SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA: SonicWALL, Inc., a leading secure network infrastructure company, has announced that SonicWALL's TZ 210 Wireless-N appliance has been awarded SC Magazine's 'Best Buy of the Month'.

Achieving the maximum five stars in every review category including performance, features, support and value for money, the SonicWALL solution was named "one of the most feature-rich unified threat managements (UTMs)" the publication has ever seen.

"We are honored that SC Magazine has not only found this SonicWALL solution to be a leading SMB-focused UTM appliance across all aspects of its review, but also selected it as its product of the month," said Matt Medeiros, president and chief executive officer of SonicWALL.

"We work hard to provide small and mid-sized businesses industry-leading network security protection with our TZ line of firewall appliances, and we believe we have the best solution available and the perfect choice for our current and future SMB customers."

Honored as SC Magazine's Best Buy of the Month, the appliance was recognized for its solid performance, value for money, excellent functionality and its features' ease-of-use and manageability.

Launched in January 2009, the TZ 210 is the fastest and most secure UTM solution in its class, and delivers SonicWALL's award-winning enterprise-class UTM and re-assembly free deep packet inspection (RFDPI) technologies to SMBs. With a wide range of features, including its ability to provide SMBs with a high performance, deep packet inspection firewall, the publication determined that the product exhibited all-round strength and was granted perfect marks in every review category.

"The TZ 210 includes a lot of great security and protection features, providing not only the basics, such as firewall, IPS and gateway anti-virus, but also built-in Wi-Fi support with security and a full web content filtering suite complete with IM and P2P filters," said SC Magazine's Peter Stephenson.