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New Smoothwall SWG-3600 & UTM-3000 Appliances

- Friday, January 06, 2012Smoothwall

Bigger. Faster. Optional go faster stripes and big spoiler. The time comes when you really need to have a bit more space and a bit more oomph! Smoothwall’s new hardware appliances the UTM-3000 and the SWFG-3600 appliances have both in spades.

SWG-3600R.pngDesigned and built to deliver a stress free solution for demanding LA and school network managers they tick all the spec boxes.  Reliable hardware based on Dell’s PowerEdge server platform, twin 6-core Intel Xeon processors with 12GB RAM and pair of 1TB RAID SATA disks and very fancy high performance NICs (plus optional go faster stripes and a big spoiler).

Couple the hardware with Smoothwall’s British designed, engineered and supported web filtering and security software and you’ve got a serious race ready package.

Smoothwall Guardian Web Security Appliance
With dynamic web content analysis (DfE/Becta Accredited), 'who, what, when, where' policy tools and filtering of HTTPS.  Controls of: anonymous proxies, Instant Messaging, social-networking, blogging, file-uploads, P2P sharing, video and Flash files.  Support for mobile devices#, YouTube education, read-only Facebook and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) schemes.  And, detailed reporting & live traffic graphs - there’s everything you need to protect your users, network and ultimately your organisation.

Smoothwall UTM Appliance
A fully featured firewall with External Attack Defence using Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and stateful and deep packet inspection. Internal Network Segregation to protect critical and confidential resources by internal zoning and segregation. Smoothwall DfE/Becta Accredited Guardian Web Security web access control and dynamic content filtering. Effective perimeter malware protection. VPN Gateway that can manage up to 500 secure gateways.  WAN aggregation. Email security with anti-spam and phishing detection. Efficient load balancing for in-coming and out-going traffic across multiple internet connections including fail-over protocols. And, Internet Access Control with User Authentication.