Most medium to large enterprises maintain branch locations for access to customers, employees, and other resources. Providing network services to multiple branches presents challenges:

• Ensuring that branch-office personnel have secure access to core business applications
• Providing secure connectivity among branches as well as with the corporate headquarters
• Maintaining IT assets at remote locations that have little or no IT staff on site
• Provisioning multi-threat IT protection scaled to the cost structure of branch locations

A growing number of organizations insist on Celestix security solutions in their main and branch-location IT infrastructures. Celestix appliances provide the right applications and have industry-leading features for ease of deployment, management, and software updates as well as simple-to-use business continuity functions that minimize IT staff requirements at remote locations.

MSA™ appliances provide the foundation for secure IT architectures for branch offices. Deploying as platforms for Microsoft ISA Server 2000 software, MSA appliances provide reverse-proxy and content caching capabilities that let administrators publish core applications for use at branch locations. As standalone security appliances, MSAs provide branch locations with application-layer firewalls, IPsec VPNs, intrusion detection as well as other key security functions. MSA appliances integrate seamlessly with your Microsoft infrastructure. With several models to choose from, MSA appliances scale seamlessly to your core and branch requirements.

WSA™ appliances deploy Microsoft IAG 2007 SSL VPN software to create secure tunnels among branch and core networks to ensure secure communications among locations and users from virtually any protected or unprotected endpoint.

WSX™ appliances make sense for managers at branch locations who want to add Websense web filtering and web security to manage employee web usage and prevent harm from web-based threats. Managers at each branch location can specify policies for web access appropriate to their culture and business requirements. Celestix purpose built WSX appliances to be platforms for Websense Express software, Websense's SMB, branch office edition.