Net-Gateway Appliance Platform Overview

Forefront Optimized "Turn-Key" Appliance Solution

Iron Networks Forefront appliances are purpose-built, high performance hardware devices integrated with Iron Networks designed Oneface system management tools and Microsoft Forefront Edge Security Software Solutions.

Security Hardened Appliance Platforms for Microsoft Forefront Network Edge Solution Delivery

Our Net-Gateway appliance platforms for Microsoft Forefront Security solutions are designed for organizations that want an integrated leading edge hardware, security and software service offering from Microsoft on an optimized hardware platform. These platforms offer best-of-breed Microsoft Forefront Edge security packaged with Iron Networks’s, security hardened system, performance tuned platform, value added OneFace technology, and world-class support.

Iron Networks powered system and hardware management software provides a complete integrated solution for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) and Direct Access (DA) edge security software suites. We have net Gateway models that can be deployed either as standalone units, or as fully redundant, highly available arrays. Our standard business edition appliances are deployed as a standalone device and enterprise edition appliances can be deployed as a standalone device or high-availability (HA) devices with network load balancing (NLB) in a large clustered array for optimal service resiliency.

Purpose-Built for Optimum Performance and System Reliability

Iron Networks offers a wide range of hardware configurations, each of the models are pre-configured with most optimized hardware components and system management tools to meet our customers unique business requirements. Configurations are fine tuned to deliver various levels of system performance, capacity, scalability and availability required to meet the requirements of small to large size business, small to large size enterprise and branch offices.

Iron Networks platforms running Microsoft Forefront Edge Security systems provide the security and management benefits of special purpose hardware products, and provide the familiar management interfaces of other Microsoft technologies. Security appliances often have special purpose hardware specific to network security. Appliance products running Microsoft Embedded Edge Security technologies have the following unique advantages:

The Net-Gateway Platform Appliance Advantage

Each security appliance has various software and hardware components installed and integrated. This configuration is then carefully tuned and hardened to maximize the security posture of each system. This hardening is exhaustive, costly and difficult to provide in general IT hardware and software only implementations, but imperative on edge security devices.

Iron Networks has the lowest total cost of ownership as compared to traditional software alternatives. The Iron Networks appliance-based architecture eliminates many of the costs of traditional systems management including software and hardware procurement, installation, off-site training, and the resources required for ongoing upgrades, system maintenance and technical support. Our appliance advantage offers security hardened configurations for smooth “Out-Of-the-Box” experience.

Iron Networks delivers Integrated “Turnkey” Appliance Solutions:

Iron Networks Networks, an ISO 9001:2000 company, is a provider of mission critical network edge security infrastructure solutions. Unlike alternatives that are simply based on proprietary or general-purpose server hardware, our appliances are designed for highest reliability, optimized for maximum performance, and manufactured to exact quality specifications. You can trust Iron Networks Net-Gateway appliances to deliver the most reliable and comprehensive Forefront solutions.