Virtual Network Server

VNS3™ (vns-cubed), formerly VPN-Cubed®, is the first commercial solution that provides software defined networking capabilities for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments.

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What does it do?

VNS3 creates an overlay network that gives YOU control of addressing, topology, protocols, and encrypted communications for YOUR devices deployed to virtual infrastructure or cloud computing centers. Cloud providers have state-of-the-art facilities, experienced staff, and fantastic equipment but are still 3rd parties, and moving corporate assets to the cloud means 3rd party control. Enterprise checks and balances require you to exhibit control over your computing infrastructure. VNS3 gives you flexibility with control in 3rd party environments.

What is it?

VNS3 Managers are hybrid devices; they are virtual routers, virtual switches, SSL VPN concentrators, IPSec VPN concentrators, firewalls, and protocol re-distributors, configurable in a mesh. They can be used to run key business computing topologies that have been moved to a cloud, but need secure access to the corporate datacenter. They can be used to provision development infrastructure on the fly - allowing "N" identical copies of virtual servers to be run simultaneously - identical down to its IP address. Integrating with existing edge and DMZ equipment like IPSec extranet boxes, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection and stateful inspection, VNS3 doesn't require new knowledge or training to implement. Enterprise application topologies can be easily deployed in a controlled global network, accessible by staff, customers and partners alike, all under the application owner's control.

Supported Cloud/Virtual Environments

VNS3 Manager Images are available to use in IBM SCE, Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, GoGrid, Terremark vCloud Express, Flexiant, ElasticHosts, and CloudSigma. CohesiveFT can also provide VNS3 Manager Images in various virtual formats like VMware, KVM, Xen, and Parallels - contact our sales team for more information about private cloud deployment.

IPsec Connectivity Option

VNS3 Managers with the enabled IPsec option act as tunnel endpoints for extending your Datacenter LAN to the Cloud and between cloud regions, datacenters and cloud providers. Point-to-point encryption of traffic from the datacenter to the cloud (IPsec tunnel) and between cloud servers (Overlay Network) extends enterprise control to all data in motion.

VNS3 supports most IPsec data center extranet solutions.

• Preferred: Cisco ASA, Cisco PIX, Juniper JunOS Models, and Juniper ScreenOS Models
• Validated: Cisco 1800, Fortigate (3 years old or less), Watchguard Firebox (3 years old or less), and Sonicwall
• Best Effort: Any IPsec device that supports: IKE1 or IKE2, AES256 or AES128 or 3DES, SHA1 or MD5, and most importantly NAT-Traversal

Bottom Line

Remember the VNS3 overlay network provides 5 key capabilities public clouds do not currently allow you to control:

• static addressing for your cloud devices,
• topology control by using VPN-Cubed managers as virtual switches, virtual bridges or virtual routers,
• use of popular enterprise protocols like UDP Multicast for service discovery,
• encrypted communications between all your devices in the cloud.
• and lastly encrypted communications to cloud using your existing extranet infrastructure.

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).