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* Protagonists in the embedded firewall area
o Networks/Telecom Giants: Cisco, Nortel, 3Com, Lucent
* Business changes of the protagonists
o Checkpoint + Nokia: from software to hardware business
* Arrival of new protagonists:
o IPsec devices manufacturers: Redcreek, Timestep, etc
o Quality of service devices manufacturers
o End-users electronic market giants: Thomson-RCA, Philips, Ericsson, Nokia, Sony
o Could Europe be back?
* Unpredictable Actors
o Microsoft "firewall inside" ?
* Absent Actors
o Is Alcatel waiting for Siemens to buy 3Com?
* What's left for firewall server protagonists?
o Checkpoint, NAI, Axent, Bull
o Could marketing save them ?
o Linux: the free, high-performance and user-friendly firewall
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