Experience unparalleled value and performance with the Netgate® 8300 Security Gateway with pfSense® Plus software. The Netgate 8300 is tailored to medium to large companies, xSP, MSP/MSSP with high connectivity and stability requirements. This device is enterprise-ready and features Netgate’s most expandable chassis and hot-swappable power supplies, ensuring mission-critical reliability and easy maintenance.

This security gateway features an impressive Intel® Xeon® D-1733NT processor with 2.0 GHz, 8 cores and 16 threads and Intel AVX-512 for exceptional firewall and VPN performance. The Netgate 8300 leverages the power of Intel AVX-512 to accelerate VPN operations, increase throughput and reduce overhead, while optimizing core firewall functions for improved network security and performance. With four 10G SFP+ ports, four 1G SFP ports and three 2.5G RJ-45 ports, as well as expandability to 25G and 100G ports via PCIe cards, the Netgate 8300 future-proofs your network infrastructure and scales effortlessly with your business.

The Netgate 8300 maximizes your investment by delivering high performance throughput at an incredibly competitive cost per gigabit. Compared to the 1541, it offers a remarkable 47% increase in firewall performance, a 100% improvement in VPN and routing throughput and a 175% increase in port density.

This compact 1U enclosure optimizes space efficiency in server rooms and data centers and is ideal for mission-critical deployments that require robust high-availability options and hotswap dual-power capability. Redefine your network standards by delivering superior scalability, performance and cost efficiency that exceed industry expectations with the Netgate 8300 Security Gateway.

pfSense Plus software provides the performance, flexibility, reliability and business assurance expected from leading secure networking applications:

• Up to 10 Gbps performance
• Flexible 3rd-party application options
• Traditional management mechanisms
• Proven reliability
• Complete business assurance support

All at a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives, pfSense Plus software is the perfect answer. Popular pfSense Plus use cases include load balancing, traffic shaping, captive portal, UTM device, DNS/DHCP Server, IDS/IPS, transparency caching proxy, web content filtering, failover WAN, and much more.

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PRODUCT FEATURES

LOW TOTAL COSTS

• No artificial limits or add-ons are required to make your system fully functional.
• No additional usage or feature-based pricing. Enjoy unlimited users, unlimited firewall rules, unlimited IPsec tunnels, dual WAN, etc.
• Low power consumption to save money.
• This system is designed for a long service life.

GROWS WITH THEM

• From Firewall to Unified Threat Management, get all the security features you need to protect your home or business.
• Flexible configuration and support for multi-WAN, high availability, VPN, load balancing, reporting and monitoring, etc.
• Add optional packages such as Snort or Suricata for IDS/IPS and network security monitoring, Squid for optimized content delivery and SquidGuard for anti-spam/anti-phishing and URL filtering.
• Maximum active connections: 8,000,000

SIMPLE GUI MANAGEMENT

• Manage pfSense Plus settings via the web-based GUI
• No fiddling around with a command line interface or typing in arcane commands

SECURE REMOTE ACCESS

• Connect between your offices via encrypted virtual private networks (VPN), let mobile employees establish a secure connection or connect to the cloud
• Use the integrated Amazon VPC wizard to easily establish VPN connections with your Amazon EC2 cloud

BEST SUITED FOR:

• Medium to large organizations and companies
• Enterprises
• Co-location, use cases with high availability
• Service providers and managed service providers

SOFTWARE FEATURES:

pfSense Plus software is a powerful firewall, router and VPN solution that leverages a number of highly-regarded open-source projects. The software competes effectively with far more expensive, commercial alternatives and is used by hundreds of thousands of businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies all over the world. Leading secure-networking features and capabilities include:

• Ad blocker (pfBlockerNG)
• Captive Portal
• CARP / HA
• DNS Server
• DHCP Server
• HTTP transparent / web / reverse proxy (Squid)
• IP / Country block list (pfBlocker)
• IDS/IPS
• Packet capture / inspection
• Port forwarding
• QOS / rate limiters
• Software load balancer (HA Proxy)
• Traffic monitoring
• Traffic logging, statistics, and graphs
• Traffic shaping
• VLAN
• Wake-on-LAN
• Website blocker (pfBlocker)

Learn more about the power of pfSense Plus software here.