ConSentry LANshield Switches
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LANShield Intelligent Switch Family - Integrated Intelligent Switching
ConSentry Networks delivers intelligent switching, making it easy for IT to control users and applications on the LAN. The ConSentry LANShield platforms - the LANShield Switch and LANShield Controller - tie together user, device, role, application, and destination to provide a level of business context not possible with legacy switch architectures. With this context, IT can more easily align the LAN to the business and deliver the services needed to make enterprises more efficient, accountable, and agile.
ConSentry LANShield Switches are enterprise-class 24- and 48-port intelligent switches that make it easy for IT to embed user and application control directly into the edge of the LAN infrastructure. Intelligent switching provides the user and application control needed to easily segment users on the LAN and protect critical assets and applications, dramatically lowering the cost of operations compared to deploying and maintaining VLANs and ACLs.
The LANShield Switches combine ConSentry's custom LANShield silicon and intelligent switching software with standard switching silicon to provide total user and application control without sacrificing performance. The ConSentry custom hardware includes a multi-core processor and programmable ASICs that perform packet processing for monitoring, control, and switching at 10 Gbps. The programmability of the hardware enables ConSentry to keep pace with changes in applications and security requirements.
The LANShield intelligent switching architecture enables enterprises to monitor and control all user traffic with minimal impact on the existing infrastructure. ConSentry leverages existing OS authentication mechanisms, such as the Windows login. The LANShield Switches enforce policy directly, without the need for new VLANs or ACLs in the network or new supplicants or agents on the clients.
