What Is The i-Planet Software?

The i-Planet software is a unique solution that provides a company's remote and travelling employees with worldwide remote access to the corporate network over the Internet from any computer with a Java-enabled web browser. The i-Planet software acts as a mediator between users coming in through the Internet to the corporate intranet. It provides secure end-user connectivity across all networks and a uniform, familiar, web browser-based interface.

The i-Planet software lets companies:

• Leverage the public network and Internet service providers (ISPs) to reduce costs.

• Increase productivity with better access to information.

• Simplify remote access for end users.

• Access anytime, anywhere with any computer with a browser. This means that the client could be behind a web proxy or a firewall.

The i-Planet software lets administrators:

• Authenticate Internet-based end users with a convenient, secure one-time password scheme or the plug-in authentication module of your choice.

• Implement access control technology that greatly increases intranet security.

• Allow secure access to electronic mail servers, web servers, and file servers.

• Allow users to have access through a web browser-based interface, sharply reducing learning curve and training time for remote end users.

• Administer the i-Planet software through an easy-to-use browser-based interface.

• Install an optional packet-filtering firewall application based on proven Sun Microsystems' SunScreen technology.

The i-Planet product provides a corporation and its remote and travelling employees with cost-effective, fast, secure access to corporate information, personal email, applications, and internal web sites. It provides this access at anytime, from anywhere, and from any platform that uses Netscape 4.06 with Java Advanced Windowing Toolkit (AWT) 1.1 support (or Netscape 4.04 or 4.05 with the JDK^TM 1.1 patch) or greater and Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater. The Java^TM Developers Kit (JDK) 1.1 patch from Netscape contains AWT 1.1 and greater support for JDK 1.1.

The i-Planet software consists of two main components:

• The i-Planet gateway--contains the software for the i-Planet gateway and the software for the (optional) i-Planet firewall application

• The i-Planet server --contains the software for the i-Planet platform and the software for the i-Planet applications.

You can install the i-Planet software on:

• One machine

• Two machines--With the i-Planet gateway on one machine and the i-Planet server on another. This is the preferred configuration.