Abstract

Nortel commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Nortel VPN Gateway 3070, an enterprise-class device that combines support for IPSec and SSL VPNs into a single device.

Tolly Group engineers benchmarked the throughput of the Nortel VPN Gateway 3070, examined the limits of the device’s scalability and identified the extent of voice quality supported by the gateway. Testing was performed at The Tolly Group's Boca Raton, Fl., facilities in March 2005.

Tests show that the Nortel VPN Gateway 3070 delivers consistent throughput when tested across workgroups scaling from 10 users, to 5,000 users. Scalability tests show that even as the number of users scales to 5,000, the device does not sacrifice significant throughput. Finally, the Nortel VPN Gateway 3070 yielded toll-quality voice during tests focusing on voice quality.