Netgear intros under $500 VPN firewall for SMBs

SAN JOSE, Calif.: Netgear Inc., a provider in networking solutions, today announced the ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall (SRX5308).

This business firewall provides in excess of 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) performance for under $500, which translates to only $0.50 per Mbps, said a press release.

As the speed of WAN connections rise, and users turn to virtualization and cloud computing services, businesses need line-rate security devices that meet corporate governance requirements but also fall within budgetary requirements. The flagship of the NETGEAR ProSafe VPN Firewall family, the SRX5308 delivers on these requirements.

“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.

He added, “We know now that neither of those situations is the case — SMBs are using more and more advanced applications that require significant bandwidth and require enterprise-class security to protect that network.”

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) firewall for Small- to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) and distributed enterprises that provides business-class security, the SRX5308 delivers up to 1 Gbps of firewall throughput . 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.

The solution complements NETGEAR's ProSecure STM Content Security appliances, said the release.

Jason Leung, NETGEAR senior product line manager for SMB Security said, “As businesses increasingly rely on Internet bandwidth-intensive applications such as cloud computing, Web 2.0 and social media, and outsourced applications, they require a high-performance network that doesn’t leave them exposed or vulnerable.”

He further said that with four Gigabit WAN ports, session-based load balancing and a multitude of configuration options, our SRX5308 ProSafe Firewall is able to achieve ultra-fast performance between networks.