Abstract

Nortel Networks, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its Contivity 2600, which is designed to serve large branch offices or data centers that support up to 1,000 VPN tunnels. Tolly Group engineers subjected the Contivity 2600 to a battery of tests to determine the switch's single-rule firewall and IPSec gateway bidirectional zero-loss performance, as well as to benchmark switch performance when both services are contending for bandwidth.