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GateD Routing Software by NextHop Technologies, Inc.

Product Version Certified: GateD v10.0
Certified for use with: Check Point Next Generation

Product Description:  NextHop GateD™, the de facto standard, is the most widely used vendor-neutral routing software for deployment of IPv4, IPv6 Unicast & Multicast networks - protocols supported include OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, PIM, DVMRP, MSDP, MP-BGP, RIPng and IS-IS for IPv6. GateD is the first Internet protocol routing source code product to support a XML Routing API.

     
Key Features and Benefits
OPSEC Integration 		  NextHop Technologies, Inc.
 
Company Description: NextHop™ Technologies Inc. is the definitive source for network routing software solutions. NextHop's flagship product, GateD™, the de facto standard, is the most widely used vendor-neutral routing software in the world. NextHop partners with its customers and the industry to empower innovation in networking with safe and reliable products that reduce time to market while minimizing development, testing and support costs. NextHop customers include Riverstone Networks, Nortel Networks, Juniper Networks and several other leading network equipment vendors. Founded in 2000 and funded by New Enterprise Associates, Labrador Ventures, and Parker Price Venture Capital, NextHop is based in Mountain View, Calif.
 
 
Key Features and Benefits

NextHop GateD Enterprise Features

  • IPv4 Unicast & Multicast Protocol Support - RIP v1/v2, OSPF, BGP, PIM (SM, SSM, DM), DVMRP, MSDP
  • Choice of Management Interfaces - CLI, XML, or gated.conf
  • Easy install -Solaris Package Manager or Linux RPM
  • OS Support - Solaris 8 and 9, Linux 2.4 (RedHat 8.0)
  • Proven Stability and Reliability

Benefits

  • Lower equipment and operational costs for increased ROI
  • Ability to deploy Layer 3 routing with other IT applications on a single server platform
  • Support for new network features- like multicasting-without hardware upgrades
  • Platform portability and scalability
  • Reduced network downtime
  • Applications such as Redundant firewall failover, Secure multicast transmissions and Reliable server clusters
OPSEC Integration

NextHop GateD operates seamlessly with Check Point Firewall1/VPN-1 Software on Linux and Solaris platforms.

NextHop GateD OSPF along with Check Point FW1 can be run on multiple servers to provide for redundancy. GateD OSPF implementation is fully compliant with OSPF version 2, RFC 2328. It supports both Type 1 and Type 2 external routes, multiple areas, area border router functionality, and virtual links. Additionally, it operates over broadcast, point-to-point, point-to-multi-point, and NBMA networks.

A combination of Check Point software and NextHop multicast technologies can be used to enable secure multicast applications. e primary items included with each multicast routing protocol are the MBR, MRT, and IGMP. The MBR (Multicast Border Router) functionality is used to give ownership of differentinterfaces to different multicast routing protocols. This is necessary so that more than one protocol can be run on the box at the same time. The MRT (Multicast Routing Table) maintains the state associated with sources and groups, which is subsequently fed to the forwarding engine. IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) is a basic building block for multicast routing that allows hosts to report their group memberships to routers.