Aventail Introduces Clientless SSL VPN Appliance

January 14, 2003 -- SSL VPN solution developer Aventail Corporation (Aventail.com) announced on Monday that it has released the Aventail EX-1500 clientless SSL VPN appliance, designed to provide remote users with secure access to Web, client/server and Web sharing resources.

Using the solution, says Aventail, IT organizations don't have to use traditional IPSec-based remote access VPNs that can be expensive and difficult to deploy, or first-generation SSL VPNs, which offer limited security and flexibility.

Aventail says the EX-1500 is built on the sixth generation of its SSL VPN technology platform, which already serves more than 400 large corporations and 400,000 end users. The company says the EX-1500 includes several functions that raise the bar for anywhere access, IT flexibility and enterprise security.

"The availability of the Aventail EX-1500 takes the remote access VPN appliance market to the next level. For the first time, businesses don't have to sacrifice security and IT flexibility for the simplicity of an SSL VPN," said Evan Kaplan, president & CEO at Aventail Corporation. "Based on our years of experience with enterprise customers, we are delivering the only solution that is elegantly designed to meet the broadest range of remote access use cases."