Software Features

Firewall

• ICSA-certified firewall (certification in progress)
• Routing and transparent (bridge) modes
• Stateful packet inspection
• User-aware policy enforcement
• SIP/H.323 NAT traversal
• ALG support for customized ports
• Protocol anomaly detection and protection
• Traffic anomaly detection and protection
• Flooding detection and protection
• DoS/DDoS protection

IPv6 Support

• IPv6 Ready gold logo (certification in progress)
• Dual stack
• IPv4 tunneling (6rd and 6to4 transition tunnel)
• IPv6 addressing
• DNS
• DHCPv6
• Bridge
• VLAN
• PPPoE
• Static routing
• Policy routing
• Session control
• Firewall and ADP
• IPSec VPN
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP)
• Application intelligence and optimization
• Content filtering
• Anti-virus, anti-malware
• Anti-spam

IPSec VPN

• ICSA-certified IPSec VPN (certification in progress)
• Encryption: AES (256-bit), 3DES and DES
• Authentication: SHA-2 (512-bit), SHA-1 and MD5
• Key management: manual key, IKEv1 and IKEv2 with EAP
• Perfect forward secrecy (DH groups) support 1, 2, 5
• IPSec NAT traversal
• Dead peer detection and relay detection
• PKI (X.509) certificate support
• VPN concentrator
• Simple wizard support
• VPN auto-reconnection
• VPN High Availability (HA): load-balancing and failover
• L2TP over IPSec
• GRE and GRE over IPSec
• NAT over IPSec
• ZyXEL VPN client provisioning

SSL VPN

• Supports Windows and Mac OS X
• Supports full tunnel mode
• Supports 2-step authentication
• Customizable user portal

Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP)

• Routing and transparent (bridge) mode
• Signature-based and behavior-based scanning
• Automatic signature updates
• Customizable protection profile
• Customized signatures supported
• SSL (HTTPS) inspection support

Application Intelligence and Optimization

• Granular control over the most important applications
• Identifies and controls over 3,000 applications and behaviors
• Supports over 15 application categories
• Application bandwidth management
• Supports user authentication
• Real-time statistics and reports
• SSL (HTTPS) inspection support

Anti-Virus

• Supports Kaspersky anti-virus signatures
• Identifies and blocks over 650,000 viruses
• Stream-based anti-virus engine
• HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 protocol support
• Automatic signature updates
• No file size limitation
• SSL (HTTPS) inspection support

Anti-Spam

• Transparent mail interception via SMTP and POP3 protocols
• Configurable POP3 and SMTP ports
• Sender-based IP reputation filter
• Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) technology
• Zero-hour virus outbreak protection
• X-Header support
• Blacklist and whitelist support
• Supports DNSBL checking
• Spam tag support
• Statistics report

Content Filtering

• Social media filtering
• Malicious Website filtering
• URL blocking and keyword blocking
• Blacklist and whitelist support
• Blocks java applets, cookies and ActiveX
• Dynamic, cloud-based URL filtering database
• Unlimited user license support
• Customizable warning messages and redirection URL
• SSL (HTTPS) inspection support

Unified Security Policy

• Unified policy management interface
• Supported UTM features: anti-virus, antispam, IDP, content filtering, application intelligence, firewall (ACL)
• 3-tier configuration: object-based, profilebased, policy-based
• Policy criteria: zone, source and destination IP address, user, time

 WLAN Management

• ZyXEL AP Controller (APC) 1.0 compliant
• Client RSSI threshold to prevent sticky clients
• IEEE 802.1x authentication
• Captive portal Web authentication
• Customizable captive portal page
• RADIUS authentication
• Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) wireless QoS
• CAPWAP discovery protocol

Mobile Broadband

• WAN connection failover via 3G and 4G* USB modems
• Auto fallback when primary WAN recovers
  * 4G USB modem support available in future firmware upgrades

 Networking

• Routing mode, bridge mode and hybrid mode
• Ethernet and PPPoE
• NAT and PAT
• VLAN tagging (802.1Q)
• Virtual interface (alias interface)
• Policy-based routing (user-aware)
• Policy-based NAT (SNAT)
• Dynamic routing (RIPv1/v2 and OSPF)
• DHCP client/server/relay
• Dynamic DNS support
• WAN trunk for more than 2 ports
• Per host session limit
• Guaranteed bandwidth
• Maximum bandwidth
• Priority-bandwidth utilization
• Bandwidth limit per user
• Bandwidth limit per IP

Authentication

• Local user database
• Microsoft Windows Active Directory integration
• External LDAP/RADIUS user database
• XAUTH, IKEv2 with EAP VPN authentication
• Web-based authentication
• Forced user authentication (transparent authentication)
• IP-MAC address binding
• SSO (Single Sign-On) support

Device High Availability (HA)

• Active-passive failover mode
• Device failure detection and notification
• Supports ICMP and TCP ping check
• Link monitoring
• Configuration auto-sync

System Management

• Role-based administration
• Multiple administrator logins
• Multi-lingual Web GUI (HTTPS and HTTP)
• Command line interface (console, Web console, SSH and TELNET)
• SNMP v2c (MIB-II)
• System configuration rollback
• Firmware upgrade via FTP, FTP-TLS and Web GUI
• Dual firmware images

Logging and Monitoring

• Comprehensive local logging
• Syslog (to up to 4 servers)
• Email alerts (to up to 2 servers)
• Real-time traffic monitoring
• Built-in daily report
• Advanced reporting with Vantage Report