Secure and Always Online Networking for Small- to Medium-sized Businesses

More and more people are relying on smart devices and cloud-based applications for business communications. This means that high network availability is critical for business continuity, more Wi-Fi is demanded in the workplace, and traditional regulatory measures for application usage are obsolete. Without an effective solution to control, optimize and block social, productivity and other Web applications, SMBs risk losing work productivity and exposing company networks to new Web threats.

The new ZyXEL USG Advanced Series are Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) designed to meet the mobility, anti-malware and policy enforcement challenges in SMBs. The integrated WLAN controller offers easy WLAN scalability for the growing demand for Wi-Fi; while WAN and VPN load balancing and failover ensures nonstop business communications. ZyXEL USGs offer industry-leading anti-virus, anti-spam, content filtering and application intelligence technology for effective application optimization and comprehensive network protection.

Always online

The ZyXEL USG Advanced Series offers SMBs high network availability for always online communications. It features multi-WAN load balancing and failover, and a comprehensive mobile broadband USB modem support list for WAN backup. On top of that, the Series supports IPSec load balancing and failover to provide added resiliency for the most mission-critical VPN deployments.

Protection and optimization

The ZyXEL USG Advanced Series provides extensive anti-malware protection and effective control of Web applications—like Facebook, Google Apps and Netflix—with industry-leading firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, content filtering, IDP and application intelligence. These security measures are enhanced with SSL inspection, which helps block threats that are hidden in SSL encrypted connections and facilitates deeper policy enforcement.

Streamlined management

Unified security policy streamlines the configuration of firewall and every security feature to offer faster, easier and more consistent policy management. From a single interface, users can apply all policy criteria to every UTM feature with reduced complexity. The integrated WLAN controller also enables users to management up to 18 APs from a centralized user interface.

More Wi-Fi

Addressing the trend of BYOD, the ZyXEL USG Advanced Series helps SMBs satisfy the Wi-Fi demand for an exploding amount of smart devices. The Series is integrated with a WLAN controller that enables businesses to easily scale up the WLAN and provide Wi-Fi in multiple areas like meeting rooms and guest reception areas.