Message-ID: <01f201c1bbda$d7b4a790$c500000a@juniper> From: "Renee McDonald" <reneem@iea-software.com> Subject: Re: [Emerald] Email servers that integrate with Emerald Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:53:08 -0800
Jason,
I was forwarded this message to supply you with upgrade information. I show
your company (Nebraska Central Telephone Company) is licensed for 2100 MBRs.
The cost to upgrade those to Emerald 4.0 Standard Edition is $3108, Emerald
4.0 Professional is $3708.00, and Emerald 4.0 Enterprise is $4908.00. The
differences in editions are the version of Radius that is bundled. I have
included those differences below.
Please let me know if you need addtional information.
Regards,
Renee McDonald
Sales Executive
IEA Software, Inc.
(509) 444-2455 ext. 106
reneem@iea-software.com
With advanced features such as Concurrency Control, SNMP Control, Smart
Proxy, Roaming Support, Load Balancing, Tunable Cache and an administrative
Web GUI, along with available advanced features in the Enterprise edition
including an External API, Token-based Authentication, LDAP Client and
TACACS+ Client, you can proactively manage analyze and troubleshoot your
network with significant value and power at considerable savings over other
RADIUS solutions.
What's new in Version 4?
a. Support for MS CHAP v1, v2, MPPE Keys (RFC2548)
b. Tunnel attributes are now supported (RFC 2868) - For setting up IP
tunnels
c. IP pooling (Nortel CVX)
d. Updated dictionary - New Attributes added to Dictionary file.
e. DNIS Reverse lookup - Instead of Allowed numbers, now supports
NON-allowed numbers
f. Stored procedure enhancements for Oracle - Uses Stored Procedures
instead of SQL queries
g Ability to set search order of authentication methods - Since all servers
share the same database
information, you can have multiple servers for different regions or pops
and still enforce concurrency
control over your entire dialup servers.
h. Web-based admin
i. Improvements to smart cache technology
Professional Edition Features and Benefits
a. Based on industry-standard RADIUS protocols, an official Internet RFC
for subscriber authentication and an informational RFC for accounting
b. Authentication (RFC2865)
c. Accounting (RFC2865)
d. Supports open systems environments
e. Authenticates users from Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) data
sources such as MS SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle, NT SAM, LDAP servers, UNIX
shadow password files, plain text files
f. Distributed concurrency control
g. Integrated support for SNMP
h. Logging to syslog host
i. Allows for multiple and backup databases
j. Provides for hashed user lookups
k. Scheduled reloading of users file
l. Smart caching
m. Spooling and batch transactions
n. Attribute Proxy based rules
o. Strip domain capabilities for flexible roaming support
p. IP address pool management
q. DNIS restriction and access
r. Server and port access controls
s. Adaptable database schema
t. Provides rating beyond name & password
u. Real-time online view
v. User-updatable RADIUS dictionary
w. Tunable cache configuration
x. SNMP Manager
y. MS CHAP v1, v2, MPPE Keys (RFC2548)
z. Tunnel attribute support (RFC 2868)
aa. Proxy and roaming support
ab. Load balancing, failover, store and forward
ac. Eliminates the need to maintain separate subscriber lists for security
and billing, and enables enhanced
billing schemes such as network usage and time online
ad.. Allows system administrator to manage network from any location
ae. Keeps intruders out by interacting with RADIUS-compliant security
devices
af. Compatible with RADIUS-compliant NAS including those from Lucent,
Nortel, Cisco, 3COM, Shiva and more
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Enterprise Edition Features and Benefits
Includes all Professional Edition features plus:
a. Token-based authenticationAuthentication (for RSA Security's SecureID,
Axent/Symantec's Defender and Secure Computing's Safeword)
b. External authentication API
c. LDAP client
d. TACACS+ client
e. Logged accounting and proxy
System Requirements
RadiusNT
RadiusNT runs on any Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 workstation or server.
It is administered from Windows NT, either remotely or locally. The system
requirements on Windows systems are:
Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000
NT4 Service Pack 5 or higher
128MB of RAM or greater
30MB or greater disk space
Pentium 200 or greater
Web browser (Netscape 4.72+ or IE 5.01+)
RadiusNT runs with the relational databases listed below. You need to have a
working knowledge of your database. Please use the following guidelines:
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or SQL Server 2000
Sybase SQL Server 11.9.2
Oracle Server 8.0
Microsoft Access 7.0
Service Packs for the Windows NT operating system can be obtained from
Microsoft Corporation. For links to Microsoft's Drivers, Patches and Sample
Files location on the World Wide Web, please see Microsoft's Web site at
www.microsoft.com.
RadiusX
RadiusX is built individually for Solaris and Linux installations. The
system requirements for RadiusX are:
Solaris 2.6 or higher, RedHat Linux 6.2 or higher
128MB of RAM or greater
30MB or greater disk space
Perl 5.0 or higher (for installation use only)
Web browser (Netscape 4.72+ or IE 5.01+)
RadiusX for Cobalt runs on the RaQ3, RaQ4 and Qube3 server appliances. It is
administered either remotely or locally.
The system requirements for RadiusX for Cobalt are:
64MB of RAM or greater
30MB or greater disk space
Perl 5.0 or greater (for installation use only)
RadiusX can authenticate against a password file, users file, or an ODBC
database. The supported relational databases for RadiusX are:
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or SQL Server 2000
Sybase SQL Server 11.9.2
Oracle Server 8.0
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Roblyer" <jason@nctc.net>
To: <emerald@iea-software.com>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Emerald] Email servers that integrate with Emerald
> Jason, my understanding is that V4 is required for integration with IMail,
> is that correct? We're still using 2.5 here and not sure if having Imail
is
> worth the upgrade costs of Emerald MBRs. Can anyone give me an idea of
what
> a per MBR upgrade costs? IEA's website says to call and I'd rather just
> have the numbers.
>
> I'm leaning heavily towards VOPMail because of native support for ODBC
> authentication. Does IMail still have to use EmerAuth?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason Roblyer
> NCTC.NET
> jason@nctc.net
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Newland" <newlandj@areatech.com>
> To: <emerald@iea-software.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:46 PM
> Subject: RE: [Emerald] Email servers that integrate with Emerald
>
>
> > Emerald has actually made several improvements to the imail integration
> > lately. We have been testing it, and it seems to work really well now.
> >
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: emerald-request@iea-software.com
> > [mailto:emerald-request@iea-software.com] On Behalf Of Jason Roblyer
> > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 6:05 AM
> > To: emerald@iea-software.com
> > Subject: [Emerald] Email servers that integrate with Emerald
> >
> > Ok, I'm looking for mail servers that integrate with Emerald's db.
> >
> > So far I have come up with:
> > MailSite from Rockliffe
> > VOPMail from Vircom
> >
> > and
> > IMAIL from Ipswitch.
> >
> > Imail is reportedly not very good at the intergration, I'm leaning
> > towards
> > VOPMail myself. Does anyone have any suggestions or comments they'd
> > like to
> > share?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Jason Roblyer
> > NCTC.NET
> > jason@nctc.net
> >
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