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Sonar Internet Total Control (ITC) Appliance Series

Blue Reef's Internet Total Control hardware appliance provides the full suite of high performance appliances to protect, secure, filter, and report on your Internet activities in real time.

Overview

ITC - Internet Total Control Appliance

Sonar™ ITC series addresses the needs for a unified solution which functions as the edge security control, as well as outbound content filtering controls, quota management and Internet caching.

Secure your network

Secure your network from malicious threats with a comprehensive unified threat management (UTM) gateway solution with hardened Linux SPI firewall, gateway anti-virus scanning of web and email content, anti-malware, anti-spyware, anti-phishing and denial of service (DoS) protection.

Segment your network

Segment your network ensuring sensitive information and mission critical applications are protected from internal threats with flexible VLAN partitioning and dynamic policy routing.

Control visitor and remote access

Control visitor and remote access with IPSec site-to-site and client-to-site VPN, remote file services, and guest Internet access with self ticketing, auto time-bomb and full reporting.

Optimise your network access by shaping traffic based on group policies

Balance your network

Balance your network in active/active or active/passive configuration for maximum Internet up-time

Prioritise and guarantee services

Prioritise and guarantee services for different groups of users and their applications ensuring costly Internet resources are deployed where and when needed.

Filter content

Filter content differently according to the needs of different users to comply with your duty of care

Monitor and report

Monitor and report on all forms of Internet and email traffic including web forums, Google Images™, wikis and social networking sites in real time

Prevent exposure to unsolicited, commercial and inappropriate emails

Prevent exposure to unsolicited, commercial and inappropriate emails with industry leading recurrent-pattern detection anti-spam technology from Commtouch™

Reduce Internet usage

Reduce Internet usage by caching repetitive browsing and balancing your traffic across multiple Internet links making the most of your costly Internet services

Measure usage of Internet per user

Measure usage of Internet per user by applying quota and billing controls

Synchronise using LDAP

Synchronise using LDAP to support your group based identity policies in Microsoft™, Novell™ or Mac OS™ environments

ITC Supported Platforms

The ITC Series can be delivered as an appliance, a virtual appliance or as a managed service.

Platforms	Internet Security	Internet Filtering	Internet Mobility
Sonar ITC	*	*	(optional)
ITC-MSP	*	*	(optional)

Features

Features of the Sonar ITC Appliance Series

Blue Reef ITC provides all the tools you need to manage Internet security, extended filtering, and reporting and monitoring.

Authentication & Identity Integration

Authentication (LDAP)

NTLM/NTLM-Terminal Services

Multi-platform agent

Active Directory pass-through authentication

Secure token

Captive portal

Browser (Header) based

Ticket based (temporary access)

IP/MAC address

Internet Security

Stateful inspection firewall

Reverse proxy

Group policy based routing

Link aggregation (3G included)

High Availability (Active/Active/Passive)

DoS protection

Anti-malware

Group based packet shaping (QoS)

Network Address Translation (NAT)

VLAN support

IPSec VPN & Remote Access

Bandwidth Monitoring

Live User network monitoring

Network traffic reporting

Anti-spam

Internet Filtering

Web filtering proxy

Outgoing mail filtering

Quota management

Billing

Internet caching

Summary reporting

Cyber safety reporting

Statistical page analysis

Page censorship using regular expressions

Anonymous proxy rule based blocking

URL categorisation service

Exception management

MySonar™ self-service reporting

Real-time web traffic monitoring

Specifications

Performance Metrics	Small Org	Medium Org	Large Org	S-Cluster

Hardware Physical Dimensions & System Specifications
Operating System	Sonar OS	Sonar OS	Sonar OS	Sonar OS
Interfaces 10/100/1000	4	6	8	Balanced
Virtual Appliance Supported Platforms
Supported Hypervisors	VMWare ESX, ESXi, Citrix XenServer
Network Performance Metrics
Firewall throughput p/s*	1Gbps	2Gbps	4Gbps	4Gbps +
Max User Database	2000	3000	20000+	20000+
Recommended Capacity Planning
Number of Students	201 – 1000	201 - 1000	1001 -20000	20000+
Number of Devices **	101 - 400	101 - 800	Up to 3000	3000+
Concurrent Devices **	Up to 150	Up to 500	Up to 1000	1000+