At this moment in time the area of greatest change in Business is access to the Internet. With the benefits of attaching a company to this fast changing medium, one must also balance this with security and tools to enhance the performance, and reduce costs of access. This section contains packages that enhance these requirements.

The Novell® BorderManager is a powerful, integrated software suite that centrally manages user access privileges and security across the Internet, intranets and corporate network. With BorderManager you can now manage the border between the corporate network and the Internet the same way you manage the LAN. Through a single point of administration, you can manage what users see and where they go on the Internet, intranet and corporate network. With features including firewall filters, circuit gateway, proxy caching, secure remote access and Virtual Private Network with end-to-end encryption across the Internet, Novell BorderManager let's you extend your private network to the public Internet with confidence.

TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE NOVELL® BORDERMANAGER™

2. SECURITY BorderManager user-level access controls offer tighter security than that provided by firewalls alone. Inbound access controls protect the corporate intranet from unauthoised access through the Internet Additionally, Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology provides site-to-site encryption, resulting in secure connections through the Internet and elimiating the cost of dedicated lines.

3. PERFORMANCE BorderManager's advanced proxy caching delivers the most scalable caching services and accelerates access to the Internet by up to 10 times. It reduces network traffic and can also be configured as a Web server accelerator to store popular Web pages and reduce your Web server's workload by up to 90%.

4. CONTROL OF INTERNET ACCESS Outbound controls manage access to Internet resources by internal users and prevent employees from accessing sites that may negatively impact their productivity. for example, an employer could restrict all access to pronographic sites, while allowing access to entertainment sites outside office hours. If desired, they could also grant hourly employees a different level of web access than salaried employees.

5. COMPLETE SOLUTION BorderManager offers a comprehensive family of service that solve the problems associated with implementing a corporate intranet and connecting it to the Internet. It delivers management, security, and performance in a single package.

6. INTEROPERABILITY BorderManager supports industry standards, so it runs with many of the clients and servers your customers are already using. BorderManager enables organisations to combine best of breed technology in all areas, including server platforms, workstations, protocol stacks, Web browsers, and Web servers, while incorporating new technologies as the become available.

7. COST SAVINGS BorderManager saves you time and money in several ways. It yields faster performance from less-expensive hardware; it reduces the need for a more-expensive, high speed link to the Net; it enables you to dial locally instead renting costly, dedicated phone lines; and it works with NDS to automate administration of Internet resources across the entire enterprise.