SonicWALL NSA 250M and 250M Wireless-N high-performance, modular Next-Generation Firewalls offer branch offices and distributed enterprises in-depth frontline security, application and user control, network productivity and optional 802.11 dual-band wireless. The NSA 250M acts as the first line of network defense against viruses, Trojans, key-loggers and other application layer attacks, without compromising network performance. The NSA 250M Series can be extended with a variety of modules to provide deployment flexibility and reduce acquisition and maintenance costs.

Product features.
The NSA 250M Series offers an extensive array of advanced networking and configuration flexibility features in an accessible, affordable platform that is easy to deploy and manage in a wide variety of environments.

Distributed network security.
The NSA 250M Series provides anti-malware, intrusion prevention and web content filtering at branch offices without compromising performance at those locations.
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Application control and visualization.
IT administrators can granularly view and control bandwidth-consuming and potentially dangerous application traffic over the network, even between widely distributed locations.
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WAN acceleration.
Network productivity can increase because IT administrators can identify and throttle or block unauthorized, unproductive and non-work-related appliances and websites such as Facebook® or YouTube® and optimize WAN traffic when integrated with SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) solutions.
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Gateway Anti-Malware and Intrusion Prevention.
Gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware and intrusion prevention provide high-performance protection against millions of unique pieces of malware with near zero latency and no file size limitations. This provides a first layer of defense and stops malware before it can reach systems on your network.
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Virtual Private Networking.
High-performance Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) easily scale to thousands of endpoints and branch offices. And SonicWALL Clean VPN™ technology protects the integrity of both your IPSec and SSL VPN traffic, securing your remote access tunnels and decontaminating the traffic running across it.
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Integrated modules support.
The NSA 250M Series can be extended with a variety of modules, such as T1/E1, DSL and SFP Modules, to provide deployment flexibility and additional failover capabilities. By consolidating equipment, the modular solution reduces acquisition and maintenance costs.
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High performance.
SonicWALL’s patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® engine1 combined with the NSA 250M dual-core security platform is capable of inspecting hundreds of thousands of connections simultaneously across all ports. With nearly zero latency and without file size limitations, the system provides 130 Mbps of Deep Packet Inspection across 5 GbE copper interfaces.

Platform features.
SonicOS provides key features designed to ensure the security of your network with an intuitive graphical user interface for increased functionality and ease of use.

Deep Packet Inspection firewall.
SonicWALL Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection™ technology scans against multiple application types and protocols to protect against internal and external threats at both the application layer and the network layer.2
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Deep Packet Inspection for SSL Encrypted Traffic (DPI-SSL).
DPI-SSL transparently decrypts, inspects and re-encrypts SSL encrypted traffic to allow security services to be applied to all traffic that traverses SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewalls.

SSL VPN remote access.
Integrated SSL VPN technology enables clientless, remote access to email, files, intranets, and applications from a variety of platforms. An SSLVPN client can also be automatically pushed out to the client and auto-configured to provide secure layer 3 connectivity.
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Clean Wireless.
SonicWALL firewalls can be extended with secure wireless access points, SonicPoints, to provide seamless and secure 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless networks protected with the SonicWALL Clean Wireless technology.
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Powerful reporting.
Historical reporting on user activity is available through SonicWALL Analyzer™ software and real-time application analysis through powerful visualization tools.
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Secure Network Optimization.
Stay ahead of today’s constantly evolving landscape of threats and application-related issues with an advanced security platform that consolidates SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall features for enterprises along with WAN acceleration for distributed offices to maximize security and control with minimum network latency.
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Business continuity.
Your network will continue to operate without interruption even if there is a hardware or software failure with Active/Passive failover. Stateful synchronization across the appliances enables failover without interruption to existing network traffic and VPN tunnels.
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Centralized Policy Management
The SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS®) provides flexible, powerful and intuitive tools to manage configurations, view real-time monitoring metrics and integrate policy and compliance reporting, all from a central location.

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Content filtering.
SonicWALL Content Filtering Service blocks multiple categories of objectionable web content and provides the ideal combination of control and flexibility to ensure the highest levels of productivity and protection.
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Gateway Security Services.
SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Intrusion Prevention, and Application Intelligence and Control Service delivers intelligent, real-time network security protection against sophisticated application layer and content-based attacks, including viruses, spyware, worms, and more. Configurable tools prevent data leakage and enable visualization of network traffic.

Product Details:

• Bundled Services 1 year GAV/AS/IPS/Application Intelligence Service/Content Filtering Service and
• Dynamic Support 24X7
  
• Device Type Security appliance
  
• Height 1.5 in
  
• Height (Rack Units) 1U
  
• Weight 3 lbs
  
• Width 10.5 in
  
• Expansion Slot(s) 1 CompactFlash Card ¦ 1 (total) / 1 (free) x expansion slot
  
• Interfaces 5 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45 ¦ 1 x management - console ¦ 2 x USB - 4 pin USB Type A
  
• IP Telephony
  
• IP Telephony Features VoIP gatekeeper support, VoIP outbound bandwidth management
  
• VoIP Protocols SIP, H.323 v3, H.323 v4, H.323 v1, H.323 v2, H.323 v5
  
• Compliant Standards CE, FCC Class A certified, UL, TUV GS, VCCI, C-Tick, cUL, NOM, CB, MIC, RoHS, FIPS 140-2, WEEE, EAL 4+
  
• MTBF 23 years
  
• Authentication Method Secure Shell (SSH), RADIUS, X.509 certificates, LDAP, internal user database, Active Directory, XAUTH authentication
  
• Capacity Connection / user qty : 110000 ¦ DPI connections : 64000 ¦ New sessions per second : 3000 ¦ Authenticated users (internal database) : 150 ¦ Virtual interfaces (VLANs) : 35 ¦ VPN tunnels (site-to-site) : 50
  
• Compliant Standards IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1p, X.509
  
• Connectivity Technology Wired
  
• Data Link Protocol Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
  
• Data Transfer Rate 1 Gbps
  
• Encryption Algorithm DES, Triple DES, MD5, IKE, SHA-1, PKI, 128-bit AES, 192-bit AES, 256-bit AES