Archive for March, 2010
Barrier1 securing IP/TV as well as Data from 1 appliance
Barrier1 Brings Network Security to both Data and IP/TV from 1 Appliance
Recently, Mid States k-12 District located in Little Falls Minn., has been securing over 100+ simultaneous IP Video/TV streams of HD as well as there data flow. This is being done on 1 Barrier1 appliance without delay or noticeable jitter.
Network security has been focusing on data for the past 10+ years. However, in the world of IP VOIP as well as IP/TV or IP Video is just as vulnerable. When you take a simplistic view of IP it is just another set of 1 and 0’s arrange slightly different. So, why would one think that VOIP and IP Video/TV would not be as vulnerable?
In order to protect these services from hackers and cyber criminals. Barrier1, utilizes multi core processors and efficient system architecture has been securing all 3 services from 1 appliance for over 3 years.
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Barrier1 Securing Live Video Conference
The need for network security is now going beyond just the Data world. Both Video and Voice are now becoming more widely used and open. With Video education, IPTV, Web Conferencing entering into the mainstream, these IP based services will have to secured just like data. At first the unfortunate cases of a IP Video feed gets interrupted with a 2 min. viewing of porn. The next will be viruses that are inserted as 1 of the video frames or some form of a Denial of Service attack that cuts out the video stream altogether.
Barrier1 has been securing Video and VOIP for over 3 yrs. In fact we have customers using 1 Barrier1 device to secure both Data and IPVideo at the same time.