The group's principal activities are to develop, market and sell communications platform to enable the network service providers to rapidly deliver computer applications and communication services. The products of the group include virtual private networks, firewalls and secure broadband access. Virtual private networks run on the Internet and other communications networks. Firewalls are security programs that are designed to prevent unwanted network traffic and secure broadband access secure high-speed access to the Internet and other communications networks. The group's Internet protocol service delivery platform consists of hardware elements, such as chassis, service processing switches and electronic circuit boards known as ipsgs (Internet protocol service generators) and software components consisting of 'invision' for service network management and 'ingage' for customer network management.