Description

AL-SMS software brings you today's most advanced carrier-grade IP services management capabilities at today's lowest ownership costs.

Teaming with Alcatel-Lucent's award-winning VPN Firewall Brick family and Alcatel-Lucent IPSec Client software, AL-SMS lets you rapidly provision and readily manage security, VPN, and QoS services for thousands of users from a single console. It integrates firewall, VPN, QoS, VLAN, and virtual firewall policy management; provides industry-leading scalability and availability; delivers robust monitoring, logs, and reports; and gives you flexible deployment options, all without the costly additional modules or recurring license fees competitive products require.

AL-SMS is expressly built to facilitate administration of large-scale, multi-customer/multi-site networks. Whether the services you're delivering are premises-based, network-based, or both, this feature-rich solution simplifies management with tightly synchronized control of firewall, VPN, QoS, VLAN, and virtual firewall policies for 10,000 VPN Firewall Brick devices and 100,000 Lucent IPSec Client users.

The result: AL-SMS can help you speed service creation, streamline management, and cut total operations and support costs in diverse high-revenue applications areas, including:

• Advanced security services
• Site-to-site and remote access VPN services
• Bandwidth management (QoS) services
• Secure data center web/application hosting
• Mobile data services

AL-SMS and IPSec Client software and the VPN Firewall Brick family are key components of Alcatel-Lucent's comprehensive IP services solutions portfolio.

Value description

AL-SMS lets you:

• Simplify IP services creation and management with a complete, 'one-and-done' solution - single platform provides centralized, policy-based management and provisioning of all IP services
  
• Tighten network-wide control of multiple systems, security policies, VPN tunnels, and remote clients
  
• Contain staging, installation, management, and operating costs - manage entire network from one console; totally secure remote management eliminates the need for network reconfigurations, truck-rolls, on-site support; VLAN, virtual firewall, and QoS support included at no extra charge; management efficiencies cut staffing and administrative expenses
  
• Take advantage of a simple, economical licensing model - unlike competitive products, LSMS requires no ongoing license fees or add-ons for complete security management
  
• Easily migrate from basic to advanced security, VPN, and QoS management services
  
• Rely on a mature, performance-tested management system with over 6 years of experience in the world's largest networks
  
• Help your customers ensure business continuity with native high availability, carrier-class reliability
  
• Draw on any desired level of expert solution planning, design, deployment, integration, and technical support from Lucent Worldwide Services

Features

Fully Integrated Management System

• Firewall
• VPN
• QoS
• VLAN
• Virtual firewall

• Policies are established centrally and automatically downloaded network-wide
• Role-based administration distributes management across dozens of simultaneous local and remote administrators
• Flexible, group-based management model: manage a collection of devices, security policies, VPN tunnels and user authentication components as a single entity; control policies at global, user, device, interface, VLAN and IP address range levels
• Real-time monitoring, robust logging and customized reporting
• High-speed content security - interoperable with third-party products to provide URL blocking and virus scanning

• Offers single-console support for up to 10,000 VPN Firewall Brick devices and 100,000 Alcatel-Lucent IPSec Client users
• Accommodates up to 100 simultaneous administrators

• Native high-availability architecture
• Distributable across multiple network operations centers (NOCs) for active/active network redundancy
• No single point of failure
• No advisories or reported vulnerabilities

• Internal Key Exchange (IKE) on Alcatel-Lucent VPN Firewall Brick models
• Advanced Encryption Standards (AES) on hardware and software
• Department of Defense (DoD) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• X.509 Digital Certificates
• Built-in internal database of 10,000 users

• Premises-based
• Network-based
• Tiered
• Data center

• Intuitive graphical user interface (GUI)
• Online help facility
• Comprehensive online documentation