Alcatel Automated Quarantine Engine Specifications

Automated Quarantine Engine

The automatic isolation of non-compliant network devices
Do you long for the time when the biggest demand on your IT department was from
users who needed help retrieving forgotten passwords?
While IT life may never be quite that simple again, Alcatel's Automated Quarantine
Engine (AQE) can help you eliminate your biggest headache – security issues from
non-compliant external and internal devices by containing and isolating all security
threats to your enterprise network, and doing it in seconds!
Sound expensive? Actually, it will save you money because:
There's no additional hardware required on Alcatel switches
There's no additional software required on Alcatel switches
It's fully interoperable with other vendor switches
It cuts network downtime keeping employees up and running
So how does this work? A good analogy is what has happened in the travel industry over
the past few years. For example, a few years ago when you arrived at an airport, you
would get in a check-in line that wrapped back-and-forth endlessly. Ticketing and check-in
was a labor and time intensive operation. Airlines realized that if they could offload labor to
an automated check-in process, that they could save money by cutting staff costs, and help
passengers by expediting the process.
Now, most travelers are able to walk up to an airline's kiosk, insert an identification card
such as a driver's license, select a seat, and get a boarding pass in less than a minute and
be on their way. Problem passengers are isolated and required to check-in via an agent, but
only as a last resort, saving the airline money, and most passengers a great deal of time.
Your network security should be this automated and fast!