The SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E5500 is high performance, multiservice network security platform engineered to be the work horse of the enterprise network environment.

Taking advantage of SonicWALL’s re-assembly free deep packet inspection engine and an 8-core processor technology providing parallel traffic processing, the NSA E5500 delivers exceptional deep packet inspection performance for the enterprise network environment.

The NSA E5500 comes standard with eight gigabit copper Ethernet ports for deployment flexibility and includes a management LCD screen for ease of deployment. This solutions offers enterprise network administrators an array of enterprise networking features, designed to provide lowered management complexity, and unrivalled value.

The E-Class NSA Series Provides

Multi-Threat Protection

• Complete UTM Protection with Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Detection / Prevention
• Next Generation Application Firewall
• Content & Application Filtering
• "Clean VPN" Protection

Business Continuity, Reliability & Network Optimisation

• High Availability (HA) with Stateful Failover
• Fault Tolerant and Dual Redundant Power Supplies and Fans (E7500)
• Advanced Routing Services OSPF / RIP
• Business application prioritisation & QoS
• ISP Failover, WAN Redundancy and Load Balancing

Lowered Management Complexity

• Next Generation GUI - SonicOS 5.0
• Complete Network Diagnostic Facilities with Full Packet Capture on board
• Powerful Wizards - Set-up, Firewall Policies, VPN, NAT
• Object-based Management
• Policy-based NAT

Ultimate Flexibility

• Wide range of deployments including, university environments, data centres and distributed networks
• Integrated Wireless Switch Functionality
• 802.1q Virtual LANs for Extending Throughout the Internal Network
• Onboard Quality of Service (QoS) Features