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The firewall's market protagonists (1)

Protagonists in the embedded firewall area

Networks/Telecom Giants: Cisco, Nortel, Lucent, 3Com

Business changes of the protagonists

Checkpoint & Nokia: from software to hardware business, the firewall become a router, the switch become a firewall

Arrival of new protagonists:

IPsec devices manufacturers: Redcreek, Timestep, etc

Quality of service devices manufacturers

End-users electronic market giants: Thomson-RCA, Philips, Ericsson, Nokia, Sony

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