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Today, people work more remotely. Partners, vendors and consultants play a vital role in daily operations. Mobile workers demand more secure access to more resources from more remote devices and platforms than ever before. Global networks connect employees, partners and customers over multiple Internet, intranet and VoIP channels. Yet even the smallest organization now competes in a global marketplace. SonicWALL provides a wide range of scalable secure remote access and secure remote support solutions to fit every size of business and budget.

SC Magazine on the SSL-VPN 2000: "Easy to manage with many features at a low cost." read the review »

SC Magazine on the EX-1600: “High-powered performance with many great features.” read the review »

Product Lines Comparison
Capacity
SonicWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • Up to 200 concurrent users.
SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN - Enterprise
  • Up to 2,000 concurrent users per device.
  • Tens of thousands possible when load balancing several units.
Granular Access Control
 SonicWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • User & Group, Source IP, Service/Port
SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN - Enterprise
  • User & Group, Source IP, Device Identity, Device Integrity, Service/Port, Destination URL, Host Name/IP Address, IP Range, Subnet, Domain, Citrix Server Farm, Time-of-Day
Mobile Device Support
SonicWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • N/A
SonicWALL SSL VPN - Enterprise
  • Agent-based access for Windows Mobile devices
  • Browser-based access for wide range of mobile device browsers (including Symbian, Blackberry and WAP browsers)
Endpoint Control: Client Interrogation
SonicWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • N/A
SonicWALL SSL VPN - Enterprise
  • Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Windows mobile device interrogation (Detect Anti-Virus, Personal Firewall, Anti-Spyware, Running Applications, Client Side Certificates, Mapped Directories, Registry Keys, Resident Files, Windows Domain, Windows O/S)
Endpoint Control: Session Protection
SonicWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • Cache cleaner (Microsoft Windows only)
SonicWALL SSL VPN - Enterprise
  • Cache cleaner (multi-platform)
  • Aventail Secure Desktop (virtual desktop)
Remote Support*
SONICWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • Support for up to a maximum of 4 concurrent technician tunnels on the SSL-VPN 2000 platform
  • Support for up to a maximum of 25 concurrent technician tunnels on the SSL-VPN 4000 platform
SONICWALL Aventail SSL VPN - ENTERPRISE
  • N/A
Terminal Emulation over SSL VPN
SonicWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • Web-based access to Citrix servers, Windows Terminal Services applications for Windows, Macintosh and Linux devices.
SonicWALL SSL VPN - Enterprise
  • Web based access to Citrix servers or server groups, Windows Terminal Services applications for Windows, Macintosh and Linux devices. Additional support for AttachmateWRQ host access to mainframe applications
High Availability
SonicWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • N/A
SonicWALL SSL VPN - Enterprise
  • Active/Active stateful failover, integrated load balancing for up to 2 nodes, with external load balancer up to 8 nodes
Capacity Spike Licenses
SonicWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • Not necessary due to unrestricted licensing structure
SonicWALL SSL VPN - Enterprise
  • Ability to temporarily increase capacity
Central Reporting and Management
SonicWALL SSL VPN - SMB
  • SonicWALL Global Management System support, SonicWALL ViewPoint support, Syslog support
SonicWALL SSL VPN - Enterprise
  • SNMP integration, Aventail Advanced Reporting, Syslog support

SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN Appliances for the Enterprise

With more employees, partners and customers connected over a more widely-distributed and mobile enterprise, there is greater demand for a single, centrally-managed gateway to control access to network resources. SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPNs provide complete application access with full security, control of the end point and unified policy management. Easy to use and control, SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPNs increase productivity by providing employees and partners with secure, clientless access to the resources they need from any device, anywhere, with unmatched security. SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPNs also lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by eliminating difficult IPSec VPN deployments and constant support calls.

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Deployment

Type & Size of Deployment Environment

Concurrent User License

EX-750

Small to mid-size companies, enterprise departments or a remote facility

10 to 50

EX-1600

Mid-size companies or enterprise departments

25 to 250

EX-2500

Enterprises with hundreds or thousands or remote access users

50 to 2,000

Detect Features

more infoBasic End Point Control (EPC) Interrogation

Advanced EPC (Anti-Virus, Personal Firewall, Anti-Spyware)

Aventail Secure Desktop

EX-750

EX-1600

EX-2500

Protect Features

Allow, Deny & Quarantine Zones based on EPC Interrogation

Granular Access Control
(User & Group, Source IP, Service/Port, Destination URL, Host Name/IP Address, IP Range, Subnet, Domain)

Advanced Reporting

EX-750

EX-1600

EX-2500

Connect Features

more infoWorkPlace Portal

more infoWorkPlace Mobile
(optimized portal for mobile phone browsers)

more infoNative Access Modules
(Citrix and Windows Terminal Services)

more infoHost Access Modules
(Terminal Emulation Access)

more infoConnect Tunnel
(Windows, Mac & Linux access to TCP- or UDP-based applications)

more infoConnect Mobile
(Windows Mobile)

EX-750

EX-1600

EX-2500

SonicWALL SSL VPN Appliances for Small to Medium Business (SMB)

SonicWALL SSL VPN appliances can provide small and mid-size organizations with easy-to-use, secure and affordable remote access and remote support solutions that requires no pre-installed client software. Utilizing a standard Web browser, authorized users such as employees, contractors, partners and customers, can easily and securely access e-mail, files, intranets, Web and legacy applications and remote desktops from any location.

Legend

Deployment

Type & Size of Deployment Environment

Recommended Maximum
Number of Concurrent Remote Users

Concurrent Remote User License

more infoMaximum number of
Virtual Assist* Concurrent
Technician Connections

SSL-VPN 200

Small organizations up to 50 employees

10

Unrestricted

N/A

SSL-VPN 2000

Mid-size organizations up to 500 employees

50

Unrestricted

4

SSL-VPN 4000

Mid-size organizations over 500 employees.

200

Unrestricted

25

Key Features

more infoTokenless Two-factor Authentication

Vasco Support

more infoNetExtender:
Mac & Linux Clients

Port-based policies

RSA Support

Citrix (ICA) Support

NetExtender: Support for Multiple IP Ranges and Routes

Optional Client Certificate Support

Graphical Usage Monitoring

Option to Create System Backup

Reverse Proxy: OWA Premium Version and Lotus Domino Web Access 7.0

RADIUS Test Function

Active Directory Groups Support

more infoVirtual Host & Domain Name Support

FileShares Java Applet

more infoDiagnostics: DNS Lookup and Traceroute

SonicWALL® Virtual Assist*

Reverse Proxy: Java Applet and Flash Support

Customizable Logos, Certificates & IP Addresses per Portal

HTTP(S) caching

Remote GZIP compression

SSL-VPN 200

SSL-VPN 2000

SSL-VPN 4000

*Requires Virtual Assist, a licensed add-on module and available only for SSL-VPN 2000 and SSL-VPN 4000 appliances. Virtual Assist is licensed based on the number of concurrent technician tunnels.

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