Collax Enhances Security Gateway Bandwidth Management

By Brian Turner

Collax has announced expanded bandwidth management of the Collax Security Gateway, a Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution providing Web, email and network security.

The UTM solution in Version 4.0.10 prioritizes and guarantees bandwidths in Virtual Private Networks giving Voice-over-IP (VoIP), and other business applications including ERP systems, priority in the VPN tunnel.

The Collax Security Gateway 4.0.10 enables VoIP in company networks. Its Tagged-VLAN technology (according to 802.1q) separates data packages from voice packages, guaranteeing the security of internet telephony. The system uses Stateful Inspection to analyse the SIP-based Voice-Traffic.

This is combined with Traffic Shaping to ensure that the voice packages are filtered at the right part of the gateways and given priority in the VPN tunnel over any other data streams. A superior quality of real time voice transfer across data networks can therefore be achieved without downtime.

The Collax Security Gateway can be downloaded free of charge for 5 users and less from www.collax.com. The entry-level model - Collax Security Gateway 40 - with a pre-configured plug-and-play appliance, is available at $1420 for one year and ten users or $1895 for three years.

The software Collax Security Gateway version for up to ten users is available for $380 and the version for 100 users is available for $1720. The subscription includes all upgrades, updates, security fixes and patches.

Collax is based in Bedford, Massachusetts and has offices in Munich and Freiburg, Germany. For more information, visit www.collax.com.