SnapGear SG720
The SG720 is the flagship of the SnapGear’s SG Series of firewall/VPN appliances. With multi-megabit throughput, three fast Ethernet ports standard, and two additional gigabit ports, the ICSA-certified SG720 is an excellent solution for branch offices of large organizations, as well as central offices of small to mid-sized enterprises (SME).
The SG720 provides central site VPN, firewall and session load balancing capabilities with the capacity to securely connect hundreds of mobile and remote employees. The SNORT-based IDS adds an extra security layer by detecting attacks and alerting administrator so that countermeasures can be implemented quickly before the network is compromised. With its rich feature set and rack-optimized form factor, the SG720 is a compelling enterprise-class firewall solution at a mid-market price.
The SG720 also includes gateway e-mail virus scanning to stop many e-mail borne viruses before they reach desktop systems and servers.
Flexible Network Configuration with Bandwidth Optimization
The SG720 supports three 10/100 Fast Ethernet (FE) segments and dual GbE ports, extending the total number of Ethernet segments to five. Central and remote networks can connect to the Internet through a variety of broadband (ADSL, SHDSL and Cable) or dedicated high-speed copper (T-1, T-2, fractional T-3 and full T-3) or fiber circuits (OC-1 to OC-3).
The SG720 improves available Internet bandwidth and connection uptime by providing traffic load balancing across dual WAN links while an embedded web proxy cache, based on Squid, further accelerates web page downloads. This makes the SG720 an excellent solution for organizations that are power web users or have many remote offices accessing corporate intranets. Bandwidth can be further optimized through traffic shaping controls. Customers wishing to protect against access to inappropriate web material can purchase an URL content filtering (UCF) subscription service. This works in conjunction with the URL proxy embedded in the SG720 to increase productivity and available bandwidth. The combination supports blocking, monitoring, rating and optional reporting without the need for an on-site URL database.
Fully Integrated IDS Assures Maximum Security
Although all SG firewall/VPN appliances defend against Denial of Service and other common attacks, the SG720 raises the bar by detecting "suspicious" activity before it escalates into a full-blown network intrusion.
Web Cache for Rapid Web Response Time
The SG720 incorporates a powerful web proxy cache to improve web page response time and reduce link loads. Designed to integrate seamlessly with upstream proxy caches provided by ISPs, the SG720 allows complete tuning of the service using the management console GUI and command-line interface. More...
Fail-over and Load-Balancing
Increase uptime and boost performance by connecting the SG720’s two broadband links to different Internet providers, and then combining these into a single “virtualised” high performance connection. A network outage on either link will automatically switch traffic to the operational link via the built-in link fail-over features. The resulting network redundancy makes it possible to reduce by half the number of security appliances required to protect a network while preserving maximum throughout and uptime. The traffic load-balancing feature also boosts the performance of Web transfers and the stability of a company network connected by DSL to the Internet.
Demilitarized Zones (DMZ)
Administrators can improve on-site and remote employee productivity without compromising security by creating DMZs that segment the network into private and public security zones. Typically, the private network will be used to secure “internal” data while the DMZ permits access to e-mail servers, web servers, and other “public” applications and content.
Comprehensive VPN capabilities for Remote Access and Multi-site Access
The SG720 includes a high-performance, VPNC-certified VPN solution for securely connecting branch office networks to the corporate hub using IPsec, PPTP, L2TP, and other industry-standard protocols. Onboard DES, 3DES, and AES cryptographic acceleration ensures excellent VPN throughput, with support for T-3 and OC-1 encrypted connections.
Anti-Virus Features
The CyberGuard SG appliance’s antivirus capabilities shield your LAN from viruses that
propagate through email, the web and FTP. An antivirus subscription is not required and
virus definitions are automatically kept up-to-date.
The CyberGuard SG appliance is equipped with proxies for POP, SMTP, HTTP and FTP
that facilitate the transparent scanning of files passing through it. If a virus is detected,
the user on your LAN sending or receiving the infected file or email is informed by an
error message or error email, and the infected file or email is not delivered to its destination.
Web Cache Features
TWeb browsers running on PCs on your LAN can use the CyberGuard SG appliance’s
proxy-cache server to reduce Internet access time and bandwidth consumption.
A proxy-cache server implements Internet object caching. This is a way to store
requested Internet objects (i.e., data available via HTTP, FTP, and other protocols) on a
server closer to the user's network than on the remote site. Typically the proxy-cache
server eliminates the need to re-download Internet objects over the available Internet
connection when several users attempt to access the same web site simultaneously.
The web site’s contents are available in the cache (server memory or disk) and quickly
accessible over the LAN rather than the slower Internet link.
The CyberGuard SG appliance’s web cache may also be configured to pass off web transation requests or responses to a third-party ICAP server for processing, using its ICAP client. This is typically used to integrate a third-party virus scanning, content filtering or complete CSM solution, such as WebWasher
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| SKU | Base Product |
| SG720-12-US | This appliance includes 90 days of 24 x 7 support and 1 year of email support and advance replacement hardware warranty service with the one-time option to extend the hardware support to a total of 3 years. |
| SKU | Tech Support Upgrade and Renewal - 12 Months |
| SGTS-SG720-12-A | Upgrade and Renewal: SnapGear 24/7 phone and email Support and Maintenance, SG720, 12 Months, (does not include HW warranty extension) |
| SKU | Hardware Warranty Extension - 24 months |
| SGHM-SG720-EXT-24 | One-Time Hardware Warranty Extension, SG720, 24 Mon. (Must be registered before the initial 12 month warranty expires) |
| SKU | SnapGear Subscriptions |
| TRSG-SG720-12 | SnapGear TrustedSource Subscription, SG720, 12 Months |
| WWSG-SG720-12 | Webwasher URL Filtering Subscription, SG720, 12 Months |
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