Authentication

Brocade network products have been validated with best-in-class authentication solutions, including those based on RADIUS, Windows login, and other popular authentication techniques. With security partners such as McAfee, Brocade is engaged in interoperability and co-development efforts to support the most popular industry-standard authentication solutions, and validate that its network, security, and traffic management solutions work seamlessly in a wide range of environments.

Brocade IronShield 360 security supports a variety of authentication mechanisms that serve the needs of many organizations. These include RADIUS-based 802.1x, MAC, and Web authentication. Brocade Layer 2 and 3 switches and routers have been tested for interoperability, scalability, and reliability with a number of best-in-class RADIUS server implementations, including Microsoft Internet Authentication Server (IAS) and Windows supplicant; Juniper Networks Steel-Belted RADIUS Series [formerly known as Funk Software’s Steel Belted RADIUS (SBR)] and Odyssey Client; the open source FreeRadius product; Cisco Access Control Server (ACS); Radiator; and Infoblox.

Brocade edge products can support different authentication mechanisms on a per-port basis. This enables converged endpoint security and authentication in the case where multiple users are on the same port, or a client PC shares a port with an IP phone or multimedia device.

Brocade Web authentication support provides security for sites that might not control the end hosts, or have a multitude of different OS types. This is ideal for university and hotspot environments that need to protect network access but cannot place supplicants on the end clients. In this type of environment, users attempting to access the Web are redirected via the Brocade switch servicing them to validate their credentials.

Together with the best-in-class RADIUS vendor solutions, Brocade supports the industry’s most well known authentication techniques. This enables organizations to choose the authentication technique and vendor that best suits their needs and does not lock them into proprietary solutions.

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