Has anyone here used or evaluated any SSL VPN appliances such as the Nortel Alteo, or products available from safeweb(now owned by symantec) or Neoteris(now owned by netscreen I think)?

I am beginning to evaluate some of these solutions to fill certain needs at work, and was just hoping someone could give me some first hand opinions. I can(and have) certainly search google for as much information and reveiws as I could possibly want, but am looking for some knowledgeable non journalist opinions.

As far as applications go, we would be fairly straightforward, securing web based email, web based phone system access(change voicemail settings, and listen to voice mail from a site built into an NBX), access to personal files for a certain number of users(not all by far), web based timecards, an intranet with access to any number of different things which we have coded ourselves all browser based stuff though, perhaps terminal access for some users(applicable models only of course), citrix nfuse(for some users perhaps) and maybe a few other things which I cannot think of at the moment. Every thing is a standard type app, nothing out of the ordinary except for our intranet, which is all just browser based anyway.

Getting all of these different apps secured seperately, and maintaining all the different firewall rules, vpn setups, etc. is starting to become a major hassle. A single point of entry to all these different apps would be very very nice, and several of the ssl vpn appliances out there claim to do just what we need.

So, any real experience??????


Thanks,

IchNiSan