VPNPICS

768 x 512 135.6K Check Point came in at the beginning. You can still see the lab, because we haven't stacked everything up.

413 x 421 51.4K Redcreek has the fastest-booting device, something we came to appreciate during the days of agony that were to come.

512 x 768 78.2K Data Fellows demonstrated that you could actually make an NT machine do crypto pretty fast.

768 x 512 121.3K Later, we got to take a group picture.

451 x 468 68.2K Shiva (errr.... Intel, as of a few weeks ago) gets the prize for "most air space" in a VPN device.

768 x 512 96.5K The Internet Dynamics guys had excellent shirts. Plus they were willing to come in at night---tremendous patience with us!

768 x 512 130.3K The Lucent folks had a hard time with the install, so we almost never got to see Harvey. He did, however, stay an extra day for the Mexican food.

695 x 723 137.1K VPNet had a smooth install and very impressive performance. Plus their boxes weren't totally oversized like SOME folks.

597 x 508 90.9K Radguard came up with the best looking boxes of all, with that cool retro-50s bracket which holds the crypto-key. I don't know why Dan has a rainbow around him---but he is from Israel.

512 x 768 98.8K Network Alchemy wins in the performance category, but more importantly, as "ugliest VPN device" AND as "heaviest VPN device." Plus they also had good shirts.

528 x 210 35.3K The Microsoft and Entrust people helped us take a much needed break from a crushing schedule.

334 x 438 48.9K This is the only part of our tests where "going up in flames" was considered a good thing. You can see the Opus One 1994 bottle in the foreground---we drank a lot of that.