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Avenda (News - Alert) Systems specializing in identity-based network access security announced that its eTIPS AAA and NAC platform is optimizing network deployments for many customers.

According to company sources the solution is replacing Cisco (News - Alert) Access Control Server or ACS at customer locations. Avenda’s eTIPS platform is able to deliver greater functionality, and cost effectively supports any vendors’ network devices besides being easy to maintain.

The company’s fine-grained policy controls provide a new level of authorization flexibility. As customers are now forced to support a wider variety of users including employees, guests, contractors and managed and unmanaged devices like laptops, smartphones, tablet PCs, it become imperative to differentiate access privileges among users.

In a release Ron Griggs, VP of IT at Kenyon College said, “Here at Kenyon College, we replaced unreliable ACS (News - Alert) appliances with the Avenda solution, which allowed us to meet the changing demands of our user community. We have been impressed with the solid performance of the Avenda solution -- it feels like a product that has been around for 20 years.”

Avenda’s eTIPS identity-based platform enables customers to leverage a full service solution for authenticating users and devices, besides improving visibility and control over all access transactions. Any user or device that does not meet authorization criteria can be restricted from accessing network resources until policy requirements are met, clarified company officials.

The integrated functionality and benefits offered by Avenda include Web-based interface that enables IT teams to centrally configure and control enterprise-wide policies across multiple locations; built-in guest access and Web-based authentication that simplifies access management for visitors, contractors, students. It also enables large and small scale clustering and redundancy that supports any size organization.

Ron DiBiase, VP of Sales at Avenda Systems said, “Avenda’s product innovation is proving advantageous over legacy solutions like Cisco's ACS, verified in competitive bakeoffs at customer sites and in Network World's (News - Alert) recent NAC roundup.”

“The ability to provide a clear technology advantage and service for Cisco ACS migrations has been a strong incentive for customers to evaluate and select Avenda,” DiBiase added.

Avenda’s Identity-based access control solution delivers employee, guest and endpoint access management for multi-vendor wired, wireless and VPN networks. The company finds place as a Visionary in Gartner’s (News - Alert) 2010 Magic Quadrant for Network Access Control report and named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity and Access Management, 2010.