Hard-copy technical manuals

You can print selected technical manuals and release notes free, directly from the
Internet. Go to the www.nortel.com/support URL. Find the product for which you
need documentation. Then locate the specific category and model or version for
your hardware or software product. Use Adobe* Acrobat Reader* to open the
manuals and release notes, search for the sections you need, and print them on
most standard printers. Go to Adobe Systems at the www.adobe.com URL to
download a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

How to get Help

This section explains how to get help for Nortel products and services.

Getting Help from the Nortel Web site

The best source of support for Nortel products is the Nortel Support Web site:

http://www.nortel.com/support

This site enables customers to:

• download software and related tools

• download technical documents, release notes, and product bulletins
• sign up for automatic notification of new software and documentation
• search the Support Web site and Nortel Knowledge Base
• open and manage technical support cases

Getting Help over the phone from a Nortel Solutions Center

If you have a Nortel support contract and cannot find the information you require
on the Nortel Support Web site, you can get help over the phone from a
Nortel Solutions Center.

In North America, call 1-800-4NORTEL (1-800-466-7835).

Outside North America, go to the Web site below and look up the phone number
that applies in your region:

http://www.nortel.com/callus

When you speak to the phone agent, you can reference an Express Routing Code
(ERC) to more quickly route your call to the appropriate support specialist.
To locate the ERC for your product or service, go to:

http://www.nortel.com/erc

Getting Help through a Nortel distributor or reseller

If you purchased a service contract for your Nortel product from a distributor or
authorized reseller, you can contact the technical support staff for that distributor
or reseller.
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Chapter 1
Overview

This chapter introduces the Nortel Contivity Secure IP Services Gateway. The
Contivity Secure IP Services Gateway is a family of products that deliver security
and IP services in a single integrated platform. With IP routing, Virtual Private
Networking (VPN), stateful firewall, policy management and QoS services, a
single Contivity gateway device offers the IP services that normally require
multiple purpose devices. Designed for enterprise networks, the Contivity
gateway leverages the cost advantages of the Internet while providing secure
communications across the public IP infrastructure.

As a highly scalable device, the Contivity gateway can address the security and IP
services needs of the smallest branch site or largest headquarters environment. A
Contivity gateway can be installed as an IP access router, VPN gateway, or stateful
packet firewall.

The Contivity Secure IP Services Gateway incorporates Nortel’s Secure Routing

Technology (SRT). SRT is a software framework that provides a security structure
through all Contivity gateway operational components, including IP routing,
VPN, firewall, and policy services. This allows for management consistency and
scalable performance even when running multiple IP services in the same device.
SRT also provides dynamic routing (RIP/OSPF) over secure IPsec tunnels,
uniform security policies across VPN, routing, and firewall services and a flexible
software licensing scheme.

Network deployment alternatives

With its combination of secure, manageable, and scalable features, you can shift
information technology resources from solving the current remote user access
problems to other, more proactive administrative and management areas. And you
can eliminate modem-management pool problems from your organization and
shift them to your extranet provider.

Configuring Basic Features for the Contivity Secure IP Services Gateway

 Extranet access allows remote users to dial in to an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
anywhere and reach corporate headquarters or branch offices. The extranet provides
remote users access to corporate databases, mail servers, and file servers. Figure 1
shows a typical packet data network (PDN).

Figure 1 Typical PDN

The Contivity gateway allows ISPs to take over the role of point-of-presence (POP)
providers of modem access. It improves performance while lowering overhead,
which translates to significant corporate savings.

Virtual private networking

A VPN is a private data communication channel that uses a public IP network as the
basic transport for connecting corporate data centers, remote offices, mobile
employees, telecommuters, customers, suppliers, and business partners.
Physically discontiguous networks are made to appear logically connected and
contiguous.

A remote access VPN service requires the creation and operation of a secure tunnel
between client software on a remote device, such as a PC, and host software on a
VPN security gateway, such as a Contivity gateway.

Figure 2 on page 23 shows examples of VPN services.

Configuring Basic Features for the Contivity Secure IP Services Gateway