Connectra R62 is now available for download from the Software Subscription
site. The upgrade path is from Connecta R61 to R62. This looks like some
very good improvements. Excerpts from the What's new doc follow.
Ray
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Connectra NGX (R62) can be used as a terminating and management gateway for
the Check Point ISCM remote access client for PDAs and SmartPhones.
Connectra's thin clients can now be deployed either as Java applets or
ActiveX components. The deployment of these thin clients as ActiveX
increases the amount of supported browser environments, and may reduce also
the amount of pop-ups the user encounters while connecting to Connectra.
The SSL Network Extender (SNX) window can now be set to be automatically
minimized on launch, enabling you to provide a more transparent browsing
experience to end-users. Please note that the SNX Auto-minimize feature is
supported only by browsers supporting ActiveX.
The new command line based User Monitor enables you to track in real time
the amount and identity of users currently logged in to Connectra, enabling
you to monitor the load and use of your SSL VPN gateway.
Starting NGX (R62), Connectra supports the Check Point advanced upgrade
(export/import) utilities providing both backup capabilities, and migration
from one machine to another in case hardware upgrades/changes are needed
The Linux CIFS VFS kernel module deployed with Connectra is enhanced to
support file shares in all UTF-8 encoded languages, including Far Eastern
language characters. This enables both Far East based companies, as well as
enterprises with remote branches in the Far East, to use Connectra's File
Shares features.
Connectra NGX (R62) partially supports LDAP V3 which allows full support of
UTF-8 usernames and passwords, therefore allowing full integration with LDAP
servers containing non-western characters.
Connectra NGX (R62) supports the use of the Connectra Accelerator Card. This
PCI-X card speeds up the SSL/TLS public key exchange, and reduces CPU
utilization by allowing the offloading of intensive calculations to
dedicated hardware. The SSL acceleration card can handle hundreds of new
transactions per second, resulting in improvement to your SSL VPN gateway?s
performance.
Check Point is constantly working to improve Web applications support by
improving Connectra's link translation technology. In NGX (R62), Connectra's
link translation engine has enhanced Javascript and ActiveX support, and
support for Check Point SmartPortal.
SSL Network Extender (SNX) support for Mac is expanded to include Intel
based addition to PowerPC based Mac platforms.
The performance of SSL Network Extender (SNX) has improved dramatically in
release. NGX (R62) SNX customers will experience a noticeable improvement as
now expect file transfer downloads over SNX to happen in nearly wire speed.
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