Johannesburg, 17 Sep 2018
A new, managed security router has been announced by Netgear. Dubbed the Insight Instant VPN Business Router (BR500), it is the vendor's first to be managed by its Insight Cloud Portal or mobile application.
The router is targeted at small to medium-sized businesses or remote office/branch offices that require instant access to their organisations' intranet through a secure virtual private network (VPN) from anywhere in the world.
According to Tobie van Schalkwyk, business development manager at Duxbury Networking, the local Netgear distributor, the new router is designed to interconnect up to three offices as if they were connected locally, regardless of their geographical location.
"Many businesses today have employees working remotely, either on the move or from branch offices. They often require access to company network resources in an easy and secure way.
"The new Netgear Insight Instant VPN Business Router facilitates this, providing access to data residing on the office network with a single touch on a smartphone screen or a click on a laptop."
Van Schalkwyk notes the Netgear Insight Instant VPN Business Router assists employees to easily share IT resources such as file servers, network-attached storage or other business-critical assets.
He says the new router enables businesses to cost-effectively protect their networks with a secure VPN and firewall through the Insight Cloud Portal or mobile app, which comes with easy set-up, a "one-step" instant VPN, and anywhere remote/cloud monitoring and management.
With the Insight Cloud, users get full monitoring of all security features, remote management of the router, real-time visibility of the VPN connection and the security status of connected devices.
Van Schalkwyk says the new Netgear offering leverages the intuitive simplicity of the vendor's Insight Management solution to implement the industry's easiest VPN set-up.
"With one simple step, businesses can now feel confident that their employees have secure access to the tools and files they need when required, no matter where they are."
From a technical perspective, Netgear Insight provides:
* The VPN Business Router hardware status, temperature, port speeds, CPU load, memory utilisation.
* The VPN connection status: connected/disconnected, number of connected users, method of authentication, current traffic, visited destination from guest portal, sites connected (for site-to-site VPN), volume of data exchanged and timestamp of the connection.
* Firewall rule configuration and update, NAT traversal, port forwarding, FTP.
The NETGEAR Insight Instant VPN Business Router includes:
* 1 x WAN and 4 x LAN gigabit Ethernet ports.
* LAN-to-WAN throughput: 924Mbps.
* Remote/cloud management and monitoring all from a "single pane of glass".
* Instant, one-step VPN through the mobile app and Web portal (site-to-site/remote).
* Firewall capabilities to protect against intrusion and boost security.
All Netgear Insight managed products are fully integrated and cloud-manageable devices, requiring no additional hardware to connect directly to the Insight cloud and can be managed remotely.
Netgear Insight is available as either a free app for iOS and Android mobile devices or as a Web portal accessible from any Internet-connected Web browser. The new Insight Cloud Web portal offers the advantage of a larger display screen, ideal for configuring larger port-count switches such as Netgear's new 28/52-port Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switches.
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