Clavister, the Swedish vendor of high performance IT/IP security solutions, has announced the 5500 series of its new UMA Security Gateway product family. With this announcement, the company is reacting on the rapidly growing UMA market (Unlicensed Mobile Access) that according to statements of well-established market research companies will comprise more than 300 million subscribers already by 2009. End devices are already today available from vendors such as Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, or BenQ. The UMA technology offers enterprises and users the worldwide first true mobile solution for cellular WLAN access and thus is the mobile platform of choice for future VoIP services. According to surveys by Motorola, about 50 percent of the Europeans would be seriously interested in and would decide in favor of a UMA service.

"The growth engines for UMA are fuelled amongst others by the requirements of users (only one single mobile phone for all services), by free phoning such as from Skype and by the mobile radio providers who are able to create a significant source of revenue via home zones", says Peter Johansson, CEO of Clavister. "When integrating new technologies such as UMA or services into existing network infrastructures the protection of these structures has to be of prime importance. For this reason, we have developed the UMA Security Gateway 5500 series that offers this protection without compromising the performance of network or services."

Clavister has developed the UMA Security Gateway particularly for use in mobile network structures. The scalable system based on the highly optimized network security operating system from Clavister has been designed with a 19 inch form factor and can hold up to 8 hot swappable Security Gateway elements. It includes 6 + 1 redundant auto load sharing power supply modules, 4 redundant hot swappable fans, one KVM blade for remote management and is also RoHS compliant.

Even in the base version the system supports 50,000 (400,000 maximum) concurrent IPSec Tunnels and 3,000 UMA voice connections (24,000 maximum). Each Security Gateway module supports 2 Gbps Layer 3 Routing Throughput (16 maximum), 10 million concurrent sessions (80 million maximum) as well as 10 to 1,000 (8,000 maximum) additional virtual systems and routers.

The 5500 series provides enterprises with a powerful and low-cost Gateway Security system that particularly addresses all UMA requirements of companies.

About Clavister
Clavister is a leading developer of high-performance IT/IP security. The products, based on unique technology, include carrier-class firewalls and VPN solutions. They have been awarded preferred choice by international press and are in use today by thousands of satisfied customers. In short; In a world where people depend on information, Clavister provides complete security solutions more cost-efficient than any competitor, always with Your business in mind.

Clavister was founded 1997 in Sweden. Its R&D and headquarters is situated in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden and its solutions are marketed and sold through sales offices, distributors and resellers in Europe and Asia. Clavister also offers its technology to OEM manufacturers.