V-ONE Building VPN for VSAT and Satellite Networks

June 26, 2002 -- Internet-based network security provider V-ONE Corporation (V-ONE.com) announced on Monday that it has plans to offer advanced virtual private network solutions to users and resellers of satellite IP data communication services through its SmartSat program.

SmartSat, says V-ONE, overcomes some of the long-standing VPN performance problems associated with satellite circuits, allowing organizations to benefit from satellite communication.

The SmartSat program is built on V-ONE’s SmartGate VPN software, which operates at the application layer to circumvent the performance problems that network layer VPN protocols, like IPSec, often experience when subjet to satellite circuit propagation delay.

"With SmartSat, V-ONE extends our wireless capabilities to include satellite communication," says Margaret Grayson, president and CEO of V-ONE Corporation. "By capitalizing on optimization techniques to compensate for satellite propagation delays, benchmark results have shown as much as a five-to-one improvement in throughput over IPSec solutions."

According to V-ONE, SmartGate allows secure access to TCP/IP-based applications, providing a framework for mutual authentication, encryption, access control to specific information, audit logging and on-line registration.