Nortel Networks 4050 manual Elements of the Nsna solution, Supported users, Overview

32Chapter 1 Overview

For Nortel, success is delivering technologies providing secure access to your information using security-compliant systems. Your success is measured by increased employee productivity and lower network operations costs. Nortel’s solutions provide your organization with the network intelligence required for success.

Elements of the NSNA solution

The following devices are essential elements of the Nortel SNA solution:

•Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 (Nortel SNAS 4050), which acts as the Policy Decision Point

•network access device, which acts as the Policy Enforcement Point

—Ethernet Routing Switch 8300

—Ethernet Routing Switch 5510, 5520, or 5530

•DHCP and DNS servers

The following devices are additional, optional elements of the Nortel SNA solution:

•remediation server

•corporate authentication services such as LDAP or RADIUS services

Each Nortel SNAS 4050 device can support up to five network access devices.

Supported users

The Nortel SNAS 4050 supports the following types of users:

•PCs using the following operating systems:

—Windows 2000 SP4

—Windows XP SP2

The Nortel SNAS 4050 supports the following browsers:

—Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later

—Netscape Navigator version 7.3 or later

—Mozilla Firefox version 1.0.6 or later

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