A Leader in the next-generation firewall technology, Ingate systems proudly offers the ingate Firewall 1600 - a powerful appliance that fits the needs of organisations with high demands for capacity, throughput and reliability. Like all firewalls from Ingate, the Firewall 1600 offers the ability to use realtime communications such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) based on the session initiation protocol (SIP). Today many companies are looking to use VoIP and other realtime IP communications. Ingate products meet the special requirements for such usage by fully supporting SIP - the standardized Internet Protocol for live person-to-person IP communications. With ingate, enterprises can use VoIP and other live communications on the LAN and globally via the Internet or Private IP networks.

The Ingate Firewall 1600 is only 1 U high, fitting easily into an ever-more-crowded network design. It boasts six interfaces, two of which can be used at Gigabit speed. The Firewall 1600 supports up to 360 simultaneous RTP sessions (e.g. VoIP calls). In addition, the Firewall 1600 includes a new display that communicates its status. Included with the Ingate Firewall 1600 are ten SIP user licenses that can be used for the registration of SIP users on the built-in SIP registrar.

Five SIP traversal licenses are also included, allowing up to five calls to traverse the firewall simultaneously. Additional SIP user licenses and SIP traversal licenses can be purchased at any time. The Ingate Firewall 1600 is fully featured, supporting stateful inspection and packet filtering with rules defined and maintained by the network security administrator utilizing the graphical html based user interface.

Ingate Firewalls include an encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN) termination module. In addition to the complete SIP support, Ingate Firewalls have a proxy for all standard protocols, including TCP, UDP, FTP, and DHCP

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Ingate offers several add-on modules that allow you to tailor the Firewalls to meet the specific demands of your business. Ingate’s Quality of Service (QoS) software module sets different priorities for different kinds of data and allocates bandwidth for different purposes – for instance, giving priority to live communications. Ingate’s Remote SIP Connectivity software module works seamlessly to extend the SIP capabilities of the enterprise to employees working remotely (home office workers, road warriors, etc.). Remote SIP Connectivity manages the traversal of the remote NAT from a central firewall and also includes a STUN server. The Ingate Firewall 1600 can also be upgraded with a crypto accelerator card, making the VPN even faster and relieving some pressure on the main processor.