Rabobank relies on comForte's SecurTN and J6530 to provide secure NonStop application access for some 35000 users from 328 bank branches in 1734 locations. When migrating from X.25 to TCP/IP, security, manageability and robustness were paramount when looking for a solution to support the new infrastructure. SecurTN and J6530 proved to be the ideal fit for the bank's requirements.

SecurTN, a high volume secure telnet server, is able to provide SSL access for 1000 and more concurrent sessions with a single process. Migrating to SecurTN simplified the environment which beforehand consisted of 16 X.25 processes per system. All up to 5000 concurrent sessions can now be handled by the application host using a single IP address and port number, which significantly eases the application access management. J6530, a 6530 terminal emulator Java applet, which is deployed centrally on the corporate intranet web servers, eliminated the need to install new software on the user workstations and provided instant secure SSL sessions with SecurTN.

comForte and SummaEST, Benelux distribution partner for comForte's products, supported Rabobank throughout the implementation. "Rabobank was very pleased to work with comForte and SummaEST. They proved to be very keen on providing the right solution." said Andre Hoekstra, Rabobank's project leader. "comForte and SummaEST have shared Rabobank's issues and concerns and actively participated in the project. Both companies and the software are very flexible." Jan Looij, clustermanager, states: "I have never seen a project like this going that smoothly. We were impressed with comForte's and SummaEST's competence, support and flexibility all the way through from early analysis and proof of concept to the final rollout."