Tired of trying to control the abuse of Internet in your business? Paying enormous bandwidth charges for repeated downloads? Updating rules on the popular hardware firewall to keep up with rising threats? Then, Exreal’s Gatekeeper appliance is for you.
A Software appliance that turns your PC into a Powerful Hardware appliance
Exreal Gatekeeper is a custom built software appliance, which can convert your existing PC or server into a full fledged Firewall/VPN/Proxy/Router and Internet Access device, with support for multiple DSL/WAN/Fiber Links and LAN Links.
Infinitely Scalable
Because, Exreal Gatekeeper is a software appliance, it can scale infinitely to handle any amount of traffic, or number of WAN/LAN links. Just add more network cards or upgrade your PC or server with more RAM.
Virtualizable
Don’t want to dedicate a server for it? Go virtual. Exreal Gatekeeper is virtualization ready to be run under a multitude of virtualization platforms
Fully Managed
You don’t need to worry about keeping the Exreal Gatekeeper updated, ever, learning how to manage it or need a security consultant because, the Exreal Gatekeeper appliance comes with a renewable annual management service. Our consultants will routinely upgrade the appliance software, web blacklists and provide you with support for tweaking/changing firewall rules according to your business needs.
It’s Robust
Exreal Gatekeeper is built on industry standard architecture, and is powered by Unix, and is meant for a 24×7 operation. Our current clients use the Gatekeeper over multiple networks with high up-times and relability.
It’s Customizable and built to run your way
With a plug-and-play architecture, Exreal Gatekeeper offers a range of features, each selectable and customizable to suit your business. Run it only as a firewall or a router or a VPN server or all it, or add anything later. It’s easy. And if there is something else you need to add-in that’s not currently featured, we can even custom build it for you; to any xtent
Currently, Exreal Gatekeeper is only available to the clients of our consulting services. The pricing for Exreal Gatekeeper is built on the features selected and the support level required. For further information, please contact us.
Features
- Multi-WAN: Where others stop at support one or two WAN links, our appliance can scale upto any number of WAN links. What’s more, it can use the WAN links for load-balancing or failover automatically, keeping your Internet running at all times.
- Multi-LAN / VLAN: Want to use one device for multiple internal networks? Gatekeeper works on multiple LAN networks, upto 256 of them. If you use VLAN’s Gatekeeper can also work it.
- Firewall: Industry standard protection based on IPtable.
- VPN: Three of the most common VPN servers are bundled in – OpenVPN, IPSEC and PPTP. Gatekeeper can securely provide VPN connectivity to your roaming users or connect to your branch office for a secure site-to-site VPN.
- Proxy Server: Built-in Caching proxy server ensures you are getting maximum performance out of your bandwidth.
- QoS: Need to ensure you have bandwidth available to run your VPN, Skype or VOIP application? QoS ensures bandwidth overruns don’t happen and you always have bandwidth.
- Logging: All access via the Gatekeeper appliance is logged, access proxy reports to know, which sites are being visited and what is being downloaded. Exreal consultants can also access the logs to know if you are under threat from outside or inside attacks and alert you.
- Web accelerator: How many times do you find your network users downloading the same files again again? Windows updates, or anti-virus updates? The web accelerator caches such downloads and serves them locally, saving you bandwidth and ensuring instant access after a file is downloaded once.
- Blacklist: Blacklists make sure your users cannot visit sites they are not intended to. Exreal Gatekeeper is shipped with an exhaustive list of blacklists, categorized into categories from hacking, webmail to adult sites, with over 1,00,000 sites and we add thousands of them every month. Exreal consultants automatically update your blacklist each month.
- Anti-virus: A built-in Antivirus engine scans each Website and download to ensure your users are not downloading virus or trojan infected files. Updates to the Anti-virus are automatically done.