To address the customer challenge of security, performance and management, Nortel Networks has developed the next generation security architecture: Switched Firewalls. Nortel Networks Alteon Switched Firewall System has been specifically designed to provide a total solution that allows the corporation to ensure security without giving up the application performance that is truly critical to success. The Alteon Switched Firewall System maximizes capital investment by providing High Performance Security at a significantly lower cost than traditional solutions requiring multiple firewalls. All this in a highly flexible solution that is easy to integrate into existing data centers. ??The Alteon Switched Firewall is a multi-component solution managed as a single system. The hardware is a combination of the Alteon Switched Firewall Accelerator and the Alteon Switched Firewall Director. The Switched Firewall Director is optimized to manage the complex, processing-intensive job of setting ... Minimize