Stefan Mileschin

ZyXEL's Unified Threat Management (UTM) systems have been quite popular in the SMB market, thanks to their attractive pricing and excellent customer support (as evidenced in reviews on various e-tailer sites). By providing firewall, VPN and security services in a single product, the UTM lineup gives SMB IT administrators an integrated security solution that can even span distributed office locations.

ZyXEL is introducing 7 new products in this market segment today under the USG lineup. These are classified under the Advanced Series and Performance Series. While the former targets SMBs with up to 100 users, the latter is meant to support up to 5 - 10 users. UTM devices have generally suffered from greatly reduced throughput when security services are enabled, and the new models seem to have addressed them. In addition to a unified management interface for the firewall, intrusion detection features, anti-virus (Kaspersky), content filtering and application control, the USG units also include a built-in WLAN controller (some of the USG units also come with Wi-Fi radios).

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