February 2, 1999

Motorola Announces High-Performance SOHO Router For Handling Integrated Traffic

Motorola's Internet and Networking Group announced the Vanguard 6425 Multiservice Router, a high-performance router designed to enable small and branch offices to efficiently handle integrated traffic (legacy, data, fax, voice and video) over IP, Frame Relay, ISDN or X.25 services.

The newest member of the award-winning Vanguard 6400 series of networking solutions, the Vanguard 6425 brings the flexibility and affordability of multiservice networking to the edges of the enterprise.

"The Vanguard 6425 is ideal for small branch offices and retail chain stores looking for cost savings by consolidating data, fax, voice and video traffic over IP or frame relay," said Walt Prusak, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Product Management, Motorola's Internet and Networking Group. "These customers can extend the power of multiservice to the smallest branch without increasing WAN costs. The Vanguard 6425 provides multiple solutions for multiservice networks in one small box," said Prusak.

The Vanguard 6425's compact desktop design encases both power and flexibility. Its three slots handle all Vanguard daughtercards, including the 2-port FXS and E&M cards supporting both VoIP and VoFR simultaneously.

Motorola continues to provide its customers with new features and functionality to meet their growing needs. Motorola's Vanguard Applications Ware provides scalable software solutions that give customers the functionality they need while leaving their networks poised for easy migration to future telephony requirements.

The recently announced Security Applications Ware is a standards-based solution that uses single DES (Data Encryption Standard) for encryption, triple DES for the symmetrical key exchange and SAM (Security Association Management), a proprietary key exchange protocol. Motorola's hardware-based encryption solution provides a significant performance increase over software-based methods. Motorola is the only vendor whose product line currently supports both hardware compression and encryption, which makes it desirable for corporate VPNs.

The Vanguard6400 Series
The announcement of the Vanguard 6425 rounds out the Vanguard 6400 series, which now consists of three products to meet customers' unique application requirements. The Vanguard 6425, for small and branch offices, is ideal for customers looking for an entry-level desktop model. Customers looking for scalability, upgradability and rack-mount capability, will want the Vanguard 6430, while customers needing maximum capability for larger branches will find the Vanguard 6450 ideally suited to their needs.

Shipping this month worldwide, the Vanguard 6425, priced at U.S. $2,100, includes IP Applications Ware as well as the new Security Applications Ware.

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