Lightning's Multi-Internet ® technology brings key competitive
advantages to ISPs and corporate customers, allowing them to use the
same simple path through the Internet for multiple uses.
Lightning's Multi-Internet Technology consists of five major inter-working components:
- Multi-PAT
- Multi-NAT
- Built-in SecureWall™ firewall
- Dynamic IP-address handling
- Fully classless TCP/IP routing
This
smart combination allows to virtually assign any internal (Intranet)
IP-address to any external (Internet or Extranet) IP-address, including
dynamically allocated addresses. Even groups of Intranet IP addresses
can be assigned to Internet-addresses. The above figure illustrates the
possible combinations and their applications.
To
be fully effective, Lightning's Multi-Internet-capable MultiCom routers
must be used in the remote location, while a Multi-Internet-aware ISP
setup should be made at the central location, either using Lightning
routers or existing equipment from third parties.
This new technology will allow ISPs to efficiently differentiate their
offering by providing new services with high added value.
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Application 1
Extranets and VPNs
Translating
specifical groups of Intranet computers to corresponding external
Internet addresses, routed into an Extranet over the Internet, allows
ISPs with an Extranet infrastructure to very simply connect Intranets
together, while providing Internet access to the rest of the internal
network.
This
application is useful in a variety of situations: multinational
companies with distributed departments, communities of companies
working together, schools with administration and education networks,
and so on.
Application 2:
Differentiated Internet Access
Sometimes,
different parts of a company need different Quality of Service (QoS)
for their Internet or Intranet access. Bundling different groups of
computers from the same location into distinct Internet or Extranet
addresses can allow the provision of differentiated Priority, Bandwidth
and Quality of Service: all costly features, which can now be applied
only to the parts of the company really needing them. Typical examples
include Internet and Intranet Servers, dedicated high-quality Extranet
services of ISPs. |
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Application 3
Linking multiple customers or even ISPs
Sometimes,
industrial buildings host multiple companies, which may want to share a
single access line to an Internet access. With Lightning's
Multi-Internet technology, this is now possible, providing each company
with a dedicated Internet access and own Internet addresses, but using
the same access line, be it ISDN or a leased line. ISPs are also users
of this new technology.
Application 4:
Remote Maintenance and Support
For
all branch-specific, customer-adapted, software applications, like
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications, the service company,
which installed the application, may also provide remote maintenance
service. The new Lightning Multi-Internet technology allows to route
and translate incompatible IP addresses of the customers into IP
addresses compatible with the service company's internal network,
providing on-line network-based remote maintenance to all customer's
servers and computers. All kinds of companies are interested in this
new Lightning technology. |
Oléane
France
Télécom's subsidiary Oléane, one of the major ISPs in France, approved
and uses Lightning's Multi-Internet technology, making the Pocket
MultiCom its only "Highly-Recommended" access-router for all its types
of ISDN Internet and Intranet accesses. |
Multi-Internet is available as a standard feature on all members
of the MultiCom family starting in software release 2.5 and 3.1. ® Multi-Internet is a registered trademark of Lightning MultiCom SA
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Lightning Flash No. 5
; "Multi-Internet applications and benefits")
