Netgear Launches Sub-$500 Gigabit Firewall for Businesses

Netgear has launched SRX5308, the ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall. The product is being positioned as first business firewall to provide in excess of 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) performance for under $500.

Enterprises using virtualization and cloud computing services and needing need line-rate security devices to meet corporate governance requirement can utilize SRX5308. With four Gigabit WAN ports that provide session-based load balancing, it gives customers a secure, “no compromises” network that can support sophisticated multimedia and the higher throughput applications they need to grow their businesses. With a line rate of up to 1 Gigabit per second, the SRX5308 is easily able to handle the throughput of our large data pipe —50 Mbps.

The ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall (SRX5308) features a hardware-accelerated data flow architecture that enables 1 Gbps LAN-to-WAN of stateful firewall throughput. Further, the SRX5308 affords remote users the ability to build VPN tunnels to the corporate office to access centralized data using the IP Security (IPsec) standard or software clientless Secure Socket Layers (SSL), said a press release. The SRX5308 firewall supports up to 125 IPsec VPN tunnels and 50 SSL VPN tunnels simultaneously, for enhanced protection from network security threats.

IPsec VPN tunnels deliver secure site-to-site tunnels connecting multiple offices together, as well as legacy, client-based remote access. SSL VPN tunnels enable clientless, individual remote access to corporate data, anytime and anywhere — without needing to install a software client. In addition, the SSL VPNs support industry-strength encryption algorithms and features such as automatic cache cleanup after session termination to ensure protection and privacy of sensitive data. “In years past, it was easy to assume that smaller businesses didn’t have the bandwidth or security requirements of larger organizations,” said Jon Crotty, research analyst for security products and services at IDC, the global provider of market intelligence.

The sophisticated SRX5308 VPN router is a high-performance, SNMP-manageable network solution furnishing multidimensional security, such as denial-of-service (DoS) attack protection, Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) to curb hacker threats, URL keyword filtering, SYSLOG support, configurable hardware DMZ port, e-mail reporting, logging and real-time alerts. Quality-of-Service (QoS), WAN traffic metering, and bandwidth profiling give network managers granular bandwidth management capabilities, while VLAN support enables separation of guest traffic from critical production servers. Four Gigabit LAN ports enable maximum internal data transfer speeds, while the four Gigabit WAN ports provide two modes of session-based load balancing as well as failover protection to ensure maximum throughput and reliable connectivity to the Internet. For more details about Netgear Gigabit Firewall on www.itvarnews.net