPN solution, IPSec or SSL, to guarantee secure communication to all resources, for both managed and unmanaged devices, with the most comprehensive clientless and client-based access options.

“We are so confident that our technology is far superior to any IPSec solution for all remote access that we are putting our money where our mouth is,” said Sarah Daniels, vice president of marketing and product management, Aventail. “For companies that are not receiving the ease of access and management or level of security they need for all their user groups and devices, we challenge them to try the Aventail Smart SSL VPN.”

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SEATTLE -- Aventail Corporation today has leapfrogged over other remote access solutions - both IPSec and SSL - with the release of its version 8.5 VPN platform. Incorporating Aventail’s patent-pending Smart Tunneling architecture for the first time, Aventail now delivers a single VPN solution that unifies complete control and security with universal application access to all UDP, TCP, IP protocols, and back connect applications, such as VoIP.

Aventail Smart Tunneling is a Layer 3 tunnel with Layers 4 through 7 policy control, providing a direct, secure communication link between the end point and the application and any reverse connection back out to the end device. IPSec VPN solutions, such as Cisco and Nortel, use a Layer 3 tunnel without any application layer policy control, which can result in potential security breaches and open access to the network. Plus, IPSec solutions cannot be used in many remote access scenarios. Other SSL VPNs, like Juniper, offer a Layer 3 tunnel “add on” solution, which has to be managed via a separate policy engine, is subject to network conflicts, and lacks bidirectional tunnel controls.

With this release, Aventail is the only VPN to provide centralized management and comprehensive end point control for all access methods, users, resources, and devices. For the first time, this allows companies to deploy one solution to easily manage all remote access scenarios, increasing productivity for all users and IT staff while lowering overall total cost of ownership. Employees, partners, and customers can now access critical applications from everywhere, whether from a home PC, café hotspot, Internet kiosk, or behind a firewall at a client premise -- as if they were in the office.

“Aventail’s new technology is the first solution on the market to combine the full functionality of an IPSec solution with the granular access, policy control, and traversal capabilities of an SSL VPN,” said Zeus Kerravala, vice president of research, Security Practice, Yankee Group. “The timing is good, since many IPSec solutions are approaching the end of their product life cycle, and enterprises are starting to seriously look at remote access solutions.”

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